The press-gang. An unmitigated evil, or the savior of a nation? You decide.
Impressment was nothing new for the Royal Navy. It had been used as early as 1664 as a way of obtaining crews for warships……続きを見る
著者:Peter Leeson
出版社: Princeton University Press
発売日: 2009年03月31日
Pack your cutlass and blunderbuss--it's time to go a-pirating! The Invisible Hook takes readers inside the wily world of late seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century pirates. With swashbuckling ir……続きを見る
Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers command and control.
This doctrinal publication describes a theory and philosophy of……続きを見る
著者:Eric Robinson
出版社: Eric Robinson
発売日: 2012年09月06日
After the tragic death of all the other members of SEAL Team Six, Shawn Bowe and newly reactivated SEAL Dominic Rodriguez must rebuild Team Six from a group of young recruits. While the recruits are……続きを見る
著者:James Brady
出版社: St. Martin's Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年10月30日
James Brady, bestselling war memoirist, and Marine officer in Korea, returns with one of his most memorable works to date--exploring what it means to be a soldier and why Marines fight.
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The first official history of the legendary aircraft carrier that fought in World War II and Vietnam and continues to serve as a major air and space museum in New York City
The USS Intrepid is a war……続きを見る
The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships……続きを見る
This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.
Since the end of the Cold War, Chin……続きを見る
The Naval History and Heritage Command published this history to enhance our understanding of the pivotal role played by the U.S. Seventh Fleet in the Western Pacific from World War II through 2010.……続きを見る
著者:Craig L. Symonds
出版社: Oxford University Press, USA
発売日: 2013年04月15日
There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway. At dawn of June 4, 1942, a rampaging Japanese navy ruled th……続きを見る
Chronicles in compelling detail the historic showdown between the U.S. Air Force and the Navy over the role of carrier aviation in the national security framework of the United States.
The National ……続きを見る
From historys earliest days men have gone down to seaon logs, then boats, and, subsequently, ships. Norman Polmar and Christopher Cavas maneuver in Most Wanted™ style to find the best and worst of t……続きを見る
The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron “fish boat” vanished……続きを見る
A fascinating account of events that took place at the Malabar Coast during the mid-19th Century, including the machinations of the powerful East India Company, the rule of the Moghul, and the activ……続きを見る
On December 24, 1813, Robert Fulton invited a group of friends to his home in New York City. The War of 1812 was in its second year, and the economic effect of the British naval blockade was crushin……続きを見る
著者:L.D. Cross
出版社: Heritage House
発売日: 2012年04月15日
In late 1942, Britain was desperate to win the ongoing Battle of the Atlantic. German U-boats had sunk hundreds of Allied ships containing millions of tons of cargo that was needed to continue the w……続きを見る
著者:Moorise King
出版社: Moorise King
発売日: 2012年09月07日
The USA is under threat from economic terrorists, planning to take over the world via oil and boundless wealth. Only a young, inexperienced team of SEALs can stop them from succeeding in their evil……続きを見る
著者:Eric Grove
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2013年10月08日
This is a comnpendium volume of three Battle Summaries or Naval Staff Histories produced soon after the war by the Naval Historical Branch of the Admiralty. Originally classified and designed for in……続きを見る
著者:Susan Rose
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2012年11月12日
How were medieval navies organised, and how did powerful rulers use them? Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 provides a wealth of information about the strategy and tactics of these early fleets and ……続きを見る
This is the third iteration of the Naval Science & Technology Strategic Plan, and it reflects the evolution of future requirements combined with the fiscal realities of today. We have tightened the ……続きを見る
著者:Robert Kurson
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2004年06月29日
In the tradition of Jon Krakauer’s Into Thin Air and Sebastian Junger’s The Perfect Storm comes a true tale of riveting adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great h……続きを見る
Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual details doctrine, tactics, techniques, and procedures for the conduct of counterintelligenc……続きを見る
Tracing an awe-inspiring oceanic route from Boston, around Cape Horn, to the California coast, Two Years Before the Mast is both a riveting story of adventure and the most eloquent, insightful accou……続きを見る
Alfred von Tirpitz (1849û1930), who joined the Prussian Navy in 1865 as a midshipman, was chiefly responsible for rapidly developing and enlarging the German Navy, especially the High Seas Fleet, fr……続きを見る
Of the many campaigns in the long history of Britain, naval and otherwise, there have been few more momentous than the campaign in the Mediterranean in 1804-5 culminating in the battle of Trafalgar.……続きを見る
With Porter in the Essex
A Story of His Famous Cruise in Southern Waters during the War of 1812
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS
I. Introducing Myself
II. ……続きを見る
著者:John R. Bruning
出版社: MBI Publishing Company
発売日: 2013年06月15日
The Battle of the North Atlantic was the longest continuous military campaign of World War II, running from 1939 until the defeat of Nazi Germany in 1945, though it reached its peak from mid-1940 th……続きを見る
Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
Unknown Waters tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who ma……続きを見る
Bestselling account of the life of a real Horatio Hornblower
The life of Thomas, Lord Cochrane, later 10th Earl of Dundonald, was more extraordinary than that of Nelson, more far fetched than that o……続きを見る
“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”
With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew o……続きを見る