How do we plan under conditions of uncertainty? The perspective of military planners is a key organizing framework: do they see themselves as preparing to administer a peace, or preparing to fight a……続きを見る
The Royal Navy at the start of the twenty-first century had undergone the most remarkable transformation. The Fleet is today the smallest since the start of the Napoleonic wars as surface vessels ar……続きを見る
The bestselling, highly-acclaimed and most famous account of the Falklands War, written by the commander of the British Task Force.
On 5 April 1982, three days after Argentina invaded the Falkland I……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 drill and ceremonies.
This volume, part one of two, covers general drill, commands, ……続きを見る
The story of the only person to attempt to reach the North Pole by balloon, and the golden age of Polar Exploration.
In August 1930 a Norwegian sloop sailing in the Arctic Ocean moored at a remote i……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, linked Footnotes, and linked Index
CONTENTS
Preface
Carlo Zeno: Hero of the Venetian Republic
Sir Francis Drake: Rover and Sea Ran……続きを見る
Six men of the Elite Navy SEAL Team have been specially selected for a mission in Southeast Asia where an extremist organization is set to create a new political party and religion to get rid of the……続きを見る
SEAL Team Six gets another mission from General Richards. This time they had to annihilate a terrorist in Brazil. They infiltrated there and with the help of the other SEAL Teams managed to kill the……続きを見る
著者:Joshua M. Smith
出版社: Goose Lane Editions and the Gregg Centre for the Study of War and Society
発売日: 2012年06月08日
As the 200th anniversary of the War of 1812 approaches, a new chapter in the history of the war is being opened for the first time. Although naval battles raged on the Great Lakes, combat between pr……続きを見る
A NARRATIVE OF THE MUTINY, ON BOARD THE SHIP GLOBE, OF NANTUCKET, IN THE PACIFIC OCEAN, Jan. 1824 AND THE JOURNAL OF A RESIDENCE OF TWO YEARS ON THE MULGRAVE ISLANDS; WITH OBSERVATIONS ON THE MANNER……続きを見る
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analyst……続きを見る
Experiences of captivity in Japanese-occupied Asia varied enormously. Some prisoners of war (POWs) were sent to work in Japan, others to toil on the ‘Death Railway’ between Burma and Thailand. Some ……続きを見る
HUNTER KILLER: a submarine designed to pursue and attack enemy submarines and surface ships using torpedoes.
HUNTER KILLERS will follow the careers of four daring British submarine captains who risk……続きを見る
Victors write history. German Admiral Reinhard Scheer knew this, and wrote his own anyway. In this memoir of World War One, he says, "We are victors and vanquished at one and the same time, and in d……続きを見る
Classic work of history. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His ideas on the importan……続きを見る
著者:Peter Howarth
出版社: Taylor & Francis
発売日: 2006年04月18日
This is a fascinating insight into China’s strategic abilities and ambitions, probing the real depths of its plans for the twenty-first century.
China's Rising Sea Power explores similarities betwee……続きを見る
Explores key events in US maritime history from the 1820s to the end of the Civil War through the biography of the sailing ship William Badger
Taking a biographical approach to his subject, Peter Ku……続きを見る
著者:Timothy S. Wolters
出版社: Johns Hopkins University Press
発売日: 2013年11月01日
This is the first book to explore information management at sea as practiced by the U.S. Navy from the Civil War to World War II.
The brain of a modern warship is its combat information center (CIC)……続きを見る
From the acclaimed World War II writer and author of The Ghost Mountain Boys, an incisive retelling of the key month, July 1944, that won the war in the pacific and ignited a whole new struggle on t……続きを見る
著者:Hugo Hamilton
出版社: HarperCollins Publishers
発売日: 2013年04月11日
Following on from the success of ‘The Speckled People’, Hugo Hamilton's new memoir recounts the summer he spent working at a local harbour in Ireland, at a time of tremendous fear and mistrust.
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著者:Eric Hammel
出版社: Words To Go, Inc.
発売日: 2009年07月23日
Aces Against Japan IIThe American Aces SpeakEric HammelCombat historian Eric Hammel comes through with an engrossing new collection of first-person accounts by American World War II fighter aces.Cou……続きを見る
Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the U.S. Navy's Fletcher class. Admired as they were for their advanced and rakish design, it was their record as w……続きを見る
Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual is a reference on tactics, techniques, and procedures for small unit leaders in the mountai……続きを見る
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents
CONTENTS (abridged list)
PREFACE TO THE FIRST EDITION.
PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.
ILLUSTRATIONS.
CHAPTER I.
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Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this Marine Corps Manual is the basic publication of the United States Marine Corps issued by the Commandant of the Marin……続きを見る
Sea-Birds introduces us to the sea-birds of the North Atlantic, an ocean in which about half the world sea-bird species have been seen at one time or another. This edition is exclusive to newnatural……続きを見る
著者:Noel Mostert
出版社: W. W. Norton & Company
発売日: 2008年07月17日
The thrilling story of Britain's death-struggle with Revolutionary France, wherein Napoleon is checkmated by Nelson's brilliant naval exploits.
In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and f……続きを見る
The frank and revealing memoirs of James Lowry, a young surgeon in Nelson's Mediterranean fleet 1797 to 1804.
This is his hand-written journal, never intended for publication, describing his rugged ……続きを見る
Historians tell us that the United States Navy was founded on October 13, 1775. But was it?
In the Revolutionary War and the War of 1812, the government employed a total 70 warships, carrying 1,800 ……続きを見る
Jean Bart fut l'un des marins les plus célèbres français de tous les temps. Ses exploits maritimes ont traversés les âges et les batailles et les combats qu'il a me……続きを見る