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The Navy of World War II, 1922-1946 comprehensively covers the vessels that defined this momentous 24-year period in U.S. naval history. Beginning with the lean, pared-down navy created by the treat……続きを見る

Classic work of military history and theory. According to Wikipedia: "Alfred Thayer Mahan (September 27, 1840 - December 1, 1914) was a United States Navy officer, geostrategist, and educator. His i……続きを見る

300 million cubic miles of ocean. Stealthy, and deadly, the nuclear submarines of the Royal Navy lie in wait in the depths of the world's oceans, ready to listen, intercept, and attack wherever they……続きを見る

The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astoundin……続きを見る

The most authoritative and intimate portrait written of Horatio Nelson In this epic biography of British history's most celebrated naval commander, acclaimed historian John Sugden separates fact fro……続きを見る

One was called "a tin can on a shingle"; the other, "a half-submerged crocodile." Yet, on a March day in 1862 in Hampton Roads, Virginia, after a five-hour duel, the U.S.S. Monitor and the C.S.S. Vi……続きを見る

Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps publication MCRP contains definitions of Marine Corps terms and a listing of common abbreviations ……続きを見る

In the fall of 1962, the United States and the Soviet Union came as close as they ever would to global nuclear war. Hoping to correct what he saw as a strategic imbalance with the United States, Sov……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 warfighting and the philosophy that distinguishes the U.S. Marine Corps. Chapter One……続きを見る

This new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990. Successful adaptat……続きを見る

This is a comprehensive, up-to-date survey of the U.S. Navy's nuclear propulsion program. Navy warships are deployed around the world every hour of every day to provide a credible "forward presence,……続きを見る

The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of W……続きを見る

Has history been wrong for 200 years? Read the startling truth about the mutiny on the Bounty, its characters, causes, and aftermath. Television rights are now in development with Ridley Scott's Sco……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS PCHAPTER I. Preliminary CHAPTER II. From Cairo to Vicksburg CHAPTER III. From the Gulf to Vicksburg CHAPTER ……続きを見る

ACES AGAINST JAPAN The American Aces Speak Eric Hammel In this superb, originally conceived offering, noted military historian, Eric Hammel brings us first-person accounts from thirty-nine American ……続きを見る

In 1674, it is three years since Henry MorganÆs pirates sacked Panama. England is now at peace with Spain, and soon France, Holland, and Spain will briefly be at peace among themselves. But soon buc……続きを見る

"The Secret Sharer" is a short story by Joseph Conrad written in 1909, first published in Harper's Magazine in 1910, and as a book in the short-story collection "Twixt Land and Sea" (1912). The stor……続きを見る

From the national bestselling author of Final Patrol comes a gripping story of heroism under the sea. In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spo……続きを見る

In his famous book A Night to Remember, historian Walter Lord described the sinking of the Titanic as 'the last night of a small town'. Now, a hundred years after her sinking, John Welshman reconstr……続きを見る

Shipbuilding at Glasgow during the later half of the nineteenth century was a race to build faster ships for Trans-Atlantic travel. This is a brief look at the building of “The City of New York.”続きを見る

Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939**is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world G……続きを見る

The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawkーand the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk……続きを見る

The sea has been the site of radical changes in human lives and national histories. It has been an agent of colonial oppression but also of indigenous resistance, a site of loss, dispersal and enfor……続きを見る

The writings of Richard Henry Dana, Jr. telling the story of his experiences as a sailor on a two-year sea voyage. A thrilling tale of the early days of California, and of the terrors of sailing aro……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 logistics operations. Marine Corps Doctrinal Publication (MCDP) 4, Logistics, descri……続きを見る

This edition features • illustrations • a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes CONTENTS (abridged list) VOL. I. CHAPTER I. THE FIRST TWENTY-FIVE YEARS. ... CHAPTER XIII. FROM THE INCURSION OF THE ……続きを見る

This authoritative publication by the official historian, the late Sir Brooks Richards, vividly describes and analyses the clandestine naval operations that took place during World War II. 続きを見る

For the first time in trade paperback-a classic memoir of Navy SEALs in action. In gripping prose, Captain Robert A. Gormly tells about his days as a leader in the Navy SEALs- taking readers into th……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 Marine Corps Operations, the first Marine Corps Operations doctrinal publication wri……続きを見る

The amazing true story of Blackbeard, Calico Jack and all the other pirates of the Caribbean and Captain Woodes Rogers, the privateer turned governor of the Bahamas, who brought them to book. 'Both ……続きを見る