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| 21st Century Submarines |
| Twenty-First Century Submarines includes the undersea vessels currently in use with navies around the world, such as the American Ohio class nuclear-powered submarine. Hardcover ... |
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| A Blue Sea of Blood: Deciphering the Mys |
| On the morning of March 1, 1942, the WWI-era destroyer USS Edsall--under orders to deliver some forty Army Air Force fighter crews to the beleaguered island of Java--split off from the USS Whipple an... |
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| A Leader Born: The Life of Admiral John |
| John S. Slew McCain was an old-school sailor. Wiry, profane, a cusser and a gambler, he reminded more than one observer of Popeye. He was also a pioneer in the hard-hitting naval tactics that bro... |
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| A Social History of the Navy 1793-1815 |
| This finely researched book is a portrait of the Royal Navy during the Napoleonic wars; but it is particularly a portrait of the Navy's people, of the officers and men who formed that formidable fighting force made popular by novels of C.S. Forester and P |
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| Aircraft Carriers |
| This unique and impressive encyclopedia is both a fascinating history of the aircraft carriers development and a comprehensive country-by-country visual directory of more than 170 of the worlds aviat... |
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| America's Fighting Admirals: Winning the |
| American naval actions of World War II comprise the most widespread, complex, and dramatic battles in the history of sea warfare. The fighting took place over vast distances in the Atlantic and Pacif... |
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| American Admiralship: The Art of Naval C |
| What makes a modern leader? It is a question that becomes more and more pressing in these troubled times of worldwide conflicts and economic turmoil. And it is a question eloquently answered by the s... |
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| American Cruisers of W. W. II:A Pictoria |
| Subtitled: A Pictorial Encyclopedia. Short descriptions and photographs of the 74 American cruisers that won at least one battle star in WWII. Includes chapters on Japanese cruisers, scout planes, cr... |
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| An Illustrated History of the Royal Navy |
| The Royal Navy occupies a central position in the history of Britains island nation. In Shakespeares words, the sea is the countrys moat defensive, and the ships of the Royal Navy are the natural gua... |
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| Armada 1588: The Spanish Assault on Engl |
| The defeat of the Spanish Armada is one of the turning points in English history, and it was perhaps the defining episode in the long reigns of Elizabeth I of England and Philip II of Spain. The runn... |
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| Battleship Arizona's Marines at War: Mak |
| On the morning of December 7, 1941, within the first minute of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a torpedo slammed into the port bow of the USS Arizona. Major Alan Shapley, the senior Marine offic... |
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| Bireme: Roman Naval Warfare in History a |
| Classic format. 68 pages with 4-page centerfold. Complete modeling and painting process. Includes over 100 stock, converted, and scratch built figures. Uniforms and battle illustrations. Over 100 col... |
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| Black Flag: The Surrender of Germany's U |
| On the eve of Germanys surrender in May 1945, Grossadmiral Karl Dënitz commanded thousands of loyal and active men of the U-boat service. Still fully armed and unbroken in morale, enclaves of these m... |
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| British Warship Losses in the Ironclad E |
| A chronological listing of all British naval vessels lost through accident or enemy action from 1860 to the end of the First World War, with full descriptions of the circumstances. A sequel to David ... |
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| Carrier Strike:The Battle of the Santa C |
| Eric Hammel. It was a Japanese victory-but it spelled the end for Japan in the war at sea. In Carrier Strike, critically acclaimed military historian Eric Hammel gives a blow-by-blow, edge-of-your-se... |
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| Coastal Forces at War: 2nd Edition |
| During the Second World War, Royal Navy motor torpedo boats, motor gunboats and motor launches performed a multitude of dangerous tasks in the English Channel and North Sea. Ferocious close-quarter c... |
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| Darkest Hour: The True Story of Lark For |
| January 23, 1942, New Britain. It was 2:30 a.m., the darkest hour of the day and, for the defenders of this Southwest Pacific island, soon to be the wars darkest hour. Fifteen hundred men and six nur... |
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| Feeding Nelson's Navy:The True Story of |
| prevailing image of food at sea in the age of sail features rotting meat and weevily biscuits, but this highly original book proves beyond doubt that this was never the norm. |
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| Foundations of Naval History |
| The Foundations of Naval History covers the career of Sir John Knox Laughton (1830-1915) who, before his death, was influential in the growing debate about the strategy and tactics of contemporary na... |
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| Gamp VC: The Wartime story of Maverick S |
| Rear Admiral Anthony Miers VC – nicknamed "Gamp" – was one of the Royal Navys most controversial submarine commanders of the Second World War. Hot-tempered and incautiously spoken, he was notor... |
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