Naval category: 2015 books
The Rag Tag Fleet
The unknown story of the Australian men and boats that helped win the war in the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2017
The unknown story of how a fleet of Australian fishing boats, trawlers and schooners supplied US and Australian forces in the Pacific - and helped turn the course of World War II.
Mid-1942: from China to New Guinea, the Pacific belonged to the Japanese. In this desperate situation, a fleet...
by Edwin P. Hoyt
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A look at the Navy SEALS describes their use by the military and discusses their experiences in such “theaters of operation” as Omaha Beach, Vietnam, and the Persian Gulf.
The Dell War Series takes you onto the battlefield, into the jungles and beneath the oceans with unforgettable stories...
The U.S. Navy
A Concise History
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2015
This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama pivotal to the nation's fortunes: John Paul Jones' attacks on the British...
by Jonathan Miles
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2008
A “thrilling . . . captivating” account of the most famous shipwreck before the Titanic—a tragedy that inspired an unforgettable masterpiece of Western art (The Boston Globe).
In June 1816, the Medusa set sail. Commanded by an incompetent captain, the frigate ran aground off the desolate...
by Edward Fraser
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2011
Of the many famous, courageous leaders of the Napoleonic Wars, and on sea beyond that era, few stand as high in estimation as Horatio Nelson, lauded by his countrymen, respected by his enemies, and despite his lack of understanding of warfare on the waves by the Emperor Napoleon himself. His tale...
by Rupert Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2013
The bitter Battle of Stalingrad was the turning point of WWII on the Eastern Front. The relentless and unstoppable German advances that had seen the panzers sweep hundreds of miles into Russia was finally brought to a halt at Stalingrad. The elite German 6th Army was first fought to a standstill, then...
Beyond the Blue Horizon
How the Earliest Mariners Unlocked the Secrets of the Oceans
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
In Beyond the Blue Horizon, bestselling science historian Brian Fagan tackles his richest topic yet: the enduring mystery of the oceans, the planet's most forbidding terrain.This is not a tale of Columbus or Hudson, but of much earlier mariners. From the moment when ancient Polynesians first dared...
German Battleships 1914–18 (2)
Kaiser, König and Bayern classes
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2012
Supported by official documents, personal accounts, official drawings and specially commissioned artwork, this volume is an informative history of the key classes Kaiser, König and Bayern that formed the backbone of the German Imperial Navy throughout World War I, detailing the technological revolution that had taken place to enable the building of these large dreadnought classes.
Two Years Before the Mast
A Personal Narrative of Life at Sea
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2009
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 account we have of life at sea in the early nineteenth century. Richard Henry Dana is only nineteen when...
by John Richard Hale
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents, Footnotes, and Index
CONTENTS
Introduction
PERIOD OF OAR AND CLOSE FIGHTING
I. Salamis, B.C. 480
II. Actium, B.C. 31
III. Svold Island, A.D. 1000
IV. Sluys, 1340
V. Lepanto, 1571
PERIOD OF SAIL AND GUN
VI....
A Drop in the Ocean
Dramatic Accounts of Aircrew Saved From the Sea
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 1996
In the summer of 1942 a Wellington bomber, operating with 115 Squadron from Marham in Norfolk was forced to ditch in the North Sea returning from a raid on Hamburg. Two members of the crew, who were picked up by the Luftwaffe, have written this book. '
Unknown Waters
A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2009
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Charting the Siberian continental shelf during the height of the Cold War
This book tells the story of the brave officers and men of the nuclear attack submarine USS Queenfish (SSN-651), who made the first survey of an...
Battleground Atlantic
How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of WW II
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2006
The true story of a German-Japanese scheme to turn much of America into a radioactive wasteland.
In the early hours of June 24, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes patrolling the Atlantic attacked a Japanese submarine known as the I-52. But this was more than the sinking of one more enemy warship. It was...
Mutiny at Fort Jackson
The Untold Story of the Fall of New Orleans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2009
New Orleans was the largest city--and one of the richest--in the Confederacy, protected in part by Fort Jackson, which was just sixty-five miles down the Mississippi River. On April 27, 1862, Confederate soldiers at Fort Jackson rose up in mutiny against their commanding officers. New Orleans fell...