Naval category: 2015 books
Titanic, First Accounts
(Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
**Fascinating firsthand accounts of the Titanic—in a deluxe package with gorgeous graphic cover art
The Titanic, First Accounts graphic deluxe edition compiles first hand accounts, testimonies, and letters by notable Titanic survivors, including Archibald Gracie, Lawrence Beesley, Elizabeth...
The Lost Fleet
A Yankee Whaler's Struggle Against the Confederate Navy and Arctic Disaster
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2013
Arctic disasters, rogue whales, ambush by Confederate ships--the true saga of one captain's struggle to survive the demise of the Yankee whaling fleet
It's the mid-ninteenth century and the American whaling fleet is struck by one hammer blow after the other. Yankee whalers are contending with...
by Norma Elizabeth, Bruce Roberts
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Over the centuries—from 18th-century Spanish galleons through German U-boats and modern oil tankers—seamen have feared the waters off North Carolina's Outer Banks. This book includes the story of Blackbeard's flagship and legendary civil war wrecks among other great tales. Included are the locations, a list of maritime museums and other points of interest.
by Max Hastings
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
On June 6, 1944, the American and British armies staged the greatest amphibious landing history to being Operation Overlord, the battle for the liberation of Europe. Despite the Allies' absolute command of sea and air and vast firepower, it took ten weeks of fierce fighting for them to overpower the...
The Rice Paddy Navy
U.S. Sailors Undercover in China
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2012
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, the U.S. Navy knew it would need vital information from the Pacific. After a meeting and a handshake agreement with Chiang Kai-shek, the Sino-American Cooperative Organization was born. This top-secret network worked hand in hand with the Nationalist Chinese to fight...
The End of Grand Strategy
US Maritime Operations in the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In The End of Grand Strategy, Simon Reich and Peter Dombrowski challenge the common view of grand strategy as unitary. They eschew prescription of any one specific approach, chosen from a spectrum that stretches from global primacy to restraint and isolationism, in favor of describing what America’s...
by Progressive Management
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2015
Professionally converted for accurate flowing-text e-book format reproduction, this military publication presents fascinating papers about the American military on the frontier from the Seventh Military History Symposium hosted at the Air Force Academy.They are arranged into four sections:...
by Gregor Salmon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
During the Vietnam War, the unique character of the Royal Australian Navy clearance diving branch emerged: there was simply no other military outfit in the world like it.
This true-life military story is taken from the highly acclaimed book Navy Divers, and follows the Australian elite unit's...
THE HISTORY OF THE PIRATES - 4 Book Collection (Illustrated)
A General History of the Pirates + The King of Pirates (The Story Of The Arch Pirate Henry Avery) + The Story Of The Notorious Pirate John Gow (Including the Biography of the Author)
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
This unique collection has been designed and formatted to the highest digital standards. The edition incorporates an active table of contents, interactive footnotes and all other information relevant to the content which makes the reading experience meticulously organized and enjoyable. A General...
by Mark Stille
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
The rival battlecruisers first clashed in January 1915 at Dogger Bank in the North Sea and although the battle was a British tactical victory with neither side losing any of its battlecruisers, the differences in the designs of the British and German ships were already apparent. The two sides responded...
by Barnaby Blacker
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2006
Stewart Blacker was a remarkable figure. His inventions were used with significant effect both in WW1 and WW2. Most notable of these was the synchronised machine gun, attached to fighter planes that could fire through the propeller. He also designed the PIAT anti tank weapon which was used with dramatic...
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne
Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2014
Life Aboard a British Privateer in the Time of Queen Anne
Being the Journal of Captain Woodes Rogers, Master Mariner
This edition features
• illustrations
• a linked Table of Contents and Footnotes
CONTENTS
Introduction
CHAPTER I.
From King Road, Bristol, to Cork in Ireland
CHAPTER...
by William Lay, Cyrus M. Hussey
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 9, 2013
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 MANNERS AND CUSTOMS OF THE INHABITANTS. BY WILLIAM LAY, OF SAYBROOK, CONN. AND CYRUS M. HUSSEY, OF NANTUCKET:...
by Bob Quinn
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2012
Irish identity is best understood from a maritime perspective. For eight millennia the island has been a haven for explorers, settlers, colonists, navigators, pirates and traders, absorbing goods and peoples from all points of the compass. The reduction of the islanders to the exclusive category 'Celtic'...