Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Struggle for the Middle Sea
The Great Navies at War in the Mediterranean Theater, 1940-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic or Pacific yet remarkably little has been written about the subject. This fresh study of the Mediterranean's naval war analyzes the actions and performances...
Pirate Alley
Commanding Task Force 151 Off Somalia
Language: English
Release Date: October 12, 2012
Rear Admiral Terry McKnight, USN (Ret.) served as Commander, Counter-Piracy Task Force-Gulf of Aden. He wrote the first draft of the Navy’s handbook on fighting piracy while serving as the initial commander of Combined Task Force 151, an international effort to deploy naval vessels from several nations...
The Fast Carriers
The Forging of an Air Navy
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2015
This classic study is considered essential reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development in WWII. It provides a fascinating record not only of the U.S. Navy's metamorphosis from a battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet, but also of the heated debates that took place over the...
Seven at Santa Cruz
The Life of Fighter Ace Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018
This riveting biography details how Stanley “Swede” Vejtasa became a World War II naval hero. During the Battle of the Coral Sea, Swede flew an SBD Dauntless dive-bomber and helped sink Shoho, the first aircraft carrier lost by Japan in World War II. The next day, in that same Dauntless, he took...
War in the Chesapeake
The British Campaigns to Control the Bay, 1813-1814
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2015
In the early nineteenth century, the United States of America was far from united. The United States faced internal strife over the extent of governance and the rights of individual states. The United States’ relationship with their former colonial power was also uncertain. Britain impressed American...
A Signal Victory
The Lake Erie Campaign, 1812-1813
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The Battle of Lake Erie on 10 September 1813 is considered by many to be the most important naval confrontation of the War of 1812. Made famous by the American fleet commander Oliver Hazard Perry's comment, "We have met the enemy and they are ours," the battle marked the U.S. Navy's first successful...
Striking the Hornets' Nest
Naval Aviation and the Origins of Strategic Bombing in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: October 19, 2015
Striking the Hornets’ Nest provides the first extensive analysis of the Northern Bombing Group (NBG), the Navy’s most innovative aviation initiative of World War I and one of the world’s first dedicated strategic bombing programs. Very little has been written about the Navy’s aviation activities...
Home Squadron
The U.S. Navy on the North Atlantic Station
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
This study examines the transformation of the United States Navy as a fighting organization that took place on the North Atlantic Station between 1874 and 1897. At the beginning of this period, the warships assigned to this station were collectively administered by a rear-admiral, but were operationally...
Nothing Too Daring
A Biography of Commodore David Porter, 1783-1843
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2014
Commodore David Dixon Porter made history when he took the Essex into the Pacific and crippled the British whaling industry in the War of 1812. He was the first to suggest that the U.S. Navy force open Japan. He was also court-martialed and convicted on charges arising out of his unauthorized invasion...
Beneath the Waves
The Life and Navy of Capt. Edward L. Beach, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: September 2, 2013
One of the U.S. Navy s best known submarine officers, Capt. Edward L. Beach, enjoyed fame both as a bestselling author and as a highly decorated naval officer. Not long after the success of his first novel Run Silent, Run Deep, which was later made into a major feature film, he commanded the first...
by Robert Heinl, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
The quotations in this unique dictionary cover all aspects of the military art-war, personalities, traditions and customs, weapons and equipment, as well as virtues and failings. It is a fascinating and comprehensive collection which includes over 5000 quotations and spans the past two thousand years.The...
War Plan Orange
The U.S. Strategy to Defeat Japan, 1897-1945
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Based on twenty years of research in formerly secret archives, this book reveals for the first time the full significance of War Plan Orange--the U.S. Navy's strategy to defeat Japan, forumulated over the forty years prior to World War II. It recounts the struggles between "thrusting" and...
The Measure of a Man
My Father, the Marine Corps, and Saipan
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2013
Maj. Roger G. B. Broome, USMCR, died from wounds received on Saipan before his daughter had a chance to know him. Now a well-known naval historian and author of award-winning books, that daughter, Kathleen Broome Williams, has turned the research skills she honed studying naval technology to find her...
by Carl Boyd, Akihiko Yoshida Yoshida
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
When first published in 1995, this book was hailed as an absolutely indispensable contribution to the history of the Pacific War. Drawing heavily from Japanese sources and American wartime intercepts of secret Japanese radio messages, a noted American naval historian and a Japanese mariner painstakingly...