Naval Institute Press: 579 books
The Supercarriers
The Forrestal and Kitty Hawk Classes
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2014
The Supercarriers is a comprehensive historical overview with extensive photos, maps, drawings, and operational detail, including all air wing deployments. It covers all of the Forrestal class supercarriers and the follow-on ships, which are basically of the same design.The book is heavily illustrated...
Fateful Rendezvous
The Life of Butch O'Hara
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Fighter pilot Butch O'Hare became one of America's heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascinating detail the authors describe how O'Hare shot down five attacking Japanese bombers and severely damaged...
by Morris
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Strategic bombing is likely the most studied element in Aviation History. The shelves of libraries are filled with books on the topic, yet relatively little is known about where the concept originated or how it evolved. Most of the books on strategic bombing fall into three categories: descriptions of...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2017
Top-ranking Japanese officers offer their personal perspectives of the Pacific War. Lauded by historians and World War II buffs eager for the Japanese viewpoint, this collection of essays makes significant contributions to the field of World War II literature. This second edition, originally published...
America Spreads Her Sails
U.S. Seapower in the 19th Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2015
In this new paperback edition of America Spreads Her Sails, fourteen writers and historians demonstrate how American men and goods in American-made ships moved out over Alfred Thayer Mahan’s broad common,” the sea, to extend the country’s commerce, power, political influence, and culture. Capt....
Millions for Defense
The Subscription Warships of 1798
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2014
The title of this book comes from a toast popular with Americans in the late 1790s-millions for defense, not a cent for tribute.” Americans were incensed by demands for bribes from French diplomats and by France’s galling seizures of U.S. merchant ships, and as they teetered towards open war, were...
A Confederate Biography
The Cruise of CSS Shenandoah
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
Based primarily on the words of those who lived it, A Confederate Biography is a comprehensive narrative of the cruise of the CSS Shenandoah. More than a thrilling sea story, the journey provides a window of historical perspective on the Civil War. From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of...
The British Pacific Fleet
The Royal Navy's Most Powerful Strike Force
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
In August 1944 the British Pacific Fleet did not exist. Six months later it was strong enough to launch air attacks on Japanese territory, and by the end of the war it constituted the most powerful force in the history of the Royal Navy, fighting as professional equals alongside the US Navy in the thick...
Damn the Torpedos!
Applying the Navy's Leadership Principles to Business
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2016
Captain Fraser learned most every leadership trait he needed to know as a ship captain and as a senior business executive in the first sixty seconds of his induction into the United States Naval Academy.Those sixty seconds taught the leadership traits that were evident in Admiral David Farragut’s infamous...
The British Carrier Strike Fleet
After 1945
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
As a follow-up to the highly regarded British Pacific Fleet, David Hobbs looks at the post-World War II fortunes of the most powerful fleet in the Royal Navy-its decline in the face of diminishing resources, its final fall at the hands of ignorant politicians, and its recent resurrection in the form...
The British Battleship
1906-1946
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
Norman Friedman brings a new perspective to an ever-popular subject in The British Battleship: 19061946. With a unique ability to frame technologies within the context of politics, economics, and strategy, he offers unique insight into the development of the Royal Navy capital ships. With plans of...
First Rate
The Greatest Warship of the Age of Sail
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
In the sailing era, the warships called First Rates were the largest, most powerful, and most costly ships to construct, maintain, and operate. Built to the highest standards, they were lavishly decorated and given carefully considered names that reflected the pride and prestige of their country. They...
21st Century Ellis
Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2015
For years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lieutenant Colonel Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now, for the first time, those predictions and other works by the amphibious prophet” are available...
French Destroyers
Torpilleurs d'Escadres and Contre-Torpilleurs, 19221956
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Like its highly successful predecessors, French Battleships and French Cruisers, this beautifully presented book blends technical and historical analysis to produce the only comprehensive study of French destroyers in the English language. Between the world wars, France produced some of the largest...