Naval Institute Press: 579 books
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII
Destroyers, Frigates, Sloops, Escorts, Minesweepers, Submarines, Coastal Forces and Auxiliaries
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Progressively covers ships below cruisers, class by class, to provide a detailed guide to paint schemes.
Commanding Lincoln's Navy
Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
The Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and controlling the Mississippi River and its tributaries. President Lincoln understood, however, that the Navy was not as important, militarily and politically,...
by Charles Lee Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2014
The average American knows little or nothing of the great service rendered by Admiral de Grasse, a French admiral, to the cause of American independence in the battle off Cape Henry in 1781. The battle off Cape Henry had ultimate effects more important than those of Waterloo. De Grasse’s action entailed...
21st Century Power
Strategic Superiority for the Modern Era
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2018
This book uses the 21st Century Foundations series format to re-introduce to the military community the writings of General Thomas S. Power, the third Commander-in-Chief of the Strategic Air Command (SAC). His unappreciated works contain many insights into military topics such as technology and the...
Leadership Embodied
The Secrets to Success of the Most Effective Navy
Language: English
Release Date: November 26, 2014
Now in its second edition, Leadership Embodied is an instructive collection of short biographical essays focusing on Navy and Marine Corps personnel, who have demonstrated notable leadership characteristics. While leaders are present in every aspect of human undertaking, leadership in this work is illustrated...
Armchair Warriors
Private Citizens, Public Press, and the Rise of American Power
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
This book is a history of public information and personal ideas about war and the military over the last century. It examines the interplay between popular media coverage of the nation's wars and the perceptions of ordinary Americans regarding military issues. Davidson studied Americans who produced...
Angel of Dien Bien Phu
The Lone French Woman at the Decisive Battle for Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
As the only French woman among some 11,000 defenders at Dien Bien Phu, Geneviève de Galard had a unique perspective of the siege and fall of the French fortress. This memoir about her years as a flight nurse for the French air force offers previously unknown details about their defeat. De Galard was...
Fallujah Redux
The Anbar Awakening and the Struggle with Al-Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The city of Fallujah, Iraq will long be associated with some of the worst violence and brutality of the Iraq war. The battles to retake the city from insurgent fighters in 2004 have already indelibly carved its name into the historic annals of the U.S. military and occupy a revered place in the storied...
Circle of Treason
CIA Traitor Aldrich Ames and the Men He Betrayed
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2012
Circle of Treason details the authors’ personal involvement in the hunt for and eventual identification of a Soviet mole in the CIA during the 1980s and 1990s. The search for the presumed traitor was necessitated by the loss of almost all of the CIA’s large stable of Soviet intelligence officers...
Dr. Space
The Life of Wernher von Braun
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Written by veteran aerospace journalist Bob Ward, who spent years investigating his subject, this biography presents a revealing but even-handed portrait of the father of modern rocketry. As he chronicles Wernher von Braun's life, Ward explodes many myths and misconceptions about the controversial genius...
The Best of Don Winslow of the Navy
A Collection of High-Seas Stories from Comic's Most Daring Sailor
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
A collection of the best stories from the classic run of Don Winslow of the Navy, one of the most popular comic books running during and after World War II. Edited by Craig Yoe, the selected stories are digitally remastered and contextualized with Yoe’s historical research. Preceding the full, colorful...
by Ian Densford
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2018
Inspired from assorted first-hand accounts, this fictional story of World War I is an anthropomorphic retelling of that global conflict and the soldiers who experienced the horrors of the front lines and high seas. While horse drawn carts and trains were ordinary sights, automobiles, tanks, submarines,...
Utmost Savagery
The Three Days of Tarawa
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
On November 20, l943, in the first trial by fire of America's fledgling amphibious assault doctrine, five thousand men stormed the beaches of Tarawa, a seemingly invincible Japanese island fortress barely the size of the Pentagon parking lots (three-hundred acres!). Before the first day ended, one third...
From Omaha to Okinawa
The Story of the Seabees
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
In this rousing sequel to his classic Can Do! The Story of the Seabees, William Bradford Huie continues the saga of the combat trained civilian plumbers, carpenters, heavy equipment operators, wharf builders, and civil engineers who served in the U.S. Navy construction battalions. The story begins in...