Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Victory in Defeat
The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Told here for the first time in vivid detail is the story of the defenders of Wake Island following their surrender to the Japanese on December 23, 1941. The highly regarded military historian Gregory Urwin spent decades researching what happened and now offers a revealing look at the U.S. Marines, sailors,...
Deciphering the Rising Sun
Navy and Marine Corps Codebreakers, Translators and Interpreters in the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
This book is the first to document the vital role played by Americans, not of Japanese ancestry, who served as Japanese language officers in World War II. Covering the period 1940-1945, it describes their selection, training, and service in the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps during the war and their contributions...
Colder than Hell
A Marine Rifle Company at Chosin Reservoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
During the early, uncertain days of the Korean War, World War II veteran and company lieutenant Joe Owen saw firsthand how the hastily assembled mix of some two hundred regulars and raw reservists hardened into a superb Marine rifle company known as Baker-One-Seven.As comrades fell wounded and dead around...
Eyes in the Sky
Eisenhower, the CIA, and Cold War Aerial Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Dino A. Brugioni, author of the best-selling account of the Cuban Missile crisis, Eyeball to Eyeball, draws on his long CIA career as one of the world's premier experts on aerial reconnaissance to provide the inside story of President Dwight D. Eisenhower’s efforts to use spy planes and satellites...
Into the Tiger's Jaw
America's First Black Marine Aviator
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Lt. General Frank E. Petersen’s autobiography provides a critical examination of this remarkable Marine’s career, from his accomplishments as the first black pilot in the U.S. Marine Corps to his promotion to Lieutenant General and final service as Commander U.S. Marine Corp Base Quantico, Virginia....
The American Foreign Legion
Black Soldiers of the 93d in World War I
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
Still segregated in World War I, the U.S. Army was reluctant to use its 93d division of black soldiers in combat and instead assigned the division's three National Guard and one draftee regiments to the French Army. The battlefield successes of these African Americans under the French at the height of...
My Men are My Heroes
The Brad Kasal Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
My Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum. Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal, the pride of Iowa, is a small town boy who wanted to be a United States Marine even before a poster perfect Marine recruiter marched into his high school...
Sailor in the Whitehouse
The Seafaring Life of FDR
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This behind-the-scenes look at Franklin D. Roosevelt’s extraordinary skill as a blue-water sailor explores how FDR’s love of the sea shaped his approach to public service and even influenced the course of events in World War II. Family and friends, Secret Service agents, and others reveal never-before-told...
Six Essential Elements of Leadership
Marine Corps Wisdom of a Medal of Honor Recipient
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2011
Col. Wesley Fox is a Medal of Honor recipient who wrote two widely respected accounts of his wartime experiences in the Marine Corps. His books, Marine Rifleman: Forty-Three Years in the Corps and Courage and Fear: A Primer, are both considered classic war memoirs.
Drawing on over four decades...
Militant Islamist Ideology
Understanding the Global Threat
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
A top adviser at the Joint Intelligence Task Force for Combating Terrorism argues that winning the war against Militant Islamists requires a more nuanced understanding of their ideology. His book is among the first attempts to deconstruct and marginalize al-Qaida ideology using Islamic based arguments....
Hell to Pay
Operation DOWNFALL and the Invasion of Japan, 1945-1947
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2017
Two years before the atomic attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki helped bring a quick end to hostilities in the summer of 1945, U.S. planners began work on Operation Downfall, codename for the Allied invasions of Kyushu and Honshu, in the Japanese home islands. While other books have examined Operation...
by Stavridis
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
“The Leader’s Bookshelf” identifies the "Top 50" books that can help anyone become a better leader. The works selected were based on hundreds of interviews with the most senior active and retired four-star U.S. military leaders who identified books from which they gained the special...
by Edward G Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
At the onset of World War II, the U.S. Army was a third-rate ground force of 145,000 with some generals who still believed in the relevance of horse cavalry. Its soldiers were untrained, its doctrine out of date, and its weapons hopelessly obsolete. Four years later, the U.S. Army was engaged in a global...
Chief of Staff, Vol. 2
The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders, World War II to Korea and Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history's great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff that key staff officer responsible for translating...