Naval Institute Press: 579 books
by Robert H. Adelman, George H. Walton
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
The 'Devil's Brigade' was the name given to US/Canadian special forces in World War II, who saw action in the Aleutian Islands, Italy and the south of France. This account was co-written by a brigade veteran and includes profiles of many of his comrades in this famously rugged unit.
The Sheriff of Ramadi
Navy Seals and the Winning of Al-Anbar
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
In this ground-breaking book, best-selling author and former U.S. Navy SEAL Dick Couch reports on the actions of the SEAL Task Unit during the Battle of Ramadi in Iraq s al-Anbar Province between 2005 and 2007. When he began his research, the author thought he would be writing about the SEALs courage...
The Lucky Few
The Fall of Saigon and the Rescue Mission of the USS Kirk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
As the Vietnam War reached its tragic climax in the last days of April 1975, a task force of U.S. Navy ships cruised off South Vietnam's coast. Their mission was to support the evacuation of American embassy personnel and military advisers from Saigon as well as to secure the safety of the South Vietnamese...
by Richard Wheeler
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2014
The story of one of the bloodiest battles in history, resulting in the raising of the American flag on Mt. Suribachi, is documented with a personal touch; the author himself was a member of that company. It is a searing and unique account of that battle, told from the perspective of both the gallant U.S. Marines who invaded the island and the brave Japanese soldiers who defended it.
Fortnight of Infamy
The Collapse of Allied Airpower West of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2013
While America was preoccupied with the aftermath of Pearl Harbor, an even greater tragedy was unfolding across Southeast Asia. From Wake Island to Burma, the Empire of Japan opened the largest front in the history of warfare: an aircraft-driven invasion of colonial possessions throughout the Far East...
South Pacific Cauldron
World War II's Great Forgotten Battlegrounds
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2014
The war in the South Pacific in its entirety has remained remarkably neglected by historians. This is the first comprehensive narrative history covering all land, sea and air operations in the theater to the end of World War II.While Guadalcanal is familiar to most Americans and the Kokoda Trail is well...
Faithful Warriors
A Combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Faithful Warriors is a memoir of World War II in the Pacific by a combat veteran of the 8th Marine Regiment, 2nd Marine Division. Written with award-winning author Steven Weingartner, Ladd’s book chronicles his experiences as a junior officer in some of the fiercest fighting of the war in the Pacific....
by General Douglas Macarthur
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Written in his own hand, and finished only weeks before his death, Reminiscences by General Douglas MacArthur spans more than half a century of modern history. These pages show a man whose unique vantage point at the center of the stage enabled him to illuminate major controversies of our time, and whose...
Target Hiroshima
Deak Parsons and the Creation of the Atomic Bomb
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
For better or worse, Navy captain William S. "Deak" Parsons made the atomic bomb happen. As ordnance chief and associate director at Los Alamos, Parsons turned the scientists' nuclear creation into a practical weapon. As weaponeer, he completed the assembly of "Little Boy" during the flight to Hiroshima....
by John Grider Miller
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2013
In his desperate attempt to blow up the bridge at Dong Ha and keep some 30,000 men and 200 tanks at bay, Ripley endured three hours of direct fire to rig some 500 pounds of explosives. Such a story of raw courage and personal resolve is rarely encountered.
No Surrender
My Thirty-Year War
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
In the spring of 1974, Second Lieutenant Hiroo Onoda of the Japanese army made world headlines when he emerged from the Philippine jungle after a thirty-year ordeal. Hunted in turn by American troops, the Philippine police, hostile islanders, and successive Japanese search parties, Onoda had skillfully...
Alone on Guadalcanal
A Coastwatcher's Story
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
This remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Clemens managed to survive months behind Japanese lines in one of the most unfriendly climates and terrains...
The Secret War for the Middle East
The Influence of Axis and Allied Intelligence Operations During World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2013
It can be argued that the Middle East during the World War II has been regarded as that conflict’s most overlooked theater of operations. Though the threat of direct Axis invasion never materialized beyond the Egyptian Western Desert with Rommel’s Afrika Korps, this did not limit the Axis from probing...
A Tactical Ethic
Moral Conduct in the Insurgent Battlespace
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2013
Following the success of his recent book on Navy SEALs in Iraq, The Sheriff of Ramadi, bestselling author and combat veteran Dick Couch now examines the importance of battlefield ethics in effectively combating terrorists without losing the battle for the hearts of the local population. A former SEAL...