Naval Institute Press: 579 books
Storm Landings
Epic Amphibious Battles in the Central Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The Pacific War changed abruptly in November 1943 when Admiral Chester Nimitz unleashed a new offensive across the Central Pacific, spearheaded by fast carrier task forces and U.S. Marines. The sudden American proclivity for bold amphibious assaults into the teeth of prepared defenses astonished Japanese...
An Inoffensive Rearmament
The Making of the Postwar Japanese Army
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2014
Colonel Frank Kowalski served as the Chief of Staff of the American military advisory group that helped establish the National Police Reserve, the predecessor to the Japan Self-Defense Forces, and provided daily guidance to it during its first two years of existence. In this book, Kowalski provides,...
by Arnold S. Lott
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
Nimitz called this book about the USS Aaron Ward on the radar picket line in the Pacific, "the finest story of the war that I have been privileged to read."
The Burning of Washington
The British Invasion of 1814
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2013
With all the immediacy of an eyewitness account, Anthony Pitch tells the dramatic story of the British invasion of Washington in the summer of 1814, an episode many call a defining moment in the coming-of-age of the United States. The British torched the Capitol, the White House, and many other public...
Hellcat
The F6F in World War II
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
Largely responsible for crushing Japanese airpower wherever the American fast carrier force sailed, the Grumman F6F Hellcat was considered the most important Allied aircraft in the Pacific during 1943 and 1944. Designed for speed, range, and climb to compete with Japan's exceptional Mitsubishi A6M Zero,...
Corsair
The F4U in World War II and Korea
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
This is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend--with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as a dive bomber and reconnaissance plane. Filled with facts and figures, this fast-paced history begins...
The Chief Culprit
Stalin's Grand Design to Start World War II
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2013
A remarkable book. A delayed bombshell that includes very pertinent new research and discoveries Suvorov has made since 1990. He makes savvy readers of contemporary and World War II history, of a mind to reexamine the Soviet past in terms of what historians call present interest.’ None of the...
Chief of Staff, Vol. 1
The Principal Officers Behind History's Great Commanders, Napoleonic Wars to World War I
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...
South Pacific Destroyer
The Battle for the Solomons from Savo Island to Vella Gulf
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Russell Crenshaw's riveting account of the savage night battle for the Solomon Islands in early 1943 offers readers a unique insider's perspective from the decks of one of the destroyers that bore the brunt of the struggle. Drawing on his experience as a gunnery officer in the USS Maury, his vivid, balanced,...
The Little Giants
U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
The substantial accomplishments of the U.S. Navy's mini-carriers in such battles as Leyte Gulf, Guadalcanal, the Marianas, and Okinawa never gained the attention given the fast carriers, but there is little question that their vital operations played an important role in the Pacific campaign. These remarkably...
Driven Patriot
The Life and Times of James Forrestal
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2012
A biography of the brilliant, ambitious Forrestal whose career took him from the Wall Street to Washington.
"The Three Musketeers of the Army Air Forces"
From Hitler's Fortress Europa to Hiroshima and Nagasaki
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2015
While scores of books have been published about the atomic bombings that helped end World War II, little has been written about the personal lives and relationship of the three men that led the raid. Paul Tibbets, Tom Ferebee, and Ted Dutch” Van Kirk exemplified what Life Magazine meant when in 1942...
Sea of Sharks
A Sailor's World War II Survival Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually,...
Fire on the Water
China, America, and the Future of the Pacific
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
The main theme of Fire on the Water is that conventional measures of military balance, employed by both the general public and many policy experts, underestimate the threat that China’s military modernization poses to the U.S. position in the Asia-Pacific region. Within a decade, China’s leaders...