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A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous

Author: John Rodgaard
ISBN: 9781036112349
Format: Paperback
$52.99

Here is the exhaustive and exhilarating story of HMS Venomous, one of sixty-seven V&W destroyers built at the end...  Read More >>

Operation Neptune: Naval Operations for the Normandy Landings 1944

Operation Neptune: Naval Operations for the Normandy...

Author: B B Schofield
ISBN: 9781399078511
Format: Paperback
$44.99

Operation NEPTUNE was the codeword for the naval side of the OVERLORD plan for the historic June 1944 landings in...  Read More >>

Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil War to the Great War

Sea Power and the American Interest: From the Civil...

Author: John Morton
ISBN: 9781682479117
Format: Hardback
$68.20

Explains how the US came to put a value on commercial opportunities overseas in support of America’s steel industry....  Read More >>

The Wide Wide Sea

The Wide Wide Sea

Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 9780241437377
Format: Paperback
$36.99

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age...  Read More >>

The Wide Wide Sea

The Wide Wide Sea

Author: Hampton Sides
ISBN: 9780241437339
Format: Hardback
$59.99

From New York Times bestselling author Hampton Sides comes an epic account of the most momentous voyage of the Age...  Read More >>

The Royal Marines in Russia, 1919: Battling the Bolsheviks During the Intervention

The Royal Marines in Russia, 1919: Battling the Bolsheviks...

Author: Alastair Grant
ISBN: 9781399038768
Format: Hardback
$66.00

At the height of the Russian Civil War in 1919 Britain poured in thousands of troops and vast amounts of munitions...  Read More >>

Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day and the Battle for France

Normandy: the Sailors' Story: A Naval History of D-Day...

Author: Nick Hewitt
ISBN: 9780300256734
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The first account of the Allied navies’ vital contribution to the success of the D-Day landings and the Normandy...  Read More >>

Freedom of the Seas and US Foreign Policy: An Intellectual History

Freedom of the Seas and US Foreign Policy: An Intellectual...

Author: Connor Donahue (US Department of the Navy, USA)
ISBN: 9781032451497
Format: Hardback
$273.00

This book critically analyzes US political-military strategy by arguing that freedom of the seas discourse is fundamentally...  Read More >>

Midwatch in Verse: New Year's Deck Log Poetry of the United States Navy, 1941-1946

Midwatch in Verse: New Year's Deck Log Poetry of the...

Author: David E. Johnson ,  Gary Guinn
ISBN: 9781476689265
Format: Paperback
$84.70

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Dive Bomber Down: James A. Nist, Naval Aviator in the Pacific War

Dive Bomber Down: James A. Nist, Naval Aviator in the...

Author: Bryan J. Dickerson
ISBN: 9781476692463
Format: Paperback
$68.20

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Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives, Freemen and Freedmen Aboard Union Vessels

Black Sailors in the Civil War: A History of Fugitives,...

Author: James H. Bruns
ISBN: 9781476690544
Format: Paperback
$68.20

Thousands of black sailors served with valour during the Civil War. Yet few histories have highlighted their significant...  Read More >>

USS Bogue: The Most Successful Anti-Submarine Warfare Carrier in World War II

USS Bogue: The Most Successful Anti-Submarine Warfare...

Author: David Lee Russell
ISBN: 9781476692036
Format: Paperback
$59.40

Designed to locate and sink German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic, the escort carrier USS Bogue became the...  Read More >>

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe at Okinawa, October 9-10, 1945

Typhoon Louise vs. the United States Navy: Catastrophe...

Author: Gene Eric Salecker
ISBN: 9781476692739
Format: Paperback
$84.70

In October 1945, Typhoon Louise tore into Okinawa, slamming ships together and tossing them onto reefs and beaches....  Read More >>

From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets: A Century of Women in the U.S. Navy

From Yeomanettes to Fighter Jets: A Century of Women...

Author: Randy Goguen
ISBN: 9781682478899
Format: Hardback
$59.40

Addresses a major element of twenty-first century sea power - the integration of women into all military units...  Read More >>

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader

Admiral James Stavridis: Sailor, Scholar, Leader

Author: Stanley D.M. Carpenter
ISBN: 9781682475201
Format: Hardback
$50.60

The biography of Admiral James George Stavridis provides a look at the naval admiral, leader and commentator. From...  Read More >>

The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept of Sea Power

The Neptune Factor: Alfred Thayer Mahan and the Concept...

Author: Nicholas A. Lambert
ISBN: 9781612511580
Format: Hardback
$59.40

The biography of an idea - the concept of ‘Sea Power’, a term first coined by Capt. A.T. Mahan and the core thread...  Read More >>

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang

Struggle for Empire: The Battles of General Zuo Zongtang...

Author: Kenneth M. Swope
ISBN: 9781682472859
Format: Hardback
$72.60

Provides the first comprehensive modern biography in English of the late Qing dynasty statesman, strategist, and...  Read More >>

The Origins of Aegis: Eli T. Reich, Wayne Meyer, and the Creation of a Revolutionary Naval Weapons System

The Origins of Aegis: Eli T. Reich, Wayne Meyer, and...

Author: Thomas Wildenberg ,  John Hammerer
ISBN: 9781682479230
Format: Hardback
$68.20

Provides readers with an in-depth understanding of the professional development of two notable and highly accomplished...  Read More >>

A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah

A Confederate Biography: The Cruise of the CSS Shenandoah...

Author: Dwight Sturtevant Hughes
ISBN: 9781682473191
Format: Paperback
$92.27

From October 1864 to November 1865, the officers of the CSS Shenandoah carried the Confederacy and the conflict...  Read More >>

Principles of Maritime Power

Principles of Maritime Power

Author: Bruce A. Elleman, US Naval War College ,  S. C. M. Paine
ISBN: 9781538167199
Format: Paperback
$67.99

This concise but exhaustive treatment of sea powers examines the strengths and weaknesses of maritime power, including...  Read More >>

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific Victory

Supremacy at Sea: Task Force 58 and the Central Pacific...

Author: Evan Mawdsley
ISBN: 9780300255454
Format: Hardback
$41.95

The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the...  Read More >>

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Dünkirchen 1940: The German View of Dunkirk

Author: Robert Kershaw
ISBN: 9781472854391
Format: Paperback
$32.99

Using revelatory new material on an event which changed the tide of World War II, Robert Kershaw's ground-breaking...  Read More >>

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure to the Far Side of the World

All Hands on Deck: A Modern-Day High Seas Adventure...

Author: Will Sofrin
ISBN: 9781419767074
Format: Paperback
$29.99

A maritime adventure memoir that follows a crew of misfits hired by Hollywood to sail an 18th-century warship 5,000...  Read More >>

Warship 2024

Warship 2024

Author: John Jordan
ISBN: 9781472863300
Format: Hardback
$89.99

The 2024 edition of Warship, the celebrated annual publication featuring the latest research on the history, development,...  Read More >>

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