Naval forces & warfare books

This commemorative volume records a special kind of dual citizenship: Canadians exercising the profession of the...  Read More >>

Just as Thomas Cutler's The Bluejacket's Manual serves as the standard introduction and continuing reference guide...  Read More >>

La creation de la Marine royale du Canada (MRC) en 1910 et ses premieres annees d'existence ont ete marquees par...  Read More >>

Based on extensive archival research, it traces the story of the navy, from its beginnings as Lauriers tinpot navy,...  Read More >>

The Ironclad was a revolutionary weapon of war. Although iron was used for protection in the Far East during the...  Read More >>

Often overlooked as a naval power of WWII, Italy's Regia Marina was, upon the declaration of war against France,...  Read More >>

By the end of the Civil War the US Navy was the most advanced in the world, but in subsequent years America's naval...  Read More >>

Since the beginning of the 20th century, destroyers have been all-purpose ships, indispensable in roles large and...  Read More >>

Few if any 20th century warships were more justly acclaimed than the destroyers of the US Navy's Fletcher class....  Read More >>

On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small...  Read More >>

Motor torpedo boat development began in the early 1900s and the vessels were first put into active service during...  Read More >>

On the night of December 7, 1942, five canoes were launched off the mouth of the Gironde river, each containing...  Read More >>

Described by one soldier as a metal box designed by a sadist to move soldiers across the water, the Landing Craft,...  Read More >>

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Although the Great War might be regarded as the heyday of the big-gun at sea, it also saw the maturing of underwater...  Read More >>

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Pulitzer prize-winning historian Garrett Mattingly's bestselling classic is now, on the 400th anniversary of the...  Read More >>

Reprint of this scarce joint 1996 publication by the U.S. Naval Historical Center and the Office of Naval Intelligence....  Read More >>

Before 1815 Britain established a global empire, achieved naval domination, and laid the foundations of the first...  Read More >>

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A vivid retelling of a classic naval shipwreck and its archaeological discovery In this vivid retelling of...  Read More >>

His Majesty's destroyers had a long and costly war. Some eight thousand destroyer men did not survive. At the height...  Read More >>

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