Naval forces & warfare books

The launch of HMS Dreadnought in 1906 changed the face of naval warfare. This revolutionary new battleship was in...  Read More >>

At the start of the American Civil War, neither side had warships on the Mississippi River and in the first few...  Read More >>

During World War II, few groups within the Royal Navy fought a harder, more intense war than the men of Coastal...  Read More >>

As the major powers engaged in an arms race in the early years of the 20th century, the Admiralty was tasked with...  Read More >>

The Aichi Type 99 Carrier Bomber (D3A) - code named 'Val' by Allied intelligence - was the mainstay of the Imperial...  Read More >>

Most books on the Cuban Missile Crisis tell the story using the memoirs of those who advised President Kennedy as...  Read More >>

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The Great War tore Europe apart, killing over 35 million men and challenging the notion of heroism. Air and Sea...  Read More >>

Today the twenty-gun sloop USS Constellation is a floating museum in Baltimore Harbor; in 1859 it was an emblem...  Read More >>

The Greatest Players is a dynamic new series that introduces readers to the greatest players and most memorable...  Read More >>

Most Americans know little about their Navy and learning about it can be daunting. But this informative yet highly...  Read More >>

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A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the...  Read More >>

This is the dramatic history of the HAL-3 Seawolves, the U.S. Navy's first and only helicopter gunship squadron...  Read More >>

Winston Churchill claimed that the U-boat peril was the only thing that ever frightened him during World War II....  Read More >>

Barnes was born in 1850 into a shipowning family in St Johns, Newfoundland, and first went to sea while still a...  Read More >>

The term 'the phony war' is often applied to the first months of the Second World War, a term suggesting inaction...  Read More >>

Captain Broke's victory in 1813 over Captain Lawrence of USS Chesapeake, which was to have far reaching influence...  Read More >>

A new edition of the remarkable wartime experiences of Graeme Ogden, father of Alan Ogden, seasoned Bene Factum...  Read More >>

Published to coincide with the centennial celebration of U.S. Navy aviation, this book details the history of U.S....  Read More >>

The U.S. Navy's first two-ocean war was the Spanish-American War of 1898. A war that was global in scope, with the...  Read More >>

A longtime professor at the Naval War College who once directed strategic and long-range planning for the Navy and...  Read More >>

Bill Lawrence served his country for thirty-seven years in a remarkable naval career filled with triumphs and adversities....  Read More >>

Lauded for his ability to tell compelling, true adventure stories, award-winning author Andrew C.A. Jampoler has...  Read More >>