Naval forces & warfare books

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Tudor Navy

Tudor Navy

Author: Arthur Nelson
ISBN: 9781557508164
Format: Hardback
$150.35

A detailed synthesis of information relating to the English navy during the Tudor period, an era that actually...  Read More >>

Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbour to Bikini Island

Graveyards of the Pacific: From Pearl Harbour to Bikini...

Author: Robert D. Ballard
ISBN: 9780792263661
Format: Hardback
$72.99

Showcasing rare archival photographs, and written by the premier oceanographer and researcher R.D Ballard, Graveyards...  Read More >>

Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian Gulf War

Shield and Sword: The United States Navy and the Persian...

Author: Edward J Marolda ,  Robert John Schneller, Jr
ISBN: 9781931641289
Format: Paperback
$92.27

Though not so well known as the land and air campaigns, the campaign at sea in the 1991 Gulf War was vital in subduing...  Read More >>

The Bounty Mutiny

The Bounty Mutiny

Author: William Bligh ,  Edward Christian
ISBN: 9780140439168
Format: Paperback
$42.24

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The Bridges of Vietnam: From the Journals of a Us Marine Intelligence Officer

The Bridges of Vietnam: From the Journals of a Us Marine...

Author: Fred L. Edwards Jr
ISBN: 9781574411386
Format: Paperback
$48.99

In 1966, Fred L. Edwards Jr went to serve as an intelligence officer in Vietnam. This work is built around his journals,...  Read More >>

Not Really What You'd Call a War

Not Really What You'd Call a War

Author: Norman Hampson
ISBN: 9781870325387
Format: Paperback
$38.68

The story of a British Liaison Officer in a Free French sloop during WWII. Acclaimed as a minor classic  Read More >>

The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Royal Australian Navy

The Australian Centenary History of Defence: Royal Australian...

Author: David M. Stevens
ISBN: 9780195541168
Format: Hardback
$145.20

"""The Australian Centenary History of Defence"" explains the complexities of the essential strands of the Commonwealth's...  Read More >>

An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists, and the Ocean Environment

An Ocean in Common: American Naval Officers, Scientists,...

Author: Gary E. Weir (Head, Contemporary History Branch, Naval Historical Center, Washington, DC, USA)
ISBN: 9781585441143
Format: Hardback
$118.67

Through two world conflicts and the Cold War, the US Navy and American ocean scientists drew closer, converting...  Read More >>

HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy

HMS Hood: Pride of the Royal Navy

Author: Dr Andrew Norman
ISBN: 9781862271524
Format: Hardback
$49.14

A controversial new examination of the history and sinking of the seemingly invincible epitome of British naval...  Read More >>

WARSHIP 2000 2001

WARSHIP 2000 2001

Author: Antony Preston
ISBN: 9780851777917
Format: Hardback
$125.40

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Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949

Treading Softly: U.S. Marines in China, 1819-1949

Author: George B. Clark
ISBN: 9780275970789
Format: Hardback
$140.00

From the mid-19th century to the early Cold War, the United States has a long history with China, and that interaction...  Read More >>

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers: How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation

Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers: How the Bomb...

Author: Jerry Miller
ISBN: 9781560989448
Format: Hardback
$33.92

With the advent of the atomic bomb and its impact on strategic thinking, policy makers believed that future wars...  Read More >>

Queen's South Africa Medal to the Royal Navy and the Royal Marines

Queen's South Africa Medal to the Royal Navy and the...

Author: W.H. Fevyer ,  J.W. Wilson
ISBN: 9781843421023
Format: Paperback
$31.90

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Above an Angry Sea:: United States Navy B-24 Liberator and PBY-2 Privateer Operations in the Pacific o October 1944 - August 1945

Above an Angry Sea:: United States Navy B-24 Liberator...

Author: Alan C. Carey
ISBN: 9780764312861
Format: Paperback
$65.87

Above an Angry Sea chronicles USN B-24 Liberator (PB4Y-1) and PB4Y-2 Privateer operations in the Pacific. The author's...  Read More >>

Anchors

Anchors

Author: N.E. Upham
ISBN: 9780747805083
Format: Paperback
$31.55

This book tells the fascinating story of how anchors evolved from their primitive origins to the special designs...  Read More >>

The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914-1918: War in a Narrow Sea

The Central Powers in the Adriatic, 1914-1918: War in...

Author: Charles Koburger
ISBN: 9780275970710
Format: Hardback
$131.00

The naval side of the First World War in the Adriatic provides a classic case study in narrow sea warfare.  Read More >>

The Armada Campaign 1588: The Great Enterprise against England

The Armada Campaign 1588: The Great Enterprise against...

Author: Angus Konstam ,  Howard Gerrard
ISBN: 9781841761923
Format: Paperback
$34.99

The thwarted invasion of England by the Spanish Armada is studied here in fascinating detail, alongside battlescene...  Read More >>

Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International Cooperation

Decommissioned Russian Nuclear Submarines and International...

Author: Charles Krupnick
ISBN: 9780786409129
Format: Paperback
$198.00

Discusses Russia's economy, its environment, and the Russian Navy, and then covers in detail the spent fuel of Russian...  Read More >>

Storming St Nazaire

Storming St Nazaire

Author: James G. Dorrian
ISBN: 9780850528077
Format: Paperback
$73.79

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The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in...

Author: Peter Maas
ISBN: 9780060932770
Format: Paperback
$29.69

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U.S. Navy and Origins of Military-Industrial Compl

U.S. Navy and Origins of Military-Industrial Compl

Author: Kurt Hackemer
ISBN: 9781557503336
Format: Hardback
$123.95

The first book to examine the developing relationship between American business and the U.S. Navy in the mid- to...  Read More >>

Iwo Jima 1945: The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi

Iwo Jima 1945: The Marines raise the flag on Mount Suribachi...

Author: Derrick Wright ,  Jim Laurier (Illustrator)
ISBN: 9781841761787
Format: Paperback
$34.99

One of the decisive battles of World War II, Iwo Jima was described as ""the toughest fight in the 169 years of...  Read More >>

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945

Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865–1945...

Author: William M. McBride (U.S. Naval Academy)
ISBN: 9780801864865
Format: Hardback
$135.00

The evolution and persistence of the ""battleship navy,he argues, offer direct insight into the dominance of the...  Read More >>

Ships Versus Shore: Civil War Engagements Along Southern Shores and Rivers

Ships Versus Shore: Civil War Engagements Along Southern...

Author: Dave Page
ISBN: 9781558538924
Format: Paperback
$31.99

Dave Page's Ships Versus Shore narrates ship-to-shore engagements in the eleven states of the Confederacy along...  Read More >>

Task Force 57: British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45

Task Force 57: British Pacific Fleet, 1944-45

Author: Peter C. Smith
ISBN: 9780947554859
Format: Paperback
$50.03

An account of all the engagements undertaken by Task Force 57, the largest British fleet to operate as a single...  Read More >>

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