3,080円 The classic reference on the technical history of British capital ship design and construction during the dreadnought era. A century ago at Jutland, Dogger Bank, Heligoland Bight, and the first battle for the Falklands, mighty squadrons of these great armored ships fought their German counterpart...

1,133円 Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual covers procedures for requesting reconnaissance information in a joint environment. This publication explains reconnaissance and the intelligence cycle; describes reconnaissance products; an...

532円 This edition features illustrations. CONTENTS PREFACE INTRODUCTION THE TENDENCY OF WARS TO SPREAD CHAPTER I THE NAVAL CAMPAIGN ON LAKE CHAMPLAIN 1775-1776 CHAPTER II NAVAL ACTION AT BOSTON, CHARLESTON, NEW YORK, AND NARRAGANSETT BAYーASSOCIATED LAND OPERATIONS, TO THE BATTLE OF TRENTON 1776 CHAPT...

1,133円 Part of our value-added professional format series of U.S. military manuals, this U.S. Marine Corps manual is about tactics. This publication is about winning in combat. Winning requires many things: excellence in techniques, an appreciation of the enemy, exemplary leadership, battlefield judgmen...

292円 Love history? Know your stuff with History in an Hour. The sinking of the Titanic 100 years ago in 1912, and the subsequent deaths of over 1,500 passengers, sent shock waves around the world. Never before or since has a maritime disaster in a time of peace had such an impact. TITANIC: HISTORY IN ...

453円 LOYAL and STEADFAST is the story of HMS CONSORT, a C class destroyer commissioned into the post-World War 2 Royal Navy. During her ten years of service, CONSORT spent nearly all her time in the Far East - participating in the Occupation of Japan, the Malayan Emergency and the Korean War. The book...

952円 From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie, to the carrier battles of World War II, to the devastating high-tech action in the Persian Gulf, here is a gripping history of five key battles that defined the evolution of naval warfare--and the course of the American ...

1,735円 The visual history of the navy in Newport from mercantile trade to world war and the Naval War College. Known throughout the world as "The City by the Sea," Newport, Rhode Island, has a long history of maritime activity. Since the Colonial period, Newport has been recognized as both an important ...

3,200円 A long-overdue history of America's "forgotten flattop." On November 24, 1943, a Japanese torpedo plunged into the starboard side of the American escort carrier USS Liscome Bay. The torpedo struck the thin-skinned carrier in the worst possible place the bomb storage area. The resulting explosion ...

2,991円 The USS Monitor famously battled the CSS Virginia (the armored and refitted USS Merrimack) at Hampton Roads in March 1862. This updated edition of David A. Mindell's classic account of the ironclad warships and the human dimension of modern warfare commemorates the 150th anniversary of this histo...

1,872円 The true story of a German-Japanese scheme to turn much of America into a radioactive wasteland. In the early hours of June 24, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes patrolling the Atlantic attacked a Japanese submarine known as the I-52. But this was more than the sinking of one more enemy warship. It was a...

948円 The worst storm in history seen from the wheelhouse of a doomed fishing trawler; a mesmerisingly vivid account of a natural hell from a perspective that offers no escape. The ‘perfect storm’ is a once-in-a-hundred-years combination: a high pressure system from the Great Lakes, running into storm ...