Landing on the beach at Peleliu in 1944 as twenty-year-old new recruit to the US Marines, Eugene Sledge can only try desperately to survive. This memoir tells the cruelty, bravery and deaths of the men he fought alongside, and of his own journey from...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 16-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682476642)
This book, framed in three parts to cover the contributions of these Naval Academy graduates in the Pacific Theater from the Sea, in the Air, and below the Surface shares the experiences of a group of men who fought the full scope of the war agains...Daugiau...
Britain carried out many amphibious operations during the long-eighteenth century, ranging from raids to the landing of whole armies. British Amphibious Warfare 1739-1815 provides case-studies of some of these operations, and explores why their outco...Daugiau...
A feast of colorful artwork adorns the walls of a Second World War-era officers club in the North Atlantic city of St. Johns -- cartoons painted onto ship gun shields that convey stories of courage and cowardice, resolve and resilience, triumph...Daugiau...
Illustrated with more than 100 submarine artworks, Technical Guide: Modern Submarines is an essential reference guide for modellers and naval warfare enthusiasts....Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 09-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: William Collins, ISBN-13: 9780008644895)
A superb work of history JAMES HOLLAND A thrilling account from a master of Second World War history DAN SNOW A landmark history of the U-Boat war told through the experiences and recollectio...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 02-Oct-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682475850)
This book outlines the various threats that cyber warfare poses to operations in the maritime environment (defined broadly) and the abilities of modern navies to defend against those threats. It explains how navies are organized and equipped for cybe...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Mushroom Model Publications, ISBN-13: 9788366549678)
This series of books provides details of all USN warships from 1893 to the present day. Every class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ships history and develo...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 30-Sep-2025, Paperback / softback, Leidėjas: State House Press / McWhiney Foundation Press, ISBN-13: 9781649670274)
Few topics have fascinated American readers more than the Civil War. Occurring as it did at the beginning of a new industrial age, it fostered a wide variety of strange and innovation contraptions that shaped the course of the conflict. Texans we...Daugiau...
Hitlers U-boats posed a severe threat to Britain during the Second World War, endangering both its survival and the possibility of defeating Germany. Britain needed over a million tons of imports weekly to support the war effort, but Allied shipping...Daugiau...
Following the War of the Spanish Succession (17021713)generally known in the Americas as Queen Annes Wara dramatic, decade-long wave of sea-robbery plagued the Atlantic rim. Often glamorized as the Golden Age of Piracy, that period saw such col...Daugiau...
An illustrated history of the first Pacific War, which saw the United States transform itself into an outward-looking, expansionist great power. An illustrated history of the first Pacific War, which saw the United States tra...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682475775)
This book lays out in specific detail how to bring about a renaissance in American shipping that can restore the foundations of naval shipbuilding required for a fleet able to compete and fight China-- Provided by publisher. Since U.S. N...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 25-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682478578)
As enmity between China and Russia and the West deepens, and as the Chinese navy grows, the United States finds itself more and more in the situation it faced during the Cold War. Again, the United States depends on access to the world, and again a...Daugiau...
(Išleidimo metai: 18-Sep-2025, Hardback, Leidėjas: Naval Institute Press, ISBN-13: 9781682475676)
Battleship New Jersey offers the complete history of this long-storied ship from its keel laying in 1940, across all major naval conflicts of the 20th Century from WWII, Korea and Vietnam, and into the Persian Gulf-- Provided by publisher....Daugiau...
