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Most Secret and Confidential
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 24.95In today's world of satellites and electronic spying it is hard to appreciate the difficulties involved two centuries ago in collecting and disseminating secret intelligence in a time of war. This book provides a close-up look at the ingenious methods used to obtain and analyze secret material and deliver it to operational forces at sea during the... more...
Flash Point North Korea
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 16.96During a dark period of U.S. military history in the late 1960s, North Korean forces captured an American naval vessel and shot down an unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, taking the lives of thirty-one U.S. sailors and Marines and striking a damaging blow to American honor. This look back to that earlier time of crisis provides serious food for thought... more...
Preparing for Blockade 1885-1914
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2013; US$ 134.95It argued in this book that, from the 1880s there was a widely shared, but largely unwritten, strategic acceptance in British naval thinking that in a war with a major power the response would be to attack enemy trade. In line with the current view that seapower depends upon free communications, the book concludes by asserting that the primary role... more...
Paullin's History of Naval Administration 1775-1911
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 40.95The classic collection of articles from the U.S. Naval Institute Proceedings, now in ebook form. more...
Ask the Chief
Naval Institute Press 2012; US$ 18.95Whenever sailors are confronted with 'unsolvable' problems--be it a fouled anchor or paint that won't dry--they often throw up their hands and exclaim, 'We'd better ask the Chief.' That refrain, heard for generations throughout the Navy, is the theme for Jack Leahy's newest book. Written at sea, his book provides a compelling picture of the Chief... more...
Midshipmen and Quarterdeck Boys in the British Navy, 1771-1831
Boydell & Brewer 2012; US$ 99.00The book engages with debates about whether midshipmen and other "young gentlemen" were increasingly aristocratic - and increasingly ill-disciplined; and shows how their aspirations for advancement and glory were often frustrated. more...
Joining the United States Navy
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 25.00This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Navy. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for basic training, and learning what to expect at basic recruit training. The goal of the... more...
Joining the United States Army
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers 2012; US$ 25.00This book is for the teenager or young adult who is interested in enlisting in the United States Army. It will walk him or her through the enlistment and recruit training process: making the decision to join the military, talking to recruiters, getting qualified, preparing for and learning what to expect at basic recruit training. The goal of the McFarland... more...
The Challenges of Command
Ashgate Publishing Ltd 2011; US$ 124.95This book explores the ways that the Edwardian naval arms race forced the Royal Navy to address deep-seated structural problems caused by rapidly changing technology. It charts how an institution organised for three hundred years around sailing ships, faced the challenge of steel and steam, and what that meant for an officer class recruited largely... more...
The Making of the Modern Admiralty
Cambridge University Press 2011; US$ 84.00An important new history of decision-making and policy-making in the British Admiralty from Trafalgar to the aftermath of Jutland. more...









