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Navies: Organization, distribution, naval situation

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  • Press Gangby Nicholas Rogers

    Continuum International Publishing 2008; US$ 130.00

    The press gang, and its forcible recruitment of sailors to man the Royal Navy in times of war, acquired notoriety for depriving men of their liberty and carrying them away to a harsh life at sea, sometimes for years at a time. Nicholas Rogers explains exactly how the press gang worked, whom it was aimed at and how successful it was in achieving its... more...

  • English/British Naval History to 1815by EUGENE RASOR

    ABC-CLIO 2004; US$ 185.00

    The English/British have always been known as the sailor race with hearts of oak: the Royal Navy as the Senior Service and First Line of Defense. It facilitated the motto: The sun never set on the British Empire. The Royal Navy has exerted a powerful influence on Great Britain, its Empire, Europe, and, ultimately, the world. This superior annotated... more...

  • The Founding of Russia's Navyby EDWARD PHILLIPS

    ABC-CLIO 1995; US$ 158.00

    The reign of Peter the Great (1682-1725), long regarded as the turning point in the Europeanization of Russia, witnessed the establishment of Russia's first modern navy, the Azov Sea fleet. Its creation evokes a fundamental question about the era: was Peter a reformer or a revolutionary? This three-part study examines Russia's maritime experience in... more...

  • Island of Shameby David Vine

    Princeton University Press 2009; US$ 29.95

    The American military base on the island of Diego Garcia is one of the most strategically important and secretive U.S. military installations outside the United States. Located near the remote center of the Indian Ocean and accessible only by military transport, the base was a little-known launch pad for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and may house... more...

  • The Royal Navy, Seapower and Strategy between the Warsby Christopher M. Bell

    Palgrave Macmillan 2000; US$ 144.00

    This revisionist study shows how the Royal Navy's ideas about the meaning and application of seapower shaped its policies during the years between the wars. It examines the navy's ongoing struggle with the Treasury for funds, the real meaning of the 'one power standard', naval strategies for war with the United States, Japan, Germany and Italy, the... more...

  • The Maritime Strategy of China in the Asia-Pacificby Paul An-hao Huang

    The Edwin Mellen Press 2010; US$ 169.95

    This research aims to examine how and why a continental-oriented China has shifted its maritime strategic orientation and naval force structure from its coast toward the far seas in an era of interdependent international system. Generally, China is an ancient continental land power with an incomplete oceanic awareness. With the transformation after... more...

  • The British Navy and the State in the Eighteenth Centuryby Clive Wilkinson

    Boydell & Brewer 2004; US$ 99.00

    The Navy in the eighteenth century, though successful, was costly. Its funding and maintenance made those responsible for it politically vulnerable. more...

  • In the Hour of Victoryby Sam Willis

    Atlantic Books Ltd 2013; US$ 23.32

    Between 1794 and 1815 the Royal Navy repeatedly crushed her enemies at sea in a period of military dominance that equals any in history. When Napoleon eventually died in exile, the Lords of the Admiralty ordered that the original dispatches from seven major fleet battles - The Glorious First of June (1794), St Vincent (1797), Camperdown (1797),... more...

  • The Seabound Coastby William Johnston; William G.P. Rawling; Richard H. Gimblett; John MacFarlane

    Dundurn 2011; US$ 70.00

    Based on extensive archival research, it traces the story of the navy, from its beginnings as Lauriers tinpot navy, and includes the interwar years. more...

  • Far-flung Linesby Greg Kennedy; Keith Neilson

    Taylor and Francis 2013; US$ 53.95

    These studies show how the British Empire used its maritime supremacy to construct and maintain a worldwide defence for its imperial interests. They rebut the idea that British defence policy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries was primarily concerned with the balance of power in Europe. more...