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Seapower - 2nd Edition
Taylor and Francis 2009; US$ 53.95The sea has always been central to human development as a source of resources, and as a means of transportation, information-exchange and strategic dominion. It has been the basis for our prosperity and security. This is even more the case, now, in the early 21st century, with the emergence of an increasingly globalized world trading system. Navies... more...
Crossing the Line
Amsterdam University Press 2006; US$ 12.50Lively analyses on the changing meanings of elaborate ceremonies when crossing the equator more...
The Marines of Montford Point
The University of North Carolina Press 2007; US$ 19.95With an executive order from President Franklin Roosevelt in 1941, the United States Marine Corps--the last all-white branch of the U.S. military--was forced to begin recruiting and enlisting African Americans. The first black recruits received basic training at the segregated Camp Montford Point, adjacent to Camp Lejeune, near Jacksonville, North... more...
The Twilight Warriors
Crown Publishing Group 2010; US$ 15.00The Twilight Warriors , winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final?and most brutal?battle of the Pacific war: Okinawa. April 1945. The end of World War II finally appears to be nearing. The Third Reich is collapsing... more...
Brown-, Green- and Blue-Water Fleets
ABC-CLIO 2001; US$ 150.00From riverine operations in the American Civil War and China in the 1860s to the major fleet engagements of the World Wars, plus more recent naval actions in the Falklands/Malvenas War and Gulf War, Lindberg and Todd methodically show how geography has shaped the strategy, tactics, and tools of naval warfare. Alfred T. Mahan was perhaps the first naval... more...
The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783
MobileReference.com 2010; US$ 3.99The Influence of Sea Power Upon History: 1660-1783 is an influential treatise on naval warfare written in 1890 by Alfred Thayer Mahan. It details the role of sea power throughout history and discusses the various factors needed to support a strong navy. Excerpted from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. more...
Naval Power and Expeditionary Wars
Taylor and Francis 2010; US$ 130.00This book examines the nature and character of naval expeditionary warfare, in particular in peripheral campaigns, and the contribution of such campaigns to the achievement of strategic victory. Naval powers, which can lack the massive ground forces to win in the main theatre, often choose a secondary theatre accessible to them by sea and difficult... more...
The Barbary Wars
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2007; US$ 15.99The history of America's conflict with the piratical states of the Mediterranean runs through the presidencies of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; the adoption of the Constitution; the Quasi-War with France and the War of 1812; the construction of a full-time professional navy; and, most important, the nation's haltering steps toward commercial... more...
Turning the Tide
Basic Books 2012; US$ 18.99A rousing military history of the Battle of the Atlantic, when a high-seas showdown between the Allies and wolf packs of U-boats determined the outcome of the war against Nazi Germany. more...









