The Norman Friedman Illustrated Design History series of U.S. warships books has been an industry standard for three decades and has sold thousands of copies worldwide. To mark and celebrate this achievement, the Naval Institute Press is proud to make these books available once more. Digitally remastered for enhanced photo resolution and quality, corrected, and updated, this series will continue to ...
The first biography of the Admiral credited with turning the Leyte Gulf battle from defeat to victory in 1944 and who ordered the first shot against the Japanese at Pearl Harbor. John F. Wukovits uses primary source materials that include handwritten commentary on the battle of Leyte. Although a life biographer, the focus is on Sprague's contributions to naval aviation ...
This book presents a detailed picture of the complex and difficult process the U.S. Navy and its NATO allies faced in devising the NATO naval command structure, and explores NATO's place today in the realignment of nations.
Breaking with tradition, Admiral William Owens—vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and one of the nation's foremost strategic thinkers—prescribes new roles and missions and revolutionary new ships and aircraft needed for a new Navy, and lets readers in on their planning.
At the outbreak of the War of 1812, a group of men, women, and children were shipwrecked on a deserted island in the Falklands. This chronicle of their survival adventures provides more surprising twists than a novel when an American and a British ship come to the rescue.