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 ...
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U.S. Battleships
An Illustrated Design History
Available Formats: Hardcover
Scales on War
The Future of America's Military at Risk
Scales on War is a collection of ideas, concepts, and observations about contemporary war taken from over thirty years of research, writing, and personal experience by retired Major General Bob Scales. Scales’ unique style of writing utilizes contemporary military history, current events, and his philosophy of ground warfare to create a very personal and expansive view of the future direction ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Wings for the Fleet
"A Narrative of Naval Aviation's Early Development, 1910-1916"
The men who ventured into the air in the Navy’s first frail aircraft were not only daring—they had vision, persistence, and a nearly unlimited determination to convince the skeptics that their frail kite-like structures could someday possess military value. This is the story of their trials, tragedies, and triumphs. They patched cooling systems with chewing gum, they lived by “crash ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Operation Menace
The Dakar Expedition and the Dudley North Affair
Available for sale only in the U.S. and Canada. Exceptions made for USNI Members.
Continuing on from Arthur Marder’s previous book,From the Dardanelles to Oran: Studies of the Royal Navy in Peace 1915–1940 this next volume investigates the Allied expedition of September that year, with De Gaulle present, which unsuccessfully attempted to break the French at Dakar away from ...
Available Formats: Softcover