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
A Prisoner's Duty
Great Escapes in U.S. Military History
Throughout our nation's history American servicemen and civilians have resisted captivity in every form, drawing on special powers of ingenuity, determination, and patriotism to escape— sometimes repeatedly. Robert Doyle's penetrating look at some extraordinary escapes by Americans breaks new ground in escape psychology, shedding light on the types of people who try to breakout and those who do not. This ...
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 ...
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A Different Kind of Victory
A Biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart
This biography of Admiral Thomas C. Hart is important not only because it is the story of a man whose central guiding force in life was the U.S. Navy, but also because it is a study of some fifty-five significant years of American history. This book, based in part on the twenty-one volume Hart diary, investigates the forces and circumstances ...
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Wings of Valor
Honoring America's Fighter Aces
A hero’s action is always extraordinary because it is so contrary to the basic human instincts of self-preservation and survival. For the fighter Ace, it is often kill or be killed. The men whose images and stories are told in Wings of Valor reflect the courage and determination it takes to get no less than five “kills” in aerial combat ...
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