This classic history of the Great War at sea combines graphic and stirring accounts of all the principal naval engagements -- battles overseas, in home waters and, for the first time, under the sea--with analysis of the strategy and ...
Displaying 1 - 3 of 3
Naval Battles of the First World War
With the call to action stations in August 1914, the Royal Navy faced its greatest test since the time of Nelson.
Available Formats: Softcover
Hitler's Gateway to the Atlantic
"German Naval Bases in France, 1940-1945"
Employing new research from both German and French sources, the author examines the role that the French Atlantic ports played for the Kriegsmarine during the Second World War.
When the Wehrmacht overran France in May and June of 1940, the German navy’s dream of access to the Atlantic was realized, and Brest, Lorient, St Nazaire, La Pallice and Bordeaux were ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Military Strategy
A General Theory of Power Control
In Military Strategy Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie invented the intellectual framework and terminology with which to understand strategy as a means of control. He synthesized the four existing specific theories of strategy into one general theory that is as valid today as when it was first created. Wylie has written a penetrating new postscript especially for this "Classics of Sea ...
Available Formats: Softcover