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Midway
The Battle That Doomed Japan, the Japanese Navy's Story
By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya; Foreword by Raymond A. Spruance
This landmark study was first published in English by the Naval Institute in 1955 and was added to the Classics of Naval Literature series in 1992. Widely acknowledged for its valuable Japanese insights into the battle that turned that tide of war in the Pacific, the book has made a great impact on American readers over the years. Two Japanese ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Handbook of 19th Century Naval Warfare
By Spencer C. Tucker

Great technological advances were made in almost every area of maritime military activity between 1793 and 1914. At the beginning of the nineteenth century the Napoleonic wars marked the zenith of fighting sail and wooden hulls. By the dawn of the twentieth century, heavily armed iron-hulled warships, powered by oil-fired burners and driven by screw propellers, pointed to the shape ...

Available Formats: Hardcover
Pete Ellis
An Amphibious Warfare Prophet, 1880-1923
By Dirk Anthony Ballendorf and Merrill L. Bartlett
Few Marines have had more impact on the Corps's history than Pete Ellis, and none have been more controversial. This biography of the brilliant yet troubled Marine disputes many long-accepted but unsubstantiated accounts of his life and death. Ellis’s legacy as the father of amphibious warfare is fully examined by the authors, who searched through family papers, fitness reports, Japanese ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Andrew Foote
Civil War Admiral on Western Waters
By Spencer C. Tucker
This biography traces the life and career of one of the U.S. Navy’s first admirals, Andrew Hull Foote. As flag officer of the Union’s western naval forces, Foote was a key figure in the February 1862 Union victories at Forts Henry and Donelson in Tennessee and helped open the Confederate heartland to the Union.
Available Formats: Softcover
Ungentle Goodnights
Life in a Home for Elderly and Disabled Naval Sailors and Marines and the Perilous Seafaring Careers that Brought Them There
By Christopher McKee
Ungentle Goodnights uses the records of the United States Naval Asylum (later the United States Naval Home), a residence for disabled and elderly sailors and Marines established by the U.S. government, to describe the lives of the 541 men who were admitted there as lifetime residents between 1831 and 1866. The records of the Naval Asylum are an especially rich ...
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Female Tars
Women Aboard Ship in the Age of Sail
By Suzanne J. Stark
“For a very long time now I have delighted in histories, letters, records, and memoirs to do with the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century; but Suzanne Stark’s book has told me many, many things I did not know, and I shall keep it on an honored shelf.”—Patrick O’Brian

The wives and female guests of commissioned ...

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