American Amphibious Warfare offers analysis of the early amphibious landing operations of American forces and thus fills in a gap in scholarship on U.S. military and warfighting history. By focusing o
Drawing on interviews, correspondence and declassified secret U.S. State Department documents, the author chronicles the life of a Jewish U.S. midshipman whose destroyer survived both a typhoon and a
The Recipient's Son is a coming of age story set at the U.S. Naval Academy in the 1990's By the author of Proximity, it tells the story of Donald Durago, a young man whose father was killed in the Vi
Security governance in the second decade of the 21st century is ill-serving the American people. Left uncorrected, civic life and national continuity will remain increasingly at risk. At stake well
Called back to active duty after a dishonorable discharge, Connor Stark's new assignment is to help battle pirates who are capturing ships off the Horn of Africa and blocking access to oil fields.
The American military is currently experiencing its largest demobilization in history. Nearly two million soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen have been deployed in the recent conflict and most will
During WWII, American military personnel and civilians captured by the Japanese on the Pacific island of Guam were shipped to Japan to be used as labor for Japanese industries. There they suffered ill
The history of the German cavalry, a combat arm that not only survived World War I but also rode to war again in 1939 Despite the enduring popular image of the blitzkrieg of World War II, the German A
No one escaped whole from the fall of Saigon. We Americans were all damaged. The Last of the Annamese is about the Vietnamese and Americans who escaped from Vietnam in April 1975, those who decided to
Now in paperback this standard of building ship models deals with the latest materials and techniques. These new materials have prompted innovative techniques, which are comprehensively demonstrated i
"A superb new history of America's twenty-year conflict with Iraq. John Ballard examines the entire scope of America's military effort from the U.S. response to Saddam's 1990 invasion of Kuwait all t
In this new edition, Bernard Cole revises his acclaimed study of China's Navy as it continues to grow in the unfolding twenty-first century while the U.S. Navy is shrinking. The Great Wall at Sea, Se
"Attacks in the Fallujah peaked in 2006 when American and Iraqi government forces struggled with a reinvigorated insurgency and the prospect of premature withdrawal by U.S. forces. Fallujah Awakens te
A classic of Great War naval literature published over eighty-five years ago, Endless Story remains the only comprehensive account of the services of the Royal Navy’s small craft during the First Worl
The Japanese invaded the Solomon Islands in May 1942 with the aim of building an airfield at Guadalcanal. After an epic six month struggle they were repulsed and the island became a staging base for U
The rapid evolution of radio and radar systems for military use during World War II, and devices to counter them, led to a technological battle that neither the Axis nor the Allied powers could afford
Naval Victoria Crosses (VCs) have been awarded to deserving service members in places as far apart in time and distance as the Baltic in 1854 and Japan in 1945; in the trenches from the Crimea to the
What is the purpose of navies in the modern world, and what types of warship does this require? This volume tackles these questions by looking at naval developments, both technological and operational
The origins of a permanent French sailing navy can be traced to the work of Cardinal Richelieu in the 1620s, but a virtually new Marine Royale had to be re-created by Colbert from 1661. Thereafter, Lo
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artifacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the s
