• Autobiography of a fighter and test pilot during World War II and Vietnam • Among first marines to fly a helicopter • First... Læs mere
Features the fresh thinking of twenty-eight leading authors from a variety of military and national security disciplines. This collection of essays is the outcome of a... Læs mere
Originally published in 1990, Sky Ships is the most comprehensive history of US Navy airships ever written. The Naval Institute Press is releasing this new edition - complete with two hundred new photographs--to commemorate the twenty-fifth anniversary of the book's publication.
Admiral Raoul Castex is France's most important modern naval strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence of Castex's original five volume study, Theories... Læs mere
In a wartime Navy of giant carriers and battleships, tiny wooden subchasers did not command much attention. Yet these 110-foot warships, manned mostly by inexperienced reservists, performed vital chores for the fleet everywhere there was action in World War II.
In the summer of 1814 a squadron of Royal Navy ships attacked the tiny Connecticut seaport of Stonington, and declared its... Læs mere
`A compelling portrait of a quiet hero, of the racial climate between 1926 and 1959, and of the last days of propeller-driven naval aviation.’ - Booklist Jesse Leroy Brown was born in 1926 to sharecroppers in segregated southern USA.
Presents the story of the French navy in World War II. Few people realize the tragic situation of a country forced to capitulate to a traditional enemy. After this... Læs mere