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Drawing on the testimony of hundreds of participants, the author vividly recounts Allied amphibious landings in World War II.

A fascinating collection of photographs from the archives of the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, the Imperial War Museum, the Storico Navale in Venice, and private collections.

Can all-out war be avoided? A race between the Soviet and American fleets to find an errant Russian submarine takes place across 4, 000 miles of ocean. The deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in the murky depths of the Atlantic brings the superpowers to the brink of disaster.

Drawn from the pages of Naval History and Proceedings magazines, among those interviewed are John Bulkeley, James Webb, Dick Cheney, Robert Ballard, and Herman Wouk.

A lively historical account of the glamorous decades of naval aviation between the world wars.

A moving recount of the Marine who saw combat in three wars and later escaped from a POW camp during the Korean War.

A collection of nineteen biographical essays of admirals who held command in battle.

This series draws on the incomparable collection of the National Maritime Museum at Greenwich to illustrate the great maritime events of the prephotographic era.

This book is the first to profile the heroic retired naval officers who took command of the merchant convoys and helped turn the tide of war.

This epic air story of World War II is a powerful, poignant cross-section of the global air conflict from the perspective of British and American pilots.

A richly detailed story about two naval officers whose separate paths converge during a fierce battle between the Argus and the Pelican.

As paper navigational charts are replaced by vector images on computer screens, magnetic compasses enhanced by digital flux gate technology, and chronometers joined by atomic clocks, the demand has been mounting for an extensive update to the classic reference known worldwide as Dutton's. To meet the varied needs of today's recreational, naval, and commercial navigators the Naval Institute introduces this new edition of a guide that has remain...

In 1972 following the huge success of Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward L. Beach's second novel of submarine warfare was published to great acclaim. Like its predecessor, Dust on the Sea was lauded for its authentic portrayal of what it meant to be a submariner during the desperate years of World War II. Tense, dramatic, rich in technical and tactical detail, the book draws on Beach's years of experience as a submariner in the U.S. Navy. Describing...

This dramatic account fully documents the pioneering overflight of some 30, 000 square miles of the High Arctic in open-cockpit biplanes.