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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 314
Book Description
The U.S. Navy in the Modern World Series
Author: Modern U. S. Navy Destroyers
Author: Stephen F. TomajczykPublisher:
ISBN: 9781610607339
Category : Destroyers (Warships)
Languages : en
Pages : 102
Book Description
Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy
Author: James M. MorrisPublisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 0810874792
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 572
Book Description
The second edition of Historical Dictionary of the United States Navy covers U.S. Naval developments, personnel, and engagements from the colonial times to the present day. This is done through a chronology, an introductory essay, an extensive bibliography, and over 600 cross-referenced dictionary entries on people, places, events and other terminology of the Navy. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about the United States Navy.
Navies in Modern World History
Author: Lawrence SondhausPublisher: Reaktion Books
ISBN: 9781861892027
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 348
Book Description
"Navies in Modern World History traces the role of navies in world history from the early nineteenth century, through both World Wars, to the onset of the twenty-first century. Lawrence Sondhaus examines the navies of Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Japan, Brazil, Chile and the Soviet Union, demonstrating the variety of ways in which these countries have made decisive use of naval power, and the challenges these navies faced when assembling equipment and stores, training sailors, and undertaking various missions, and shows in what ways the results helped change the course of modern world history." "This book also deals with aircraft carrier design and naval aviation in the second half of the twentieth century, and the leading role of navies and shipbuilders in key technological innovations of the nineteenth century and early twentieth, including advances in steam power, armour, guns and torpedoes. Today, technological break-throughs are centred around naval stealth and maritime propulsion systems. Special attention is devoted to the evolving state of naval technology, showing how the relative industrial capabilities of seafaring countries have been reflected in their maritime building programmes, providing an important link between the evolution of modern national fleets and the broader history of the period." Editeur
The United States Navy in World War II
Author: Mark StillePublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472848039
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 396
Book Description
A comprehensive overview of the strategy, operations and vessels of the United States Navy from 1941 to 1945. Although slowly building its navy while neutral during the early years of World War II, the US was struck a serious blow when its battleships, the lynchpin of US naval doctrine, were the target of the dramatic attack at Pearl Harbor. In the Pacific Theatre, the US was thereafter locked into a head to head struggle with the impressive Imperial Japanese Navy, fighting a series of major battles in the Coral Sea, at Midway, the Philippine Sea, Leyte Gulf and Okinawa in the struggle for supremacy over Japan. Having avoided the decisive defeat sought by the IJN, the US increased industrial production and by the end of the war, the US Navy was larger than any other in the world. Meanwhile in the west, the US Navy operated on a second front, supporting landings in North Africa, Sicily, and Italy, and in 1944 played a significant part in the D-Day landings, the largest and most complex amphibious operation of all time. Written by an acknowledged expert and incorporating extensive illustrations including photographs, maps and colour artwork, this book offers a detailed look at the strategy, operations and vessels of the US Navy in World War II.
Monthly Catalog of United States Government Publications
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Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 984
Book Description
Cordon of Steel
Author: Curtis A. UtzPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 30
Book Description
Monthly Catalogue, United States Public Documents
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ISBN:
Category : Government publications
Languages : en
Pages : 980
Book Description
From Dam Neck to Okinawa
Author: Robert F. WallacePublisher: Department of the Navy
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 68
Book Description
United States Navy in the Modern World Series, No. 5. By Robert F. Wallace. Edited by Jeffrey G. Barlow. Offers a unique perspective on the effectiveness of the training program developed to enhance the United States Navy fleet's antiaircraft defense.
Seapower
Author: Geoffrey TillPublisher: Psychology Press
ISBN: 0714655422
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 415
Book Description
At the beginning of the 21st century much has remained the same in naval terms but much has changed. Geoffrey Till's study is an exploration of how change will impact upon the world's navies.
