Tag: Naval

The Struggle for Sea Power A Naval History of the American Revolution [Audiobook]


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English | February 15, 2016 | ASIN: B01BKSTR7M | M4B@64 kbps | 15h 50m | 442 MB
Author: Sam Willis | Narrator: Derek Perkins
A fascinating naval perspective on one of the greatest of all historical conundrums: How did thirteen isolated colonies, which in 1775 began a war with Britain without a navy or an army, win their independence from the greatest naval and military power on earth?

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Naval Gun


Free Download Ian V.Hogg, John Batchelor – Naval Gun
Blandford Press | 1978 | ISBN: 0713709057 | English | 152 pages | PDF | 135.09 MB
Studies the development of naval guns and armament, illuminates the diverse types of weaponry, and documents the tactical functions and technological evolution of naval guns from the fourteenth century through World War II.

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US Naval Vessels 1943


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Arms & Armour Press | 1986 | ISBN: 0853687862 | English | 288 pages | PDF | 220.65 MB
Photographs and illustrations depicting the might of the US Navy at the height of the Second Wrld War.

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Jutland 1916 The Archaeology of a Naval Battlefield (2024)


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English | 2016 | pages: 272 | ISBN: 1844864162, 1472835417 | EPUB | 98,0 mb
The Battle of Jutland was the largest naval battle and the only full-scale clash of battleships in the First World War. For years the myriad factors contributing to the loss of many of the ships remained a mystery, subject only to speculation and theory.

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Securing the Seas the Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options


Free Download Securing the Seas: the Soviet Naval Challenge and Western Alliance Options By Paul H. Nitze; Leonard Sullivan; Atlantic Council Working Group on Securing the Seas
2019 | 499 Pages | ISBN: 0367286904 | PDF | 51 MB
This book is the effort of experts brought together by the Atlantic Council to analyze the capabilities of the Western Alliance to defend sea lines of communication under various conditions of peace, tension, and war. It reviews the way in which Soviet naval forces have been used in the Alliance.

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Japanese Naval Vessels of World War Two As Seen by U.S. Naval Intelligence


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Arms & Armour Press | 1987 | ISBN: 0853688478 | English | 456 pages | PDF | 273.09 MB
A high-quality reprinting of ONI 41-42, the US Navy’s recognition manual on the Imperial Japanese Navy from WWII. This volume includes several supplemental texts and the overall index. The quality of these volumes is exceptional – photos are reproduced as in the same quality as the original. This is not a comprehensive or detailed overview of the IJN but is instead an amazing piece of history showing what the USN knew about its enemy during the war. An invaluable resource, particularly those interested in American submarine operations during the war as angle-on-the-bow silhouettes are included for most vessels.

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Victory at Sea Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II [Audiobook] (2024)


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English | July 12, 2022 | ASIN: B0B3BWH3Y9 | M4B@128 kbps | 20h 9m | 1.11 GB
Author: Paul Kennedy | Narrator: James Cameron Stewart
A sweeping, lavish one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II

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The Trafalgar Chronicle Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era New Series 5


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English | January 18, 2021 | ISBN: 1526759624 | 192 pages | PDF | 14 Mb
The Trafalgar Chronicle is a prime source of information as well as the publication of choice for new research about the Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ‘Nelson’s Navy’, though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. The central theme of the 2020 issue is ‘portrayals of the Georgian Navy though art, literature, and film’. The feature article, by Gerald Stulc, MD, analyzes film depictions and portraits of Horatio Nelson, throughout his service and after his death, comparing these images to the clinical realities of Nelson’s injuries in battle.

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