US Naval Institute Press
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Super Destroyers: From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant Surface Warship of Today
$71.00 Add to cartFrom the very beginnings of torpedo craft, all naval powers have seen the occasional need for larger, more powerful or in other respects special designs that stand outside the contemporary norms for f… [more below]
- Author: Stern, Robert C.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1526777452
- Language: English
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Algorithms of Armageddon: The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on Future Wars
$29.95 Read moreIt is unclear if U.S. policy makers and military leaders fully realize that we have already been thrust into an artificial intelligence (AI) race with authoritarian powers. Today, the United States’ p… [more below]
- Author: Galdorisi, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 161251541X
- Language: English
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The War for Ukraine: Strategy and Adaptation Under Fire
$34.95 Add to cartThe Russo-Ukraine War is a vital learning opportunity for military strategists across the globe. The first and clearest lesson to be gleaned from it is this: the soundness of a military’s strategy an
- Author: Ryan, Mick
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: August 15 2024
- ISBN10: 1682479528
- Language: English
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Run Silent, Run Deep
$33.95 Read moreUniversally praised for its powerfully authentic depiction of submarine warfare, Run Silent, Run Deep was an immediate success when published in 1955 and shot to the top of best-seller lists nationwid… [more below]
- Series: Classics of Naval Literature
- Author: Beach, Edward L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 15 2016
- ISBN10: 0870215574
- Language: English
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The Mother of All Battles: Saddam Hussein’s Strategic Plan for the Persian Gulf War
$32.00 Add to cartEvents in this story of the “Mother of All Battles,” as Saddam designated the 1991 war, are drawn from primary Iraqi sources, including government documents, video and audiotapes, maps, and photograph… [more below]
- Author: Woods, Kevin M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149428
- Language: English
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The Barrier and Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June 1942
$28.95 Add to cartThe second part of H. P. Willmott’s three-volume history of the war in the Pacific, this work tells how Japan arrived at a situation in which war with the United States was the only means of ensuring … [more below]
- Author: Willmott, H. P.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: October 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1591149495
- Language: English
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Corsair: The F4U in World War II and Korea
$26.95 Add to cartThis is the remarkable story of an airplane that became a legend–with a sleek silhouette and bent wings, it doubled as a day and night fighter, could fly off carriers or from land, and served both as… [more below]
- Author: Tillman, Barrett
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 15 2014
- ISBN10: 1557509948
- Language: English
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Sidewinder: Creative Missile Development at China Lake
$28.95 Add to cartIn the mid-1950s a small group of overworked, underpaid scientists and engineers on a remote base in the Mojave Desert developed a weapon no one had asked for but everyone in the weapons industry desi… [more below]
- Author: Westrum, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591149819
- Language: English
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True Believer: Inside the Investigation and Capture of Ana Montes, Cuba’s Master Spy
$34.95 Add to cartAna Montes appeared to be a model employee of the Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). Known to her coworkers as the Queen of Cuba, she was an overachiever who advanced quickly through the ranks of Lati… [more below]
- Author: Carmichael, Scott
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682479331
- Language: English
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21st Century Ellis: Operational Art and Strategic Prophecy for the Modern Era
$25.95 Add to cartFor years, the Marine Corps has touted the prescience of Lt. Col. “Pete” Ellis, USMC, who predicted in 1921 that the United States would fight Japan and how the Pacific Theater would be won. Now the w… [more below]
- Series: 21st Century Foundations
- Author: Friedman, Brett A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: March 15 2015
- ISBN10: 1612518079
- Language: English
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Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story
$29.95 Add to cartThis remarkable memoir tells the compelling story of the near-mythic British district officer who helped shape the first great Allied counteroffensive. Scottish-born and Cambridge-educated, Martin Cle… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Clemens, Estate Of Alexandra C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 343
- Publish Date: January 15 2013
- ISBN10: 1591141249
- Language: English
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One More Good Flight: The Amelia Earhart Tragedy
$39.95 Add to cartShortly before embarking on her attempt to circumnavigate the globe, Amelia Earhart confided to a friend, “I have a feeling there is just about one more good flight left in my system and I hope this t… [more below]
- Author: Gillespie, Richard E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1682479382
- Language: English
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From Berkeley to Berlin: How the Rad Lab Helped Avert Nuclear War
$39.95 Add to cartIn November 1960, bolstered by anti-Communist ideologies, John F. Kennedy was elected president of the United States. Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev brandished nuclear diplomacy to force the United … [more below]
- Author: Ramos, Tom Francis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 15 2022
- ISBN10: 1682477533
- Language: English
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War and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944
$32.95 Add to cartWar and Resistance in the Philippines, 1942-1944 repairs the fragmentary and incomplete history of events in the Philippine Islands between the surrender of Allied forces in May 1942 and MacArthur’s r… [more below]
- Author: Morningstar, James K.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1557501718
- Language: English
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Wooden Warship Construction: A History in Ship Models
$39.95 Read moreThe 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… [more below]
- Author: Lavery, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: August 31 2023
- ISBN10: 139902485X
- Language: English
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China Clipper: The Age of the Great Flying Boats
$26.95 Add to cartWhen the China Clipper shattered aviation records on its maiden six-day flight from California to the Orient in 1935, the flying boat became an instant celebrity. This lively history by Robert Gandt t… [more below]
- Author: Gandt, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: October 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1591143039
- Language: English
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Fateful Rendezvous: The Life of Butch O’Hare
$26.95 Add to cartFighter pilot Butch O’Hare became one of America’s heroes in 1942 when he saved the carrier Lexington in what has been called the most daring single action in the history of combat aviation. In fascin… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Lundstrom, John B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 358
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1591142490
- Language: English
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First Class: Women Join the Ranks at the Naval Academy
$25.95 Add to cartWhen Sharon Hanley Disher entered the U.S. Naval Academy with eighty other young women in 1976, she helped end a 131-year all-male tradition at Annapolis. Her entertaining and shocking account of the … [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Disher, Sharon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 362
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1591142164
- Language: English
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Commanding Lincoln’s Navy: Union Naval Leadership During the Civil War
$24.95 Add to cartThe Union Navy played a vital role in winning the Civil War by blockading Confederate ports, cooperating with the Union Army in amphibious assaults, and operating on the Mississippi River and its trib
- Author: Taaffe, Stephen
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 364
- Publish Date: October 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1682479277
- Language: English
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My Men Are My Heroes: The Brad Kasal Story
$26.95 Add to cartMy Men Are My Heroes introduces its readers to a living standard of Marine Corps esprit de corps and military decorum. Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal, the pride of Iowa, is a small town boy who wanted t… [more below]
- Series: Leatherneck Classics
- Author: Helms, Nathaniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 168247934X
- Language: English
