A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II “When he is at his best, as he often is in these pages, Kennedy can be …
A sweeping, lavishly illustrated one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II "e;A brilliant and gripping book by a master historian working at …
This “impeccable, myth-busting study” of WWII maritime operations sheds new light on the conflict with sharp analysis and an international perspective (The Sunday Times, UK). …
A bold and authoritative maritime history of World War II which takes a fully international perspective and challenges our existing understanding Command of the oceans was crucial …
An accessible survey of the history of European overseas empires in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries based on new scholarship In this thematic survey, Gabriel Paquette …
How a strategist's ideas were catastrophically ignored in 1914—but shaped Britain’s success in the Second World War and beyond Leading historian Andrew Lambert shows how, as a …
A major new history of the Royal Navy during the tumultuous age of revolution The French Revolutionary Wars catapulted Britain into a conflict against a new enemy: Republican …
The gripping account of the U.S. Navy’s fast carrier force—and how its Central Pacific campaign in 1944 marked the achievement of American naval supremacy Task Force 58 was World …
One of the most eminent historians of our age investigates the extraordinary success of five small maritime states “A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in …
"e;A fascinating geopolitical chronicle . . . A superb survey of the perennial opportunities and risks in what Herman Melville called 'the watery part of the world.'"e; …
