Author: Office of Naval ResearchCarderock Division Naval
Publisher: National Academies Press
Keywords: symposium, second, twenty, hydrodynamics, naval
Number of Pages: 1023
Published: 1999-01-15
List price: $187.00
ISBN-10: 0309065372
ISBN-13: 9780309065375
Conference held August 9-14, 1998 in Washington, D.C. Organized jointly by the Office of Naval Research, The NRC and the Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division. Promotes the technical exchange of naval research developments of common interest to all the countries of the world.
Author: Norman Friedman
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: naval, systems, world, institute, guide, weapons, weapon
Number of Pages: 858
Published: 2006-09-30
List price: $250.00
ISBN-10: 1557502625
ISBN-13: 9781557502629
Long recognized as the most comprehensive reference work available on the subject, this guide remains the only complete reference to the weapons currently in service in ships, submarines, and naval aircraft around the world. It is the only book of its type to explain the transformation of the U.S. Navy into a network-centric force, a transformation that has had immense consequences for choices of tactics, weapons, services, and the systems coordinating them. This guide also offers unparalleled coverage of the weapons, sensors, and command systems of the world’s navies, both those the U.S. Na
Author: Norman Polmar
Publisher: Potomac Books Inc.
Keywords: naval, magazine, history, aircraft, historic
Number of Pages: 192
Published: 2004-01-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1574885723
ISBN-13: 9781574885729
Norman Polmar’s book is a behind-the-scenes look at thirty-two important U.S. Navy and Marine Corps aircraft. These entries are based on the author’s "Historic Aircraft" column, appearing in NAVAL HISTORY MAGAZINE. The aircraft selected, some famous and others virtually unknown, represent a mix of types: fighters, dive-bombers, patrol planes, transports, trainers, and helicopters, including the Pitcairn XOP-1 autogiro, the first rotary-wing aircraft to be operated by the Navy and Marines. They span the period from the Vought VE-7, the first type to take off from the Navy’s first carrier,
Author: Robert Shenk
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: naval, writing, institute, guide
Number of Pages: 374
Published: 1997-05
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1557508313
ISBN-13: 9781557508317
Written by a naval officer who taught English at two service academies, this is the third edition of the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services. The book is widely used by officers, enlisted men and women and civilians in both the Navy and Marine Corps. Shenk provides sound, practical advice on all common naval writing assignments. This third edition adds a new chapter on writing emails and updates the whole book to take account of the way naval writing is done in today’s computer age.
Author: Robert Shenk
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Keywords: naval, gold, blue, guide, institute, writing
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-14
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1591148227
ISBN-13: 9781591148227
Written by a naval officer who taught English at two service academies, this is the third edition of the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services. The book is widely used by officers, enlisted men and women and civilians in both the Navy and Marine Corps. Shenk provides sound, practical advice on all common naval writing assignments. This third edition adds a new chapter on writing emails and updates the whole book to take account of the way naval writing is done in today’s computer age.
Author: Captain Frederick Marryat
Publisher: McBooks Press
Keywords: naval, fiction, classics, officer, frank, mildmay
Number of Pages: 352
Published: 1997-09-01
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0935526390
ISBN-13: 9780935526394
Frank Mildmay is a rogue and a rascal who cuts a memorable swath as he moves up the ranks of the early 19th-century Royal Navy. Whether seducing pretty girls ashore, braving hurricanes at sea or scrambling aboard a French privateer with cutlass bared, Mildmay and his adventures live on!
Author: James Pritchard
Publisher: McGill-Queen’s University Pre
Keywords: naval, north, america, expedition, french, disaster, anatomy
Number of Pages: 322
Published: 1995-11-01
List price: $95.00
ISBN-10: 0773513256
ISBN-13: 9780773513259
This is an account of one of the most ambitious and catastrophic French naval expeditions in the 18th century, resulting in the deaths of up to 8000 men. It exposes the ambitions and frailties of men, the arbitrariness of success, and the limits of power in the 18th century. Intended as a riposte to the Anglo-American capture of Loisbourg in 1745, the so-called d’Enville expedition set out from France the following year to secure Canada, recapture Acadia and Louisbourg, and ravage the New England coast as far south as Boston. Many of the 64 French vessels involved did not return and esti
