An on-the-ground history of American empire Say the word “Guantanamo” and orange jumpsuits, chain-link fences, torture, and indefinite detention come to mind. To critics the world over, Guantanamo Bay
From The-Famous Civil War Ironclads that clashed in its waters to the great battleships that gathered off Norfolk's Sewell's Point as part of President Theodore Roosevelt's Great White Fleet, the Hamp
Established as America's first foreign naval base following the Spanish-American War, Guantaanamo is now more often thought of as our Devil's Island. This book takes readers beyond the orange-jumpsuit
During the past century, the Royal Navy and its support services at Portsmouth dockyard have experienced a pace of change not seen since the 15th century. This book examines the impact of that change
Guantanamo has become a symbol of what has gone wrong in the War on Terror. Yet Guantanamo is more than a U.S. naval base and prison in Cuba, it is a town, and our military occupation there has requir
There are few places in the world more at ease with the steady march of naval history than Norfolk and Tidewater Virginia. Bruce Linder's detailed history and exciting images of the U.S. Navy in Hampt
Including more than two hundred vintage photographs and illustrations, Portsmouth Harbor's Military and Naval Heritage chronicles the history of the Piscataqua River's naval shipyard and harbor defens
Revised and updated, this is the story of the U.S. Navy’s premier facility for research, development, testing, and evaluation of energetic materials,” the chemical compounds used in gun and rocket pro
