The popular Seedlings series offers irresistible introductions to animals, birds, sea life, insects, and an array of transporationy. Written in a friendly voice, filled with dynamic photos, and featur
Of interest to military planners, historians and naval armaments enthusiasts, this comprehensive examination of the Chinese People's Liberation Army Navy (PLAN) provides detailed analysis of the ships
With the outbreak of World War II, Britain's Royal Navy and her fleet of battleships would be at the forefront of her defence. Yet from a fleet of 12 battleships, ten were already over 20 years old, v
This book describes and illustrates the disguised German commerce-raiders of 1940-43, which haunted the sea-lanes all over the world from the Atlantic to the South Pacific, like the privateers of old
The Navy of the Nuclear Age, 1947-2007, the fifth volume in the monumental U.S. Navy Warship series, presents an all-inclusive compendium of the ships that served in the U.S. Navy from the Cold War up
"Fight 'til she sinks, boys. Don't give up the ship! Burn her."James Lawrence's command, spoken as his final fighting words in the historic 1813 battle between the USS Chesapeake and
Alkire et al. provide a clear understanding of the operational, logistics, and cost trade-offs between three interdependent elements of the Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) program: the number of LCS
During the first quarter of the 20th century, the major naval powers of the world built hundreds of Dreadnought-style battleships. Today there is only one.The battleship Texas was for a time the most
The third volume of The U.S. Navy Warship Series covers the fifty-year period from 1883-1922. In 1883, Congress authorized the first ships of the "New Navy" and ordered removal of all obsolete ships.
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 transforma
The Sailing Navy, 1775-1854, the first volume in the definitive five-volume U.S. Navy Warship series, comprehensively details all aspects of the ships that sailed in the nascent stages of the U.S. Nav
Like the builders of the Avro Arrow, the pioneers of hydrofoils are celebrated in this book for their world-class accomplishments.When Alexander Graham Bell was experimenting with flying machines, he
The first were wood and cloth, the wood perhaps girded by sea-proof metal, the cloth rolled out for what seemed like acres overhead. They established traditions of practice, strategy, shipboard life,
Although the state of Missouri is located hundreds of miles from the nearest ocean, ships with Missouri names and connections have served the United States for decades. In Missouri at Sea, Richard Sch
By 1805 the 44-gun frigate was probably viewed as a failed experiment whilst the 38-gun frigate was viewed as the vessel of the future. Ten years later every navy was building 44-gun frigates and toda
