Author: Fred Thomas JanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715344767
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1898
Author: Fred Thomas JanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715344767
Category : Warships
Languages : en
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1898
Author: Fred Thomas JanePublisher:
ISBN: 9780715344767
Category : Warships
Languages : de
Pages : 228
Book Description
Jane's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1898
Author: Frederick Thomas JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navies
Languages : de
Pages : 218
Book Description
Jane's fighting ships
Author: Richard SharpePublisher:
ISBN: 9780710615466
Category : Navies
Languages : en
Pages : 1036
Book Description
Containing international data on over 8000 warships, auxiliaries and armed vessels, this updated edition gives information on the operational strengths of each navy, new construction ships, modernization programmes, new weapon systems and new capabilities. It is also available on CD-ROM and by EIS.
Jane's All the World's Aircraft
Author: Warships of the World to 1900
Author: Lincoln P. PainePublisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN: 9780395984147
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Lincoln P. Paine's SHIPS OF THE WORLD: AN HISTORICAL HISTORICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA was honored as one of the best reference books of the year by the New York Public Library, and Library Journal described it as "clearly the most fascinating book of the year." Now, in two equally fascinating new books, Paine focuses on two of the most interesting areas of maritime history: WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD TO 1900 and SHIPS OF DISCOVERY AND EXPLORATION. WARSHIPS OF THE WORLD TO 1900 traces the history of naval warfare through the stories of more than two hundred of the most famous and important fighting ships, from the earliest triremes and Viking longships to the Mary Rose, Wasa, Bonhomme Richard, HMS Victory, USS Constitution, USS Monitor, and Mikasa. Each ship is described in a vivid short essay that captures its personality as well as its physical characteristics, construction, and history, from the drawing board to the scrap yard or museum. Paintings and photographs show the grandeur and grace of these vessels that helped shape world events. An introductory essay, maps, and a chronology offer the reader a global perspective on the course of naval history from antiquity to the present.
All the World's Fighting Ships
Author: Frederick Thomas JanePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Navies
Languages : en
Pages : 734
Book Description
Sailor
Author: Alan Patrick McGowanPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204
Book Description
Learning War
Author: Trent HonePublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1682472949
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 350
Book Description
Learning War examines the U.S. Navy’s doctrinal development from 1898–1945 and explains why the Navy in that era was so successful as an organization at fostering innovation. A revolutionary study of one of history’s greatest success stories, this book draws profoundly important conclusions that give new insight, not only into how the Navy succeeded in becoming the best naval force in the world, but also into how modern organizations can exploit today’s rapid technological and social changes in their pursuit of success. Trent Hone argues that the Navy created a sophisticated learning system in the early years of the twentieth century that led to repeated innovations in the development of surface warfare tactics and doctrine. The conditions that allowed these innovations to emerge are analyzed through a consideration of the Navy as a complex adaptive system. Learning War is the first major work to apply this complex learning approach to military history. This approach permits a richer understanding of the mechanisms that enable human organizations to evolve, innovate, and learn, and it offers new insights into the history of the United States Navy.
Manila and Santiago
Author: Jim LeekePublisher: Naval Institute Press
ISBN: 1612514146
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 222
Book Description
The U.S. Navy's first two-ocean war was the Spanish-American War of 1898. A war that was global in scope, with the decisive naval battles of war at Manila Bay and Santiago de Cuba separated by two months and over ten thousand miles. During these battles in this quick, modern war, America s New Steel Navy came of age. While the American commanders sailed to war with a technologically advanced fleet, it was the lessons they had learned from Adm. David Farragut in the Civil War that prepared them for victory over the Spaniards. This history of the U.S. Navy s operations in the war provides some memorable portraits of the colorful officers who decided the outcome of these battles: Shang Dewey in the Philippines and Fighting Bob Evans off southern Cuba; Jack Philip conning the Texas and Constructor Hobson scuttling the Merrimac; Clark of the Oregon pushing his battleship around South America; and Adm. William Sampson and Commodore Scott Schley ending their careers in controversy. These officers sailed into battle with a navy of middle-aged lieutenants and overworked bluejackets, along with green naval militiamen. They were accompanied by numerous onboard correspondents, who documented the war.In addition to descriptions of the men who fought or witnessed the pivotal battles on the American side, the book offers sympathetic portraits of several Spanish officers, the Dons for whom American sailors held little personal enmity. Admirals Patricio Montojo and Pasqual Cervera, doomed to sacrifice their forces for the pride of a dying empire, receive particular attention. The first study of the Spanish-American War to be published in many years, this book takes a journalistic approach to the subject, making the conflict and the people involved relevant to today s readers. This work details a war in which victory was determined as much by leadership as by the technology of the American Steel Navy.