This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based upon key Royal Navy operations in the twentieth century to draw out enduring principles about maritime power and to examine the strengths and limitations of maritime forces as instruments of national policy. Individual chapters focus on campaigns and operations from both World Wars and a series of post-1945 crises and conflicts from the Palestine Patrol in the 1940s to Royal Navy operations in support of British policy in the 1990s. Each case...
This book adopts an innovative new approach to examine the role of maritime power and the utility of navies. It uses a number of case studies based up...
This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It covers the development of educational provision, from the first 1702 Order in Council appointing schoolmasters to serve in operational warships, to the laying of the foundation stone of the present Royal Naval College Dartmouth in 1902.
Educating the Royal Navy 1702-1902 includes the establishment of the Royal Navy 's first naval academy, the commissioning of the officer training ship HMS Britannia, and the conduct of education at...
This volume provides the first comprehensive history of education and training for officers of the Royal Navy in the eighteenth and nineteenth cent...
An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations.
This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied heavily on the surface for movement and charging their batteries. This pattern was repeated in WWII until Allied anti-submarine countermeasures had forced the Germans to modify their existing U-boats with the schnorkel. Countermeasures along also pushed the development of high-speed U-boats capable of continuously submerged operations.
This study...
An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations.
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.
Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key events in the fight for the Pacific.
Detailing the background to the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor it shows how the decision-makers in Washington, following consultation with the leaders of Britain, Australia and New Zealand, moved to stop Japan from its drive toward...
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific.
Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti-submarine campaigns from the air in the wider history of the First World War.
The Royal Naval Air Service invested heavily in aircraft of all types-aeroplanes, seaplanes, airships, and kite balloons-in order to counter the German U-boats. Under the Royal Air Force, the air campaign against U-boats continued uninterrupted. Aircraft bombed German U-boat bases in Flanders, conducted area and 'hunting' patrols around the coasts of Britain,...
Investigating the employment of British aircraft against German submarines during the final years of the First World War, this new book places anti...
Charles Middleton (1726-1813) ruled the British naval shore establishement for a dozen years of war and peace. As Controller of the Navy, he animated the vital link between policy-makers in Whitehall and commanders at sea. Appointed in 1778 in the midst of the American War of Independence, he stayed on in peacetime to prepare the navy for the even greater emergencies of the French revolutionary and Napoleonic wars.
Charles Middleton (1726-1813) ruled the British naval shore establishement for a dozen years of war and peace. As Controller of the Navy, he animated ...
Much writing about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of capitalist development. This text argues that the incidence of bonded labour is much greater than generally supposed, and that in certain situations rural employers prefer an unfree workforce.
Much writing about agragarian change in the Third World assumes that unfree relations are archaic forms, destined to be eliminated in the course of ca...
This unique account describes the interplay of factors in the emergence of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from a coastal defence force in 1904 to a respectable battle force by the eve of World War I.
This unique account describes the interplay of factors in the emergence of the Austro-Hungarian Navy from a coastal defence force in 1904 to a respect...
Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability between the armistice in 1919 and the onset of the second world German submarine attack on Britain's maritime trade in 1939. Well researched and yet accessibly written, this book challenges the widespread belief that the Royal Navy failed to anticipate the threat of the U-boat in the Second World War.
Britain's Anti-Submarine Capability, 1919-1939is the first unified study of the development of Britain's anti-submarine capability betwe...
This new book brings together Britain's leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current day.
This new volume describes in depth the beginnings of formalized thought about the conduct of naval operations in the 18th Century, its transformation through the impact of industrialization in the 19th Century and its application in the two World Wars of the twentieth. This book concludes...
This new book brings together Britain's leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thi...
