Product Description: Different aspects of medieval warfare form the focus for this collection of essays by both established and new scholars. They range from a reconsideration of several problems of military historiography to explorations of the medieval view of divine influence on the battlefield, and the emergence of complex strategic and tactical norms of naval warfare in the medieval Mediterranean...read more

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Product Description: A collection of 14 true stories, taken from 400 years of war, of how crews and warships battled against overwhelming odds, only to snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. Examples include the sinking of armed raiders by a US merchant in 1942, and Japanese resistance off Bali in 1942...read more

The classic study of war at sea and the objectives, efficacy, and limitations of sea power.

Product Description: Ships, Seafaring and Society is a collection of twenty essays touching on the fragile, yet enduring relationship between man and the sea. Contributors discuss the effect of ships and seafaring in shaping the lives of mariners, merchants, women, and entire communities and the symbiotic relationship between society ashore and the mariners abroad...read more

Traces the development of naval vessels from the ancient Greeks to the present, and looks at submarines, guided missiles, battleships, aircraft carriers, and changes in naval tactics

Emphasizing their uncommon characters and personalities, the author reviews the careers of twenty-one outstanding naval commanders--ranging from Drake to Yamamoto and Spruance--within their historical and naval contexts

Recounts the development and uses of galleons, steamboats, clipper ships, ironclads, aircraft carriers, nuclearpowered warships, and modern liners