This revised, updated and expanded new edition of Geoffrey Till's acclaimed textbook provides an invaluable guide for anyone interested in the changing and crucial role of seapower in the twenty-first century.
This volume is a highly original "big think" analysis of five states whose success--and eventual failure--is a subject of enduring interest, by a scholar at the top of his game.
This is the first time in paperback for this standard biography of Fleet Admiral Ernest J. King, who was the controversial architect of the American victory in the Pacific.
From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world’s most important bodies of water, providing the story of ...
... famously brandishing fresh Carthaginian figs in the Senate, Cato cannot have been alarmed by Carthaginian agriculture; he had read Mago's famous agricultural encyclopaedia and, like many another elite Roman, exploited its wisdom.
This work reframes sixteenth-century history , incorporating the Ottoman empire more thoroughly into European, Asian and world history.
This volume explains the evolution of maritime strategy through the twentieth century, and concludes with some speculations about its future in the next century.
This multi-authored volume is an important resource for professionals and students alike who seek information on the use of naval forces in wartime. It breaks new ground in theorizing about...
Read by Kaiser Wilhelm, both Roosevelts, and other leaders, this classic text on the history and tactics of naval warfare had a profound effect on the imperial policies of all major powers.
This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order.
This book, first published in 1991, provides a major analysis of the prelude to the US’s Cold War maritime strategy, showing how NATO’s maritime forces were organised in the period.