Books from Naval Inst Press

  • The Bluejackets' Manual
    The Bluejackets' Manual
    By Bill Bearden

    The Bluejackets' Manual

  • One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
    One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander
    By Sandy Woodward, Patrick Robinson

    Adm. Sandy Woodward, a brilliant military tactician, presents a complete picture of the British side of the battle.

  • The Unseen War: Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
    The Unseen War: Allied Air Power and the Takedown of Saddam Hussein
    By Benjamin S. Lambeth, T. Michael Moseley

    The Unseen War offers a comprehensive assessment of the air contribution to the three weeks of major combat that ended the rule of Iraq's Saddam Hussein in 2003.

  • Admiral William A. Moffett: Architect of Naval Aviation
    Admiral William A. Moffett: Architect of Naval Aviation
    By William F. Trimble

    The book is equally candid about the admiral's shortcomings, including his heavy-handed support for airships, a technological dead end that squandered millions and led to Moffett's death in 1933 when he went down with the airship Akron ...

  • Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice
    Capturing Jonathan Pollard: How One of the Most Notorious Spies in American History Was Brought to Justice
    By Ronald J. Olive

    Ronald J. Olive, the NIS assistant special agent who led the whirlwind investigation against Pollard, reveals how one of the most notorious spies in American history was brought to justice.

  • David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making
    David Glasgow Farragut: Admiral in the Making
    By Charles Lee Lewis

    This biography covers David Glasgow Farragut's long career in the navy before the Civil War.

  • A Day in the Life of a Midshipman
    A Day in the Life of a Midshipman
    By Sandra Travis-Bildahl

    President Jimmy Carter , Alan Shepard ( the first American astronaut in space ) , Rear Adm . Richard E. Byrd ( a famous North and South Pole explorer ) , Fleet Adm . Chester W. Nimitz of World War II fame , football players Napoleon ...

  • Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia
    Losing Mogadishu: Testing U.S. Policy in Somalia
    By Jonathan Stevenson

    Part reportage, part analysis, Jonathan Stevenson's book aims both to inform and to provoke opinion.

  • U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
    U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History
    By Norman Friedman

    This is the first book to cover the entire development of U.S. battleships, from the Maine and Texas of 1886, through the Montana class of World War II, right up to the original designs as well as the many modifications and reconstructions ...

  • U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History
    U.S. Submarines Since 1945: An Illustrated Design History
    By Norman Friedman

    "The role of U.S. submarines is currently the focus of an intense debate, and this book contributes to that discussion in the belief that an understanding of the past is necessary to make wise decisions about the future.

  • A Call to Arms: A Novel
    A Call to Arms: A Novel
    By William C. Hammond

    Like the previous books in William C. Hammond's award-winning historical fiction series, this fourth novel features the seafaring adventures of the Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, and an expanding cast of characters.

  • Slade Cutter, Submarine Warrior
    Slade Cutter, Submarine Warrior
    By Carl LaVO

    Although Cutter's brilliant tactics and unusual exploits are the stuff of legend, this is the first biography published about him.

  • Bell Aircraft Since 1935
    By Alain J. Pelletier

    Highly acclaimed for its comprehensive coverage of the aviation industries and their products, from the turn of the century to the present, this popular series includes an abundance of photos and highly accurate line drawings.

  • The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943
    The Messman Chronicles: African Americans in the U.S. Navy, 1932-1943
    By Richard E. Miller

    This book tells the story of those thousands of unheralded sailors of African descent who served in frontline combat with fellow "messmen" of Filipino, Guamanian, and Chinese ancestry from the first day of war to the last.

  • The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-first Century
    The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the Twenty-first Century
    By Bernard D. Cole

    Author Bernard Cole, a professor at the National War College and retired captain in the U.S. Navy, first helps the reader understand China's two-thousand-year-old maritime tradition.

  • The Naval Institute Almanac of the U.S. Navy
    The Naval Institute Almanac of the U.S. Navy
    By Anthony Cowden

    The U.S. Navy is a complex, multi-dimensional organization whose operations are constantly changing with the shifting tides of world events.

  • Dutton's Nautical Navigation
    Dutton's Nautical Navigation
    By Thomas J. Cutler, Benjamin Dutton

    To meet the varied needs of today's recreational, naval, and commercial navigators the Naval Institute introduces this new edition of a guide that has remained the seafarers' choice for more than three-quarters of a century.

  • The Power & the Glory: A Novel
    The Power & the Glory: A Novel
    By William C. Hammond

    Set in the late 1790s during the Quasi-War with France, and featuring the adventures of the seafaring Cutler family of Hingham, Massachusetts, looks at the new American Navy during the Age of Fighting Sail.

  • Potomac Fever: A Memoir of Politics and Public Service
    Potomac Fever: A Memoir of Politics and Public Service
    By John William Middendorf

    In a revealing memoir, the author looks at his time as the head of the Republican National Committee and Senator Barry Goldwater's presidential campaign, as well as an ambassador and secretary of the Navy.

  • Pictures from the Life of Nelson
    Pictures from the Life of Nelson
    By William Clark Russell

    Modern-day readers who revel in the works of Patrick O'Brian and C.S. Forester will find it to be just as enjoyable as did Russell's contemporaries.