Author : Jan Rüger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 53 pages
File Size : 49,94 MB
Release : 2007-06-21
Category : History
ISBN : 0521875765
An innovative study of the cult of the navy in the age of empire.
Author : Owen Rees
Publisher : Casemate Publishers
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 31,83 MB
Release : 2018-12-31
Category : History
ISBN : 1473889847
Naval warfare is the unsung hero of ancient Greek military history, often overshadowed by the more glorified land battles. Owen Rees looks to redress the balance, giving naval battles their due attention. This book presents a selection of thirteen naval battles that span a defining century in ancient Greek history, from the Ionian Revolt and Persian Invasion to the rise of external naval powers in the Mediterranean Sea, such as the Carthaginians.Each battle is set in context. The background, wider military campaigns, and the opposing forces are discussed, followed by a narrative and analysis of the fighting. Finally, the aftermath of the battles are dealt with, looking at the strategic implications of the outcome for both the victor and the defeated. The battle narratives are supported by maps and tactical diagrams, showing the deployment of the fleets and the wider geographical factors involved in battle. Written in an accessible tone, this book successfully shows that Greek naval warfare did not start and end at the battle of Salamis.
Author : John Curry
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 43,82 MB
Release : 2009-03-05
Category : History
ISBN : 1409249484
This book gives potential admirals advice on how to fight their table-top naval battles. No space is too small, nor area too large to accomodate a naval wargame with two contestants or twenty. This book contains rules that allow every sea battle in history to be refought with some of the classic rules of naval wargaming. It includes rules by Fletcher Pratt, Fred Jane, Tony Bath, Jack Scruby etc... This edition includes a new set of rules about Coastal Warfare 1939-45 by David Manley of the Naval Wargames Society
Author : Andrew Gordon
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 722 pages
File Size : 12,80 MB
Release : 2013-02-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1612512321
Foreword by Admiral Sir John Woodward. When published in hardcover in 1997, this book was praised for providing an engrossing education not only in naval strategy and tactics but in Victorian social attitudes and the influence of character on history. In juxtaposing an operational with a cultural theme, the author comes closer than any historian yet to explaining what was behind the often described operations of this famous 1916 battle at Jutland. Although the British fleet was victorious over the Germans, the cost in ships and men was high, and debates have raged within British naval circles ever since about why the Royal Navy was unable to take advantage of the situation. In this book Andrew Gordon focuses on what he calls a fault-line between two incompatible styles of tactical leadership within the Royal Navy and different understandings of the rules of the games.
Author : Norman Friedman
Publisher :
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 20,38 MB
Release : 2019-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781782669074
"To win in the Pacific during World War II, the U.S. Navy had to transform itself technically, tactically, and strategically. It had to create a fleet capable of the unprecedented feat of fighting and winning far from home, without existing bases, in the face of an enemy with numerous bases fighting in his own waters. Much of the credit for the transformation should go to the war gaming conducted at the U.S. Naval War College. Conversely, as we face further demands for transformation, the inter-war experience at the War College offers valuable guidance as to what works, and why, and how."
Author : Nathan Miller
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 38,53 MB
Release : 1997
Category : History
ISBN : 0195110382
From the sinking of the British passenger liner Athenia on September 3, 1939, by a German U-boat (against orders) to the Japanese surrender on board the Missouri on September 2, 1945, War at Sea covers every major naveal battle of World War II. "A first-rate work and the best history of its kind yet written".--Vice Admiral William P. Mack, U.S.N. (Ret.). 30 photos.
Author : Gary Graber
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 48,16 MB
Release : 2016-07-11
Category :
ISBN : 9781535058681
Battleship Captain Warship Counters, 1890-1945 is a book designed for use with the Battleship Captain tactical naval combat game system. It contains 1,500 facsimile warship counters that may be photocopied and mounted to create ships to play the game. The ships are divided into three eras (Pred-dreadnought, Dreadnought, and World War II), and include historical ships from 20 national navies. Ship types include battleships, battlecruisers, pre-dreadnought battleships, heavy cruisers, armored cruisers, light cruisers, protected cruisers, destroyers, destroyer escorts, merchants, and armed merchant cruisers, all authentically and individually rated in various offensive and defensive categories according to the Battleship Captain standard. Instructions are provided allowing you to create warship counters in any of the popular scales. Designed by Gary Graber, published by Minden Games. Note: You must own Battleship Captain game rules to use the ships and ratings included in this book.
Author : Simon Parkin
Publisher : Little, Brown
Page : 395 pages
File Size : 12,35 MB
Release : 2020-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 0316492086
As heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and "engaging history" (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive victory in the Battle of the Atlantic. By 1941, Winston Churchill had come to believe that the outcome of World War II rested on the battle for the Atlantic. A grand strategy game was devised by Captain Gilbert Roberts and a group of ten Wrens (members of the Women's Royal Naval Service) assigned to his team in an attempt to reveal the tactics behind the vicious success of the German U-boats. Played on a linoleum floor divided into painted squares, it required model ships to be moved across a make-believe ocean in a manner reminiscent of the childhood game, Battleship. Through play, the designers developed "Operation Raspberry," a counter-maneuver that helped turn the tide of World War II. Combining vibrant novelistic storytelling with extensive research, interviews, and previously unpublished accounts, Simon Parkin describes for the first time the role that women played in developing the Allied strategy that, in the words of one admiral, "contributed in no small measure to the final defeat of Germany." Rich with unforgettable cinematic detail and larger-than-life characters, A Game of Birds and Wolves is a heart-wrenching tale of ingenuity, dedication, perseverance, and love, bringing to life the imagination and sacrifice required to defeat the Nazis at sea.
Author : Stephen Peter Rosen
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 15,53 MB
Release : 2018-07-05
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1501732315
How and when do military innovations take place? Do they proceed differently during times of peace and times of war? In Winning the Next War, Stephen Peter Rosen argues that armies and navies are not forever doomed to "fight the last war." Rather, they are able to respond to shifts in the international strategic situation. He also discusses the changing relationship between the civilian innovator and the military bureaucrat. In peacetime, Rosen finds, innovation has been the product of analysis and the politics of military promotion, in a process that has slowly but successfully built military capabilities critical to American military success. In wartime, by contrast, innovation has been constrained by the fog of war and the urgency of combat needs. Rosen draws his principal evidence from U.S. military policy between 1905 and 1960, though he also discusses the British army's experience with the battle tank during World War I.
Author : Michael Epkenhans
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 46,96 MB
Release : 2015-10-23
Category : History
ISBN : 0813166063
During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning a direct fight. The Germans staged raids in the North Sea and bombarded English coasts in an attempt to lure small British squadrons into open water where they could be destroyed by submarines and surface boats. After months of skirmishes, conflict erupted on May 31, 1916, in the North Sea near Jutland, Denmark, in what would become the most formidable battle in the history of the Royal Navy. In Jutland, international scholars reassess the strategies and tactics employed by the combatants as well as the political and military consequences of their actions. Most previous English-language military analysis has focused on British admiral Sir John Jellicoe, who was widely criticized for excessive caution and for allowing German vice admiral Reinhard Scheer to escape; but the contributors to this volume engage the German perspective, evaluating Scheer's decisions and his skill in preserving his fleet and escaping Britain's superior force. Together, the contributors lucidly demonstrate how both sides suffered from leadership that failed to move beyond outdated strategies of limited war between navies and to embrace the total war approach that came to dominate the twentieth century. The contributors also examine the role of memory, comparing the way the battle has been portrayed in England and Germany. An authoritative collection of scholarship, Jutland serves as an essential reappraisal of this seminal event in twentieth-century naval history.
