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Author | : Richard Hough |
Publisher | : Abrams |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2003-05-27 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1468304534 |
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The major naval powers—Britain, America, Russia, and Japan—have all played a part in the theater of war at sea over the last one hundred years. Naval fighting has always been a rapidly developing affair, and in no century have changes been so swift and fundamental. In 1905, when this book begins, the first major engagement between ironclad fleets—the Battle of Tsu-Shima—took place in the Far East and decided the outcome of the Russo-Japanese war in Japan’s favor. What follows are the mighty sea battles of our century, graphically reconstructed for the reader. Victories, defeats, and mutinies at sea, from the battle with the Bismarck to the battles of Midway and Guadalcanal.
Author | : Jean-Yves Delitte |
Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
Total Pages | : 177 |
Release | : 2020-10-21 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 1682475638 |
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In the history of civilizations, sea power has always played a preponderant role. This symbol of a nation's scientific and military genius has very often been the deciding factor during major conflicts, putting the names of several clashes down into legend. With this collection, Jean-Yves Delitte and Giuseppe Baiguera plunge into the heart of three of the twentieth century's greatest naval battles. TSUSHIMA. Newly opened to the world, Japan found itself to be weak and subject to the whims of larger nations. What followed was decades of industrialization and modernization as Japan sought to catch up to advanced nations and control its own destiny. In 1905, when Japan's expansionist policies clashed with the Russian Empire over Korea, Japan was poised to flex its muscle and stun the world using the same naval supremacy that opened its borders half a century earlier. JUTLAND. May 31, 1916: the British Royal Navy and the German Kaiserliche Marine are preparing to confront one another in the North Sea off the Danish coast of Jutland. This will be the final great confrontation of World War I by sea and one of the greatest epic battles in the history of seafaring. Despite heavy losses, which are greater than the Germans', the English reaffirm their naval supremacy over the seas of the world, and Germany, all too conscious of having escaped disaster, will opt to confine the majority of its ships to its ports. MIDWAY. December 7, 1941: the Empire of Japan strikes an early blow against the United States Navy at Pearl Harbor. In just a matter of hours, the era of the battleship would come to an end and the age of the aircraft carrier would begin. In June 1942, the Imperial Japanese Navy and its carrier fleet would try to seize the initiative again by attacking the island of Midway. What unfolds is an epic carrier duel, the likes of which the world has never seen. In the end, Japan would never recover from the losses at Midway, and the United States would carry this momentum until Japan's ultimate defeat.
Author | : Ronald H. Spector |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 497 |
Release | : 2002-04-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0140246010 |
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Beginning with a gripping account of one of the most decisive naval battles in history-the 1905 battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Russians-and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements of the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every facet of the past one hundred years of naval warfare. Drawing from more than one hundred diaries, memoirs, letters, and interviews, this is, above all, a masterful narrative of the human side of combat at sea-real stories told from the point of view of the sailors who experienced it. Exhaustively researched and fascinating in detail, At War at Sea is a monumental history of the men, the ships, and the battles fought on the high seas. "Superb . . . Spector's account provides evocative and fresh perspectives on cultures, technologies and innovations that influenced sailors' lives and shaped naval warfare." (The San Diego Union-Tribune) "Monumental . . . Many books have recorded the history of the United States Navy, but few have meshed that history with that of all other major navies-an unusual comparative technique that brings into often startling relief the virtues and flaws of our own navy." (The Washington Post)"
Author | : William H. Honan |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Military history, Modern |
ISBN | : 9780860518624 |
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Author | : Phillips Payson O'Brien |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 489 |
Release | : 2013-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1136335676 |
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This work examines how the navies of Great Britain, the USA, Germany, Japan, the Soviet Union, France and Italy confronted the various technological changes posed during different periods in the 20th century.
Author | : Noble Frankland |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1976 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Oddie |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 1995-01-01 |
Genre | : Naval art and science |
ISBN | : 9780860519638 |
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Author | : William H. Honan |
Publisher | : Robson Books Limited |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 2004-08 |
Genre | : Naval battles |
ISBN | : 9781861057785 |
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The era of modern naval warfare began with the Spanish-American War in 1898, one of the first occasions in which high-speed warships, precision artillery and high-explosive shell were tested in actual combat.
Author | : Ronald H. Spector |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Naval art and science |
ISBN | : 9780141006819 |
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Traces the story (from 1905 to 2002) of the world's great navies and the crews that manned them. In a series of set pieces, Ronald Spector brings to life the battles that have defined the modern age; from giant battles such as Jutland and Midway to the routine terrors of the U-Boat wars. Also depicted are harrowing naval encounters such as the British evacuation of Crete or the American river war in Vietnam.
Author | : Ronald Andidora |
Publisher | : Praeger |
Total Pages | : 216 |
Release | : 2000-03-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Andidora tells the story of four men who successfully commanded battlefleets in the 20th century: Japan's Heihachiro Togo, England's John Jellicoe, and America's William Halsey and Raymond Spruance. This study provides personality profiles and detailed accounts of their major battles. Analyzing their command decisions based on what each commander knew or could have reasonably inferred at the time decisions were made, Andidora compares their accomplishments to those of Horatio Nelson, who delivered stunning naval victories for England during the Napoleonic Wars. However, he concludes that the Nelsonian standard is inappropriate in the modern naval environment due to the increased size and technological complexity of modern fleets and the political imperative to preserve costly and strategically significant naval assets. Trained in England and acquiring the skill and spirit of Nelson's heirs, Togo annihilated his Russian opponents at the Battle of Tsushima in the Russo-Japanese War and, therefore, produced the 20th century's only facsimile of Nelson's Trafalgar. Despite heavy losses against a numerically inferior German Navy at Jutland, Jellicoe's single-minded adherence to an unpopular strategy would prove instrumental in achieving final victory in the First World War. Although strikingly different in personality and leadership style, Halsey and Spruance would both do their part in the naval battles of the Second World War. In the Battle of the Philippine Sea, Spruance would deal Japanese naval aviation a blow from which it would never recover; while at the Battle of Leyte Gulf, Halsey would essentially eliminate the Japanese navy as an effective fighting force.