Naval History

Naval history is the area of military history concerning war at sea and the subject is also a sub-discipline of the broad field of maritime history.

Nimitz at War: Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
Operation Pedestal: The Fleet That Battled to Malta, 1942 – A Definitive WWII History of the Royal Navy Convoy and Mediterranean Siege
Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and Its Trial by Fire in World War II
The Restless Wave: A Novel of the United States Navy
In Search of a Kingdom: Francis Drake, Elizabeth I, and the Perilous Birth of the British Empire
The Price of Victory: A Naval History of Britain: 1815-1945
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
To the Uttermost Ends of the Earth: The Epic Hunt for the South's Most Feared Ship—and the Greatest Sea Battle of the Civil War
Mastering the Art of Command: Admiral Chester W. Nimitz and Victory in the Pacific
By Water Beneath the Walls: The Rise of the Navy SEALs
Who Can Hold the Sea: The U.S. Navy in the Cold War 1945-1960
The Golden Thirteen: The Fight for the Navy's First Black Officers
The Blue Water War: The Maritime Struggle in the Mediterranean and Middle East, 1940–1945
Blazing Star, Setting Sun: The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign November 1942–March 1943
The Immortals: The World War II Story of Five Fearless Heroes, the Sinking of the Dorchester, and an Awe-inspiring Rescue
Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U. S. Navy
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder
Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Winning of the Great War at Sea
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
Master and Commander (Aubrey & Maturin, #1)
Dreadnought: Britain, Germany, and the Coming of the Great War
The Conquering Tide: War in the Pacific Islands, 1942–1944 (The Pacific War Trilogy, 2)
Twilight of the Gods: War in the Western Pacific, 1944-1945
Neptune's Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare from Trafalgar to Midway
Black Fire by William Kely McClungThe Sum of All Fears by Tom ClancyHunt Them Down by Simon GervaisBlood Debt by Ian LoomeDislocated by Franklin Horton
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