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Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2008-02-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393330328
From the decision to build six heavy frigates through the cliffhanger campaign against Tripoli to the war that shook the world in 1812, Toll tells the grand tale of the founding of the U.S. Navy.
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 584 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2008-03-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393066647
"A fluent, intelligent history...give[s] the reader a feel for the human quirks and harsh demands of life at sea."—New York Times Book Review Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government. The founders—particularly Jefferson, Madison, and Adams—debated fiercely. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect from pirates or drain the treasury and provoke hostility? Britain alone had hundreds of powerful warships. From the decision to build six heavy frigates, through the cliff-hanger campaign against Tripoli, to the war that shook the world in 1812, Ian W. Toll tells this grand tale with the political insight of Founding Brothers and the narrative flair of Patrick O'Brian.
Author : Ian W Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 614 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2006-10-17
Category : History
ISBN : 0393058476
"In 1794, President Washington signed legislation authorizing the construction of six heavy frigates. (The frigate, smaller than a battleship and larger than a sloop, represented a unique combination of power, speed, and tactical versatility. In any navy, the frigates were sent on the most daring missions, and they fought the most dramatic single-ship actions of the Napoleonic era.) The American frigates were to be built at six major seaports: Portsmouth, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Norfolk. Entirely new domestic industries would be created, relying heavily on the extraction of natural resources - hemp, jute, flax, ore, softwoods, and hardwoods - from the backwoods of Maine to the uninhabiated coastal islands of Georgia. It was the first great appropriation of federal money and the first demonstration of the power of the new central government."--BOOK JACKET.
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Frigates
ISBN : 0141014563
The Battle of Trafalgar crowned the Royal Navy as undisputed sovereign of the world's oceans. Yet just seven years after Nelson's final victory, British ships were at war with a challenger from the new world - the United States of America. This is the story of the formation of the most formidable fighting force in the world.
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-14
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393083170
Winner of the Northern California Book Award for Nonfiction "Both a serious work of history…and a marvelously readable dramatic narrative." —San Francisco Chronicle On the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the tiny atoll of Midway, four Japanese aircraft carriers were sent into the abyss, a blow that destroyed the offensive power of their fleet. Pacific Crucible—through a dramatic narrative relying predominantly on primary sources and eyewitness accounts of heroism and sacrifice from both navies—tells the epic tale of these first searing months of the Pacific war, when the U.S. Navy shook off the worst defeat in American military history to seize the strategic initiative.
Author : Ronald Utt
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2012-12-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781621570080
The War of 1812 is typically noted for a handful of events: the burning of the White House, the rise of the Star Spangled Banner, and the battle of New Orleans. But in fact the greatest consequence of that distant conflict was the birth of the U.S. Navy. During the War of 1812, America’s tiny fleet took on the mightiest naval power on earth, besting the British in a string of victories that stunned both nations. In his new book, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron: The War of 1812 and the Birth of the American Navy, author Dr. Ronald Utt not only sheds new light on the naval battles of the War of 1812 and how they gave birth to our nation’s great navy, but tells the story of the War of 1812 through the portraits of famous American war heroes. From the cunning Stephen Decatur to the fierce David Porter, Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron relates how thousands of American men and boys gave better than they got against the British Navy. The great age of fighting sail is as rich in heroic drama as any epoch. Dr. Utt’s Ships of Oak and Guns of Iron retrieves the American chapter of that epoch from unjustified obscurity, and offers readers an intriguing chronicle of the War of 1812 as well as a unique perspective on the birth of the U.S. Navy.
Author : David Fitz-Enz
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publications
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2009-01-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9781589794283
This is the story of the oldest warship afloat in the world, the venerable frigate USS Constitution, the cornerstone of the nascent American navy created by act of Congress in 1794. Colonel David Fitz-Enz re-creates the world of sail, when seven knots an hour was considered blinding speed for a warship. In Old Ironsides, Fitz-Enz tells the story of the ship, from its construction to the ongoing restoration efforts that keep it active today.
Author : John Winton
Publisher : Anova Books
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 1844860078
This text is a comprehensive, authoritative, and illustrated history of the Royal Navy from its earliest times to the present day. This edition is updated to include recent operations in the first and second Gulf wars.
Author : Roy Adkins
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2006-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781440627293
An explosive chronicle of history's greatest sea battle, from the co-author of the forthcoming Gibraltar: The Greatest Siege in British History (March 2018) In the tradition of Antony Beevor's Stalingrad, Nelson's Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the world's most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio Nelson dealt a decisive blow to the forces of Napoleon. The Battle of Trafalgar comes boldly to life in this definitive work that re-creates those five momentous, earsplitting hours with unrivaled detail and intensity.
Author : Stephen Taylor
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012-10-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780393089677
"Nobody describes a naval battle better than Taylor…a flawless demonstration of the biographer’s craft." —Jan Morris, The Guardian Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest British frigate captain in the age of sail. Left fatherless at age eight, with a penniless mother and five siblings, Pellew fought his way from the very bottom of the navy to fleet command. Victories and eye-catching feats won him a public following. Yet he had a gift for antagonizing his better-born peers, and he made powerful enemies. Redemption came with his last command, when he set off to do battle with the Barbary States and free thousands of European slaves. Opinion held this to be an impossible mission, and Pellew himself, leading from the front in the style of his contemporary Nelson, did not expect to survive. Pellew’s humanity, fondness for subordinates, and blind love for his family, and the warmth and intimacy of his letters, make him a hugely engaging figure. Stephen Taylor gives him at last the biography he deserves.
Author : Craig L. Symonds
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 149 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199394944
This brisk narrative charts the history of the United States Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through its emergence as a global power amid the world wars of the twentieth century and finally to its current role as a superpower in the twenty-first century.
Author : Robert William Love
Publisher : Stackpole Books
Page : 776 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : History
ISBN : 081171862X
"The best recent example of military history -- literate, thorough, and provocative". -- John Lehman, Former Secretary of the Navy
Author : Ian W. Toll
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Frigates
ISBN : 0718146581
Britain's naval dominance over the century that followed the Battle of Trafalgar was absolute. And yet, just seven years after Nelsonrs"s final, fatal victory, British ships were at war with a new enemy, the United States. D efeat was unthinkable. But the British were soon to discover that they had a fight on their hands. And it would be a bloody one. Admirably researched, rich in detail and inhabited by a gripping cast of real-life, three-dimensional heroes and villains, Six Frigates traces the genesis of a fleet that would, ultimately, replace Britainrs"s as the worldrs"s most powerful. And it captures the moment when the Royal Navy first caught a glimpse of the future. Creaking wood, whipping sails, the bark of orders and the bludgeon and thunder of cannon come magnificently alive in its pages.
Author : Frank Uhlig
Publisher : US Naval Institute Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015033096523
How Navies Fight is a search for and identification of those methods of sea warfare that can be counted on to show up most often. It is also a report to the owners about what they should expect their fleets to do for them when they send ships out to fight.
Author : Robert Gardiner
Publisher : Naval Institute Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2016-02-22
Category : Crafts & Hobbies
ISBN : 9781612519470
The National Maritime Museum in Greenwich houses the largest collection of scale ship models in the world, many of which are official, contemporary artefacts made by the craftsmen of the navy or the shipbuilders themselves, and ranging from the mid seventeenth century to the present day. As such they represent a three-dimensional archive of unique importance and authority. Treated as historical evidence, they offer more detail than even the best plans, and demonstrate exactly what the ships looked like in a way that even the finest marine painter could not achieve. This book is the first of a series which will take selections of the best models to tell the story of specific ship types – in this case, the evolution of the cruising ship under sail. Each volume reproduces a large number of model photos, all in full colour, and including many close-up and detail views. These are captioned in depth, but many are also annotated to focus attention on interesting or unusual features. Although pictorial in emphasis, the book weaves the pictures into an authoritative text, producing an unusual and attractive form of technical history. While the series will be of particular interest to ship modellers, all those with an interest in ship design and development will attracted to the in-depth analysis of these beautifully presented books.