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Books
Ian Allan Warships Series:
H. M. Le Fleming
Warships of World War I
Ian Allan (London) 1968
Paul H. Silverstone
U. S. Warships of World War I
Ian Allan (London) 1970
Paul H. Silverstone
U. S. Warships of World War II
Doubleday & Co. (Garden City) 1965
H. T. Lenton & J. J. Colledge
British & Dominion Warships of World War II
Doubleday & Co. (Garden City) 1968
Jean Labayle Couhat
French Warships of World War I
Ian Allan (London) 1971
Jean Labayle Couhat
French Warships of World War II
Ian Allan (London) 1971
J. C. Taylor
German Warships of World War I
Doubleday & Co. (Garden City) 1970
J. C. Taylor
German Warships of World War II
Doubleday & Co. (Garden City) 1967
Aldo Fraccaroli
Italian Warships of World War I
Ian Allan (London) 1970
Aldo Fraccaroli
Italian Warships of World War II
Ian Allan (London) 1968
Rene Greger
Austro-Hungarian Warships of World War I
Ian Allan (London) 1976
A. J. Watts
Japanese Warships of World War II
Doubleday & Co. (Garden City) 1967
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Illustrated Design History Series:
Norman Friedman
U. S. Destroyers
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1982
Norman Friedman
U. S. Aircraft Carriers
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1983
Norman Friedman
U. S. Cruisers
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1984
Norman Friedman
U. S. Battleships
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1985
Norman Friedman
U. S. Small Combatants
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1987
Norman Friedman
U. S. Submarines Through 1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1995
Norman Friedman
U. S. Submarines Since 1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1994
Norman Friedman
U. S. Amphibious Ships and Craft
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2002
Norman Friedman
British Cruisers of the Victorian Era
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2012
Norman Friedman
British Cruisers
Two World Wars and After
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2010
Norman Friedman
British Destroyers & Frigates
The Second World War and After
Chatham Publishing (London) 2006
Norman Friedman
British Destroyers
From Earliest Days to the Second World War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2009
Norman Friedman
British Battleships
1906-1946
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2015
Norman Friedman
British Battleships
of the Victorian Era
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2018
Norman Friedman
British Submarines
in Two World Wars
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2019
Norman Friedman
British Submarines
in the Cold War Era
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2022
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Samuel Eliot Morison
History of U. S. Naval Operations in World War II
Little, Brown and Company (Boston) 1947
15 volumes:
I The Battle of the Atlantic
II Operations in North African Waters
III The Rising Sun in the Pacific
IV Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions
V The Struggle for Guadalcanal
VI Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier
VII Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls
VIII New Guinea and the Marianas
IX Sicily - Salerno - Anzio
X The Atlantic Battle Won
XI The Invasion of France and Germany
XII Leyte
XIII The Liberation of the Philippines
XIV Victory in the Pacific
XV Supplement and General Index
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Captain S. W. Roskill
The War at Sea 1939-1945
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (London) 1954
3 volumes in 4 books
I The Defensive
II The Period of Balance
III The Offensive - Part I
The Offensive - Part II
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British Naval Staff
War with Japan
Her Majesty's Stationery Office (London) 1995
I Background to War
II Defensive Phase
III The Campaigns in the Solomons and New Guinea
IV The Southeast Asia Operations and Central Pacific Advance
V The Blockade of Japan
VI The Advance to Japan
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Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1860-1905
Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1906-1921
Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1922-1946
Conway's All The World's Fighting Ships 1947-1995
Conway's The War at Sea in Photographs 1939-1945
Conway's History of the Ship Series:
The Earliest Ships: The Evolution of Boats into Ships
The Age of the Galley: Mediterranean Oared Vessels since pre-classical Times
Cogs, Caravels and Galleons: The Sailing Ship 1000-1650
The Line of Battle: The Sailing Warship 1650-1840
The Heyday of Sail: The Merchant Sailing Ship 1650-1830
The Advent of Steam: The Merchant Steamship before 1900
Steam, Steel & Shellfire: The Steam Warship 1815-1905
Sails's Last Century: The Merchant Sailing Ship 1830-1930
The Eclipse of the Big Gun: the Warship 1906-45
The Golden Age of Shipping: The Classic Merchant Ship 1900-1960
Navies in the Nuclear Age: Warships since 1945
The Shipping Revolution: The Modern Merchant Ship
Anatomy of the Ship Series:
The 32-Gun Frigate Essex (Portia Takakjian)
The 44-Gun Frigate USS Constitution (Karl Heinz Marquardt)
The 74-Gun Ship Bellona (Brian Lavery)
The 100-Gun Ship Victory (John McKay)
The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid (John Roberts)
The Aircraft Carrier Victorious (Ross Watton)
The Escort Carrier Gambier Bay (Al Ross)
The Battleship Bismarck (Jack Brower)
The Battleship Dreadnought (John Roberts)
The Battleship Fuso (Janus Skulski)
The Battleship Warspite (Ross Watton)
The Battleship Yamato (Janus Skulski)
The Battlecruiser Hood (John Roberts)
The Cruiser Bartolomeo Colleoni (Franco & Valerio Gay)
The Cruiser HMS Belfast (Ross Watton)
The Heavy Cruiser Takao (Janus Skulski)
The Destroyer Campbeltown (Al Ross)
The Destroyer The Sullivans (Al Ross)
The Destroyer Escort England (Al Ross)
The Type VII U-Boat (David Westwood)
The Cunard Liner Queen Mary (Ross Watton)
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Dover Maritime Books
Dover Publications, Inc. (New York)
William H. Miller, Jr.
Pictorial Encyclopedia of Ocean Liners, 1860-1994
The First Great Ocean Liners in Photographs, 1897-1927
The Great Luxury Liners, 1927-1954
Great Cruise Ships and Ocean Liners from 1954 to 1986
Picture History of American Passenger Ships
Picture History of the Cunard Line 1840-1990 (w/ Frank O. Bayard)
Picture History of the French Line
Picture History of German and Dutch Passenger Ships
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Mark H. Goldberg
American Merchant Marine History Series
American Merchant Marine Museum (Kings Point, New York) 1991-6
I The "Hog Islanders": The Story of 122 American Ships
II "Caviar & Cargo" : The C3 Passenger Ships
III "Going Bananas" : 100 Years of American Fruit Ships in the Caribbean
IV The Shipping Board's "Agency Ships" : Part I The "Sub Boats"
V The "Stately President" Liners : American Passenger Liners of the Interwar Years Part I The "502"s
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Duncan Haws
Merchant Fleets in Profile Series
Patrick Stephens, Cambridge
1 The ships of the P&O, Orient and Blue Anchor lines
2 The ships of the Cunard, American, Red Star, Inman, Leyland, Dominion, Atlantic Transport and White Star lines
3 The ships of the Union, Castle & Union-Castle, Allan and Canadian Pacific lines
4 The ships of the Hamburg America, Adler and Carr lines
5 Royal Mail Line & Nelson Line
6 Blue Funnel Line
7 New Zealand Shipping & Federal S.N. Co.
8 Pacific Steam Navigation Company (P.S.N.C.)
9 Anchor Line
10 Shaw, Savill & Albion
11 British India S.N. Co.
12 Cunard Line
13 Donaldson Line
14 Blue Star Line
15 Thos. & Jas. Harrison
16 Ellerman Lines
17 Aberdeen abd Aberdeen & Commonwealth Lines
18 Union, Castle and Union-Castle Lines
19 White Star Line (Oceanic Steam Navigation Company)
20 Elder Dempster Lines
21 Port Line with Corry, Royden, Tyser and Milburn
22 Glen and Shire Lines
23 Canadian Pacific
24 BritainÕs Railway Steamers Western & Southern Companies + French & Stena
25 BritainÕs Railway Steamers Eastern & North Western Companies + Zeeland and Stena
26 BritainÕs Railway Steamers Scottish & Irish Companies + Stena and MacBrayne
27 Thos. & Jno. Brocklebank
28 Holland America Line
29 The Burma Boats Henderson & Libby
30 French Line Compagnie Gnrale Transatlantique
31 Elders & Fyffes and Geest
32 Union Steamship Company of New Zealand
33 Clan, Houston, Turnbull, Martin & Scottish Tankers
34 Lamport & Holt and Booth
35 Rotterdam Lloyd
36 Messageries Maritimes
37 Furness, Withy
38 Furness, WithyÕs Manchester Liners, Houlders, Alexander, Prince & Rio Cape Lines
39 China Navigation Company
40 Italia 1881-2001
41 Andrew Weir Shipping (AWS)
42 Blue funnel Line
43 The Thai Boats Danish East Asiatic (EAC) & Ben Line
44 P. & O. Lines
45 Maersk Line
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Michael Ainsworth
Warships in Miniature
Conway Maritime Press (London) 2001
John D. Alden
The American Steel Navy
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1974
John D. Alden
The Fleet Submarine in the U.S. Navy
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1979
Peter Allington and Basil Greenhill
The First Atlantic Liners
Conway Maritime Press (London) 1992
William E. Althoff
Forgotten Weapon
U. S. Navy Airships and the U-Boat War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2009
Daniel Ammen
The Atlantic Coast
The Navy in the Civil War II
The Archive Society (Harrisburg) 1992
Lewis M. Andrews, Jr.
Tempest, Fire & Foe
Destroyer Escorts in World War II and The Men Who Manned Them
Trafford Publishing (Victoria BC) 2004
Rick Archbold & Ken Marschall
Hindenburg - An Illustrate History
Madison Press Books (Toronto) 1994
John Asmussen and Eric Leon
German Naval Camouflage : Volume One 1939-1941
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2012
R.Adm. Paul Auphan & Jacques Mordal
The French Navy in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1959
Ermino Bagnasco
Submarines of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1977
Daniel E. Barbey
MacArthur's Amphibious Navy
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1969
J. C. Beaglehole
The Life of Captain James Cook
Stanford University Press (Stanford) 1983
Geoffrey Bennett
Nelson the Commander
Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) 1972
Raymond V. B. Blackman
Jane's Fighting Ships 1963-1964
McGraw Hill Book Company (New York) 1963
Clay Blair
Silent Victory
J.B.Lippincott Co. (Philadelphia) 1975
Clay Blair
Hitler's U-Boat War - The Hunters, 1939-1942
Hitler's U-Boat War - The Hunted, 1942-1945
Random House (New York) 1998
Carl Boyd & Akihiko Yoshida
The Japanese Submarine Force in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2002
Marc' Antonio Bragadin
The Italian Navy in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1957
Roger Branfill-Cook
River Gunboats
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2018
John R. Bratten
The Gondola Phliadelphia & the Battle of Lake Champlain
Texas A&M University Press (College Station) 2002
Siegfried Breyer
Schlachtschiffe und Schlactkreuzer 1905-1970
Karl Muller Verlag (Munchen) 1996
R. A. Burt
British Battleships 1889-1904
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1988
R. A. Burt
British Battleships of World War I
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1986
Ian Buxton
Big Gun Monitors
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2008
Malcolm W. Cagle & Frank A. Manson
The Sea War in Korea
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1957
Stephen J. Card M.N.I.
Cunarder : Maritime Paintings
Carmania Press (London) 2003
Stephen J. Card M.N.I.
Holland America Line "The Spotless Fleet" : Maritime Paintings
Carmania Press (London) 2005
Stephen J. Card M.N.I.
Steam & Canvas : Masterly Paintings
Colofon (Netherlands) 2017
Howard I. Chapelle
The History of American Sailing Ships
Bonanza Books (New York) 1935
Howard I. Chapelle
The History of the American Sailing Navy
Bonanza Books (New York) 1944
Howard I. Chapelle
The Search for Speed under Sail 1700-1855
Bonanza Books (New York) 1957
Roland W. Charles
Troopships of World War II
Army Transportation Association (Washington DC) 1947
Roger Chesneau
Aircraft Carriers of the World
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1995
J. J. Colledge & Ben Warlow
Ships of the Royal Navy
Chatham Publishing (London) 2006
Robert J. Cressman
The Official Chronology of the U.S.Navy in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
Andrew Browne Cunningham
A Sailor's Odyssey
E. F. Dutton & Company, Inc. (New York) 1951
Carl J. Cutler
Greyhounds of the Sea
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1984
J. A. J. Dennis
In Action with Destroyers 1939-1945
Pen & Sword Maritime (Barnsley) 2017
Capt. Peter Dickens, RN
Narvik: Battles in the Fjords
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1997
Paul S. Dull
A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy (1941-1945)
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1978
James T. Fahey
The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet
First Edition (1939)
Two-Ocean Fleet Edition (1941)
War Edition (1942)
Victory Edition (1945)
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1976
Sixth Edition (1950)
Seventh Edition (1958)
Eighth Edition (1965)
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1983
Andrew Faltum
The Supercarriers: The Forrestal and Kitty Hawk Classes
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2014
Paul Farrell
Tugboats Illustrated
W. W. Norton & Company (New York) 2016
Marcus Faulkner
The War at Sea: A Naval Atlas 1939-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2012
Eugene S. Ferguson
Truxtun of the Constellation
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1983
Holloway H. Frost
The Battle of Jutland
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1964
Mitsuo Fuchida & Nasatake Okumiya
Midway
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1955
Robert Gardiner
Warships of the Napoleonic Era
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2011
Marco Ghiglino
Italian Naval Camouflage of World War II
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2018
Peter Goodwin
The Ships of Trafalgar
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2005
Andrew Gordon
The Rules of the Game
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2012
Paul Grooss
The Naval War in the Baltic 1939-1945
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2018
Geirr H. Haarr
The German Invasion of Norway April 1940
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2009
Arnold Hague
The Allied Convoy System 1939Š1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2000
Paul G. Halpern
A Naval History of World War I
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1994
Tameichi Hara
Japanese Destroyer Captain
Ballantine Books (New York) 1972
John Harland & Mark Myers
Seamanship in the Age of Sail
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1984
Max Hastings & Simon Jenkins
The Battle for the Falklands
Norton (New York) 1983
Yhomas Heinrich
Warship Builders : U.S. Naval Shipbilding, 1922-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2020
Arthur Herman
To Rule the Waves
Harper Perennial (New York) 2005
David Hobbs
The British Pacific Fleet
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2011
David Hobbs
British Aircraft Carriers
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2013
David Hobbs
Warships of the Great War Era : A History in Ship Models
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2014
Thomas C. Hone, Norman Friedman, & Mark D. Mandeles
American & British Aircraft Carrier Development 1919-1941
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
David Howarth
Trafalgar: The Nelson Touch
Galahad Books (New York) 1968
David Howarth
Sovereign of the Seas
Atheneum (New York) 1974
Edwin P. Hoyt
The Men of the Gambier Bay
The Lyons Press (Guilford, CT) 2002
Terry Hughes & John Costello
The Battle of the Atlantic
The Dial Press (New York) 1977
Rikihei Inoguchi & Tadashi Nakajima
The Divine Wind
Bantam Books (New York) 1978
Paul Jacobs
Miniature Ship Models : A History and Collector's Guide
Naval Institue Press (Annapolis) 2008
Fred T. Jane
Jane's Fighting Ships 1914
Jane's Fighting Ships 1919
Arco Publishing Company (New York) 1969 reprints
E. H. Jenkins
A History of the French Navy
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1973
Hansgeorg Jentschura, Dieter Jung, & Peter Mickel
Warships of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1869-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
John Jordan & Robert Dumas
French Battleships 1922-1956
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2009
John Jordan & Jean Moulin
French Cruisers 1922-1956
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2013
John Jordan & Jean Moulin
French Destroyers 1922-1956
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2017
John Jordan & Philippe Caresse
French Battleships of World War One
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2009
John Jordan & Philippe Caresse
French Armoured Cruisers 1887-1932
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2019
Roger W. Jordan
The World's Merchant Fleets 1939
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
John Keegan
The Price of Admiralty
The Viking Press (New York) 1989
Ludovic Kennedy
Pursuit: The Chase and Sinking of the Bismarck
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2000
Ernest J. King & Walter Muir Whitehill
Fleet Admiral King
W. W. Norton & Company (New York) 1952
Arnold Kludas
Record Breakers of the North Atlantic
Brassey's Inc. (Washington DC) 2000
Arnold Kludas
Great Passenger Ships of the World : Volume 1 1858-1912
Great Passenger Ships of the World : Volume 2 1913-1923
Great Passenger Ships of the World : Volume 3 1924-1935
Great Passenger Ships of the World : Volume 4 1936-1950
Great Passenger Ships of the World : Volume 5 1951-1976
Patrick Stephens (Cambridge) 1984
Eric Lacroix & Linton Wells II
Japanese Cruisers of the Pacific War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1997
Frederic C. Lane
Ships for Victory
Johns Hopkins University Press (Baltimore) 2001
Edwin T. Layton
"And I Was There"
William Morrow and Company, Inc (New York) 1985
H. T. Lenton
British & Empire Warships of the Second World War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1998
Eric Leon and John Amussen
German Naval Camouflage : Volume Two 1942-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2014
Walter Lord
Incredible Victory
Harper & Row, Publishers (New York) 1967
John B. Lundstrom
The First Team
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1984
John B. Lundstrom
The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1994
David R. MacGregor
Merchant Sailing Ships 1850-1875
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1984
Donald Macintyre
U-Boat Killer
Bantam Books (New York) 1979
Donald Macintyre
The Naval War Against Hitler
Charles Scribner's Sons (New York) 1971
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Gulf and Inland Waters
The Navy in the Civil War III
The Archive Society (Harrisburg) 1992
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power upon History 1660-1783
Little, Brown and Company (Boston) 1918
Alfred Thayer Mahan
The Influence of Sea Power upon the French Revolution and Empire 1793Š1812
Volume I & Volume II
Scholarly Press (St. Clair Shores, MI) 1892
Emily Malcolm & Michael R. Harrison
Glasgow Museums The Ship Models
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2019
Edgar J. March
British Destroyers 1892-1953
Seeley Service & Co. Ltd. (London) 1966
Ian Marshall
Armored Ships
Howell Press (Charlottesville) 1990
Ian Marshall
Cruisers and La Guerre de Course
Mystic Seaport Museum (Mystic) 2007
Garrett Mattingly
The Armada
Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston) 1959
James M. McPherson
War on the Waters: The Union and Confederate Navies, 1861-1865
University of North Carolina Press (Chapel Hill) 2012
Martin Middlebrook
Convoy
Cassell & Co (London) 2003
William H. Miller
Under the Red Ensign: British Passenger Liners of the '50s & '60s
The History Press (Stroud Gloucestershire) 2008
William H. Miller
Handling Cargo: Freighters of the 1950s and 1960s
The History Press (Stroud Gloucestershire) 2018
W. H. Mitchell & L. A. Sawyer
The Empire Ships
Lloyd's of London Press (London) 1990
Stephen L. Moore
Rain of Steel : Mitscher's Task Force 58, Ugaki's Thunder Gods,
and the Kamikaze War off Okinawa
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2004
Samuel Eliot Morison
The Maritime History of Massachusetts 1783-1860
Houghton Mifflin Company (Boston) 1941
Samuel Eliot Morison
John Paul Jones
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1989
Samuel Eliot Morison
The European Discovery of America : The Northern Voyages A.D. 500Š1600
The European Discovery of America : The Southern Voyages A.D. 1492Š1616
Oxford University Press (New York) 1974
Samuel L. Morison & John S. Rowe
The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet
Tenth Edition
Raymond O'Connor, editor
The Japanese Navy in World War II
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1969
Richard O'Kane
Wahoo
Presidio Press (Novato CA) 1996
Carola Oman
Nelson
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1996
Peter Padfield
War Beneath the Sea
John Wiley & Sons (New York) 1995
Lincoln P. Paine
Ships of the World
Houghton Mifflin Co. (Boston) 1997
Oscar Parkes
British Battleships 1860-1950
Seeley Service & Co. Ltd. (London) 1956
Jonathan B. Parshall & Anthony P. Tully
Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of Midway
Potomac Books (Washington DC) 2005
Richard Perkins
British Warship Recognition : The Perkins Identification Albums
Volume I: Capital Ships 1895-1939
Volume II: Armoured Ships 1860-1895, Monitors and Aviation Ships
Volume III: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part I
Volume IV: Cruisers 1865-1939, Part II
Volume V: Destroyers, Torpedo Boats and Cpastal Forces 1876-1939
Seaforth Publishing (Barnsley) 2017
Michael Pitassi
The Navies of Rome
Boydell Press (Woodridge, Suffolk) 2009
Norman Polmar
The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis)
Twelfth Edition 1981
Fourteenth Edition 1987
Sixteenth Edition 1997
Eighteenth Edition 2005
Norman Polmar
Guide to the Soviet Navy
Fourth Edition
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1986
Norman Polmar and K. J. Moore
Cold War Submarines
Potomac Books (Washington DC) 2003
E. B. Potter & Chester W. Nimitz
Sea Power: A Naval History
Prentice-Hall, Inc. (Englewood Cliffs) 1965
E. B. Potter
Nimitz
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1976
Gordon W. Prange
At Dawn We Slept
McGraw-Hill Book Company (New York) 1981
Alan Raven & John Roberts
British Battleships of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1988
Alan Raven & John Roberts
British Cruisers of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1980
D. A. Rayner
Escort
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
Rowena Reed
Combined Operations in the Civil War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1978
Clark G. Reynolds
The Fast Carriers
Robert E. Krieger Publishing Co. (Huntington) 1978
Alistair Roach
The Life and Ship Models of Norman Ough
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2016
John Roberts
British Warships of the Second World War
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2000
John Roberts
Safeguarding the Nation : The Story of the Modern Royal Navy
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2009
Stuart Robertson & Stephen Dent
The War at Sea in Photographs 1939-1945
Conway Maritime Press (London) 2007
Terence Robertson
Escort Commander : The Story of Captain Frederic John Walker
Bantam Books (New York) 1979
N. A. M. Rodger
The Safeguard of the Sea: A Naval History of Britain 660-1649
W. W. Norton & Company (New York) 1998
N. A. M. Rodger
The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain 1649-1815
W. W. Norton & Company (New York) 2005
William Ledyard Rogers
Greek and Roman Naval Warfare
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1964
William Ledyard Rogers
Naval Warfare Under Oars
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1967
Jurgen Rohwer
War at Sea 1939-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1996
Theodore Roosevelt
The Naval War of 1812
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1987
Theodore Roscoe
United States Submarine Operations in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1949
Theodore Roscoe
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1949
Captain S. W. Roskill
White Ensign: The British Navy at War 1939-1945
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1960
Captain S. W. Roskill
HMS Warspite: The Story of a Famous Battleship
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1997
John S. Rowe & Samuel L. Morison
The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet
Ninth Edition
Friedrich Ruge
Der Seekrieg: The German Navy's Story 1939-1945
United States Naval Institute (Annapolis) 1957
Saburo Sakai
Samurai!
Bantam Books (New York) 1978
Alistair Satchell
Running the Gauntlet
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2001
Joseph Schull
The Far Distant Ships - An Official Account of
Canadian Naval Operations in World War II
Stoddart Publishing Co. (Toronto) 1987
Raphael Semmes
Memoirs of Service Afloat
The Blue & Grey Press (Secaucus) 1987
Paul H. Silverstone
Warships of the Civil War Navies
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1989
Peter C. Smith & John R. Dominy
Cruisers in Action 1939-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1981
Peter C. Smith
Pedestal : The convoy that saved Malta
Crecy Publishing Limited (Manchester) 2002
Richard K. Smith
The Airships Akron & Macon
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2012
James Russell Soley
The Blockade and the Cruisers
The Navy in the Civil War I
The Archive Society (Harrisburg) 1992
Edward P. Stafford
Little Ship, Big War : The Saga of DE343
Jove Books (New York) 1985
Edward P. Stafford
The Big E: The Story of the U.S.S. Enterprise
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1988
Craig L. Symonds
World War II at Sea : A Global History
Oxford University Press (New York) 2018
E. Mowbray Tate
Transpacific Steam
Cornwall Books (New York) 1986
James Taylor
Dazzle : Disguise and Disruption in War and Art
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2016
Lowell Thomas
Raiders of the Deep
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2004
Tommy H. Thomason
U.S. Naval Air Superiority
Specialty Press (North Branch MN) 2007
Tommy H. Thomason
Strike from the Sea
Specialty Press (North Branch MN) 2009
Barrett Tillman
Clash of the Carriers
NAL Caliber (New York) 2005
Kazushige Todaka and Robert D. Eldridge
Selected Photos from the Archives of the Kure Maritime Museum :
Aircraft Carriers and Seaplane Carriers
The Battleships Yamato and Musashi
Battleships and Battle Cruisers
Cruisers
Destroyers
Submarines and Submarine Depot Ships
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2018
Henk van Willigenburg
Dutch Warships of World War II
Lanasta (Emmen NL) 2010
Helmuth von Mcke
The Emden-Ayesha Adventure : German Raiders in the South Seas and Beyond, 1914
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2000
Oliver Warner
Great Sea Battles
Spring Books (London) 1968
Eric Wertheim
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World
15th Edition
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2007
M. J. Whitley
Battleships of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
M. J. Whitley
Cruisers of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1995
M. J. Whitley
Destroyers of World War Two
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2000
David Williams
Naval Camouflage 1914-1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2001
Ray Williams
Royal Navy Aircraft Since 1945
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1989
H. P. Willmott
Empires in the Balance
Naval Institue Press 1982
H. P. Willmott
The Barrier and the Javelin
Naval Institue Press 1983
Rif Winfield
First Rate : The Greatest Warships of the Age of Sail
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2010
Sandy Woodward and Patrick Robinson
One Hundred Days : The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Grpoup Commander
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1992
Malcolm Wright
British and Commonwealth Warship Camouflage of WWII
Volume 1 : Destroyers, Frigates, Escorts, Minesweepers Coastal Craft, Submarines & Auxiliaries
Volume 2 : Battleships and Aircraft Carriers
Volume 3 : Cruisers, Minelayers and Armed Merchant Cruisers
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2014
William T. Y'Blood
The Little Giants
U.S. Escort Carriers Against Japan
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 1999
William T. Y'Blood
Hunter-Killer
U.S. Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2004
William T. Y'Blood
Red Sun Setting
The Battle of the Philippine Sea
Naval Institute Press (Annapolis) 2004