- Captain Kidd and the War against the Pirates
- Robert Ritchie
- It is disconcerting to think of dashing scoundrels as slaves to economic forces, but so they were--as Ritchie demonstrates in this lively history of piracy. He focuses on the shadowy figure of William Kidd, whose career in the late seventeenth century swept him from the Caribbean to New York, to London, to the Indian Ocean before he ended in Newgate prison and on the gallows.
- Hardcover 1986 / Paperback
- Command at Sea
- Michael A. Palmer
- In this grand history of naval warfare, Palmer observes five centuries of dramatic encounters under sail and steam. From reliance on signal flags in the seventeenth century to satellite communications in the twenty-first, admirals looked to the next advance in technology as the one that would allow them to control their forces. But while abilities to communicate improved, Palmer shows how other technologies simultaneously shrank admirals' windows of decision. The result was simple, if not obvious: naval commanders have never had sufficient means or time to direct subordinates in battle.
- Hardcover 2005 / Paperback 2007
- The Mediterranean Naval Situation, 1908-1914
- Paul G. Halpern
- During the early part of the twentieth century all the Mediterranean powers were transforming or at least expanding their navies from mere coastal defense forces to modern war machines. This study demonstrates that the Mediterranean situation had great influence on the plans and estimates of the British Admiralty. Halpern has uncovered new material in London, Paris, Rome, and Vienna that helps to explain the plans and dispositions of Entente and Triple Alliance forces at the outbreak of the war.
- Hardcover 1971
- Race to Pearl Harbor
- Stephen E. Pelz
- Hardcover 1974