Cass Series: Naval Policy and History
About the Book Series
This series consists primarily of original manuscripts by research scholars in the general area of naval policy and history, without national or chronological limitations.
The Pacific Campaign in World War II: From Pearl Harbor to Guadalcanal
1st Edition
By William Bruce Johnson
March 18, 2010
This is a fascinating new account of how diplomacy and politics gave way to military strategy and warfare in the Pacific. Presenting previously unpublished photographs, interviews with veterans, newly commissioned maps and new translations of Japanese sources, this book freshly examines the key ...
Naval Coalition Warfare: From the Napoleonic War to Operation Iraqi Freedom
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine
January 26, 2010
This is the first scholarly book examining naval coalition warfare over the past two centuries from a multi-national perspective. Containing case studies by some of the foremost naval historians from the US, Great Britain, and Australia, it also examines the impact of international law on ...
Chinese Naval Strategy in the 21st Century: The Turn to Mahan
1st Edition
By James R. Holmes, Toshi Yoshihara
June 29, 2009
Alfred Thayer Mahan has been called America’s nineteenth-century ‘evangelist of sea power’ and the intellectual father of the modern US Navy. His theories have a timeless appeal, and Chinese analysts now routinely invoke Mahan’s writings, exhorting their nation to build a powerful navy. Economics ...
Technology and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century and Beyond
1st Edition
Edited
By Phillips Payson O'Brien
June 05, 2007
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....
Naval Blockades and Seapower: Strategies and Counter-Strategies, 1805-2005
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce A. Elleman, S.C.M. Paine
May 06, 2007
This new collection of scholarly, readable, and up-to-date essays covers the most significant naval blockades of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Here the reader can find Napoleon’s Continental Blockade of England, the Anglo-American War of 1812, the Crimean War, the ...
Dreadnought Gunnery and the Battle of Jutland: The Question of Fire Control
1st Edition
By John Brooks
August 30, 2006
This new book reviews critically recent studies of fire control, and describes the essentials of naval gunnery in the dreadnought era. With a foreword by Professor Andrew Lambert, it shows how, in 1913, the Admiralty rejected Arthur Pollen's Argo system for the Dreyer fire control tables. Many...
The Development of British Naval Thinking: Essays in Memory of Bryan Ranft
1st Edition
Edited
By Geoffrey Till
May 26, 2006
This new book brings together Britain’s leading naval historians and analysts to present a comprehensive investigation of British naval thinking and what has made it so distinctive over the last three centuries, from the sailing ship era to the current day. This new volume describes in depth the ...
The Rise and Fall of the Soviet Navy in the Baltic 1921-1941
1st Edition
By Gunnar Åselius
February 11, 2005
This book, based on extensive work in Russian archives, investigates how strategy, organisational rivalry and cultural factors came to shape naval developments in the Soviet Union, up to the invasion of 1941. Focussing on the Baltic Fleet, the author shows how the perceived balance of power in ...
The Royal Navy 1930-1990: Innovation and Defense
1st Edition
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By Richard Harding
December 20, 2004
This new book explores innovation within the Royal Navy from the financial constraints of the 1930s to World War Two, the Cold War and the refocusing of the Royal Navy after 1990. Successful adaptation to new conditions has been critical to all navies at all times. To naval historians the ...
A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader
1st Edition
By Michael Simpson
September 27, 2004
This book presents an account of the life of naval commander Andrew Cunningham, the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. It supplements Cunningham's papers by Cabinet and Admiralty records, papers of his service contemporaries and of Churchill....
A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham: A Twentieth Century Naval Leader
1st Edition
By Michael Simpson
September 27, 2004
Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First ...
The Secret War Against Sweden: US and British Submarine Deception in the 1980s
1st Edition
By Ola Tunander
September 24, 2004
Following the stranding of a Soviet Whiskey-class submarine in 1981 on the Swedish archipelago, a series of massive submarine intrusions took place within Swedish waters.However, the evidence for these appears to have been manipulated or simply invented. Classified documents and interviews point to...