Home Of The Fleet
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| Author | : J. Levy |
| Publisher | : Springer |
| Total Pages | : 240 |
| Release | : 2003-10-23 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0230511562 |
This book marks the first comprehensive history of Britain's naval bulwark, the Home Fleet. It illuminates the vital role that fleet played in preserving Britain as a base of operations against Hitler. We see portrayed the hard days of blockade, patrol, and battle that encompassed the Home Fleet's war. And we see how that war was made harder by weaknesses at the Admiralty and by the damaging interference of the Minister of Defence - Winston Churchill.
| Author | : Rebecca Fleet |
| Publisher | : Penguin |
| Total Pages | : 304 |
| Release | : 2018-05-22 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0525558845 |
"A fantastic thriller--dead-on domestic noir, full of tension and surprises. I loved it." -Lee Child, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Midnight Line She may not know exactly who is in her house. But she knows why they are there. Be careful who you let in… A house swap becomes the eerie backdrop to a crumbling marriage, a long-buried affair, and the fatal consequences that unfold When Caroline and Francis receive an offer to house swap--from their city apartment to a house in a leafy, upscale London suburb--they jump at the chance for a week away from home, their son, and the tensions that have pushed their marriage to the brink. As the couple settles in, the old problems that permeate their marriage--his unhealthy behaviors, her indiscretions--start bubbling to the surface. But while they attempt to mend their relationship, their neighbor, an intense young woman, is showing a little too much interest in their activities. Meanwhile, Caroline slowly begins to uncover some signs of life in the stark house--signs of her life. The flowers in the bathroom or the music might seem innocent to anyone else--but to her they are clues. It seems the person they have swapped with is someone who knows her, someone who knows the secrets she's desperate to forget. . . . Be careful who you let in. . .
| Author | : Christopher Buckey |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 380 |
| Release | : 2021-05-15 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1682475824 |
Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 tells the story of the prewar predecessor to the Royal Navy's war-winning Grand Fleet: the Home Fleet. Established in early 1907 by First Sea Lord Sir John Fisher, the Home Fleet combined an active core of powerful armored warships with a unification of the various reserve divisions of warships previously under the control of the three Royal Navy home port commands. Fisher boasted that the new Home Fleet would be able to counter the growing German Hochseeflotte. While these boasts were accurate, they were not the sole motivation behind the Home Fleet's establishment. The Liberal Party's landslide victory in the 1906 General Election made fiscal economy on the part of the Admiralty even more important than before, and this significantly influenced the Home Fleet's creation. Subsequently the Home Fleet suffered a sustained campaign of criticism by the commander-in-chief of the Channel Fleet, Lord Charles Beresford. This campaign ruined many careers including Beresford's and resulted in the assimilation of the Channel Fleet into the Home Fleet in 1909. From 1910 onward the Home Fleet steadily evolved and became the most important single command in the Royal Navy, and the Home Fleet's successive commanders-in-chief had influence on strategic policy rivaled only by the Board of Admiralty. The last prewar commander of the Home Fleet, Admiral Sir George Callaghan achieved this influence by impressing the civilian head of the Admiralty, Winston Churchill. A driven reformer, Churchill's influence was almost as important as Fisher's. Against this backdrop of political drama, Genesis of the Grand Fleet: The Admiralty, Germany, and the Home Fleet, 1896-1914 explains how Britain maintained its maritime preeminence in the early twentieth century. As Christopher Buckey describes, the fleet sustained Britain and her allies' path to victory in World War I.
| Author | : David Drake |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Interplanetary voyages |
| ISBN | : 9780441240869 |
Mankind has taken one step too far in exploring the galaxy--and run smack up against the Khalia, vicious alien carnivores who take no prisoners. It is up to the brave men and women of the Fleet to keep the home planets safe. This anthology contains stories by Anne McCaffery, Poul Anderson, David Drake, and others. (August)
| Author | : Jeffrey R Cares |
| Publisher | : Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 186 |
| Release | : 2020-12-15 |
| Genre | : Political Science |
| ISBN | : 1682477347 |
Fighting the Fleet recognizes that fleets conduct four distinct but interlocking tasks at the operational level of war--striking, screening, scouting, and basing--and that successful operational art is achieved when they are brought to bear in a cohesive, competitive scheme. In explaining these elements and how they are conjoined for advantage, a central theme emerges: despite the utility and importance of jointness among the armed forces, the effective employment of naval power requires a specialized language and understanding of naval concepts that is often diluted or completely lost when too much jointness is introduced. Woven into the fabric of the book are the fundamental principles of three of the most important naval theorists of the twentieth century: Rear Admiral Bradley Fiske, Rear Admiral J.C. Wylie, and Captain Wayne Hughes. While Cares and Cowden advocate the reinvigoration of combat theory and the appropriate use of operations research, they avoid over-theorizing and have produced a practical guide that empowers fleet planners to wield naval power appropriately and effectively in meeting today's operational and tactical challenges.
| Author | : Richard Woodman |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 195 |
| Release | : 2020-05-01 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1493056565 |
Nathaniel Drinkwater's life at sea begins with the HMS Cyclops' capture of the Santa Teresa during Admiral Rodney's dramatic Moonlight Battle of 1780. Subsequently, Drinkwater's courage and initiative are put to the test as the Cyclops pursues American privateers threatening British trade and is later dispatched to the swamps of South Carolina, where many lives are lost both at sea and ashore. Gradually, Drinkwater matures into a capable and self-assured sailor. As he contends with enemy forces, the tyranny of the Cyclops' midshipmen, and the stark contrast between the comfort of home life and the brutality of naval service, he finds strength and sustenance in the love of his beloved Elizabeth.
| Author | : University of St. Andrews. Library. Reserve Collection |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 53 |
| Release | : 1906 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : James R. Reckner |
| Publisher | : US Naval Institute Press |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2001 |
| Genre | : Japan |
| ISBN | : 9781557509727 |
Drawing on previously untapped sources, naval historian James Reckner provides a complete picture of the fleet that thrust the United States into the ranks of great world naval powers. His fresh interpretations of the fleet's historic 1907-09 world cruise, which won him the 1989 Roosevelt Naval History Prize, allow today's readers to fully appreciate the significance of the famous fleet that set sail during Teddy Roosevelt's second term as president. Reckner recreates the colorful pageantry of the event--sixteen U.S. battleships on a fourteen-month voyage around the world--that drew thousands of sightseers at every port of call, but his main emphasis is on the cruise's long-range impact on the Navy. He shows how the cruise revealed the fleet's shortcomings and forced the naval establishment to acknowledge the faults and make concessions that eventually led to permanent benefits.
| Author | : Scott Bartlett |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 376 |
| Release | : 2018-02-20 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9781988380124 |
The Galaxy's Never Had It Darker Armed with new tech that could revolutionize space combat, Captain Husher must now try to convince the Interstellar Union to implement it in time to defend against the godlike Progenitors.
| Author | : Wallace T. Martin |
| Publisher | : Government Printing Office |
| Total Pages | : 79 |
| Release | : 2013-10-01 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 0160921600 |
Arming The Fleet (ATF) Highlights includes very current and basic information on the Naval Air Warfare Center Weapons Division (NAWCWD) and is 159 pages in ePub file format (76 pages in print) versus the larger comprehensive book which contains 402 pages in ePub file format (208 pages in print) and covers historical accomplishments from 1943 to today. All data contained in the smaller Highlights is included in the larger book.
