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2008
spring
catalog
NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS
table of contents
01
New Publications
13
General Interest
21
Bluejacket Books Paperback Series
22
Biographies and Memoirs
23
Fiction
24
Age of Sail
24
Civil War
24
World War I and the New Century
25
World War II
27
Cold War
27
Vietnam
27
Current Events and War
27
Aviation
30
Modelling
28
Ships and Aircraft References
30
Navigation and Seamanship
30
Military Family and Etiquette Guides
30
Professional Reading and References
31
Blue & Gold Professional Library
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Maryland, where its offices remain
today, the Naval Institute has members worldwide.
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basic guides to naval practices,
has broadened its scope to include
books of more general interest. Now
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N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S
THE LOST BATTALION OF TET
Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue, Revised Edition
By Charles A. Krohn
Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the
Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into
print a book that became an essential source for a 2006
study of the battle by the U.S. Army’s Center of Military
History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early
1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a
U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North
Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery
support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60
percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st
Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by
the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold
decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet
to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of
darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster.
Krohn, the unit’s intelligence officer at the time, provides
a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his
account with details that have been confirmed as factual by
other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion’s involvement
in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital
systems break down—lessons, he says, that are timeless and
applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation
with the Association of the United States Army.
Charles A. Krohn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is
a combat veteran of Vietnam. As a civilian, he served as the
Pentagon’s deputy chief of public affairs from 2001 to 2004,
including three months in Iraq as an adviser to the director
of the Infrastructure Reconstruction Program. Recently, he
was a visiting professor of journalism at the University of
Michigan. A resident of Burke, VA, he now works for the
American Battle Monuments Commission.
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february
210 pp., 29 b/w photos, 9 maps, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-434-2
Paperback: $23.95
History • VIETNAM
“A young soldier’s duty is to fight, and an old soldier’s duty is to remember. This
updated edition of Charles Krohn’s first-hand account of the 2-/12 Calvalry at
Hue is the best sort of remembering: gripping, inspiring, and tragically timely. In
warfare, the names and places change, but human foibles and human heroism
stay exactly the same.”
—Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
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| N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S
TIP OF THE SPEAR
U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War
By G. J. Michaels
Selected for the Marine Commandant’s Reading List when first published
in hardcover, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of Operation
Desert Storm during the Gulf War. A U.S. Marine sergeant in Alpha
Company of the 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion (LAV), Michaels
provides a revealing look at what it was like to endure and prevail in
ground combat at the platoon and company levels. Readers are given an
opportunity to look inside the battalion as it battles a savage environment
and a host of tactical snafus while pushing forward at the tip of the spear
to help liberate Kuwait City from the Iraqis.
G. J. Michaels enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1984. After serving
in the Gulf War, he became an instructor in the LAV Leaders course
at Camp Pendleton. He is now a master sergeant with the Recruiting
Command in Indiana.
JANUARY
280 pp., 14 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-498-4
Paperback: $19.95
HISTORY • GULF WAR
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IMMORTAL IMAGES
A Personal History of Two Photographers and the
Flag Raising on Iwo Jima
By Tedd Thomey
Award-winning journalist Tedd Thomey tells the poignant stories of the
two photographers who took the pictures of the flag raising sent around the
world in 1945. Joe Rosenthal, a combat photographer for the Associated
Press, became well known for his work, but when accusations surfaced that
his famous photo was staged, he endured years of abuse and humiliation.
Thomey also highlights the tragic story of the second photographer, Sgt.
Bill Genaust, a Marine killed in battle just nine days after the flag went
up. Genaust was not acknowledged for his immortal motion picture until
a fellow cameraman mounted a decades-long campaign that resulted in a
plaque in his honor being placed atop Mount Suribachi in 1995.
Tedd Thomey served with the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division in
the Pacific throughout World War II and went on to become a journalist,
playwright, and author of twenty books. He lives in Long Beach, CA.
march
247 pp., 29 photos, 4 maps, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-854-8
Paperback: $19.95
History • military • world war ii
| V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G
SLAUGHTER AT GOLIAD
The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers
By Jay A. Stout
Texas lost many volunteers during its hard-won fight
for independence from Mexico, but one harrowing
episode stands out. Following a one-sided battle on
the prairie near Coleto Creek, 250 mostly American
prisoners were marched back to the presidio at Goliad
where they were joined by more than 200 others.
Subsequently, on orders from President Antonio
Lopez de Santa Anna, they were brutally slaughtered
on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. The loss of so
many fighting men in a single day was, at the time,
one of the largest in U.S. history. The reaction in
Texas was one of horror, fear, and, for some, a lust
for revenge. The revulsion felt throughout the United
States turned American sympathies against Mexico
and its efforts to preserve its territorial integrity. Based
on extensive research, this book offers a powerful
description of what happened and an astute analysis
of why it happened. For historical background, it also
presents an overview of Texas and Mexican history
and the factors that led to the massacre.
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APRIL
288 pp, 24 photos, 4 maps, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-843-2
Hardcover: $29.95
History • MILITARY
Also available from the Naval Institute Press
• Hornets Over Kuwait
ISBN: 978-1-55750-835-5
$34.95, Hardcover, 1997.
As a career military officer, author Jay Stout offers
insights not grasped by other writers on the subject.
He pays particular attention to the leadership on both
sides during the revolution and discusses why the
massacre has been largely ignored in the years since.
Stout deglamorizes the fight against Santa Anna and
his army, while at the same time acknowledging the
Mexican perspective and the motivations of Mexico’s
leaders. The author’s dynamic writing style, combined
with the compelling subject matter, makes this book
attractive to everyone interested in the military, Texas,
and American history.
Jay A. Stout, now a senior analyst in the defense
industry, spent twenty years as a U.S. Marine Corps
fighter pilot flying F-4s and F/A-18s. During the Gulf
War he flew thirty-seven combat missions. An Indiana
native and 1981 graduate of Purdue University, he
now lives in San Diego, CA. Stout is also the author
of Hornets over Kuwait, The First Hellcat Ace and
Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat over Iraq,
among other books.
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NIMITZ
By E. B. Potter
Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the
commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976
and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered
the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly respected by
both the civilian and naval communities, Nimitz was sometimes overshadowed
by more colorful warriors such as MacArthur and Halsey. Potter’s lively and
authoritative style fleshes out Admiral Nimitz’s personality to help readers
appreciate the contributions he made as the principal architect of Japan’s defeat.
The book covers his full life, from a poverty-stricken childhood to postwar
appointments as Chief of Naval Operations and U.N. mediator. It candidly
reveals Nimitz’s opinions of Halsey, Kimmel, King, Spruance, MacArthur,
Forrestal, Roosevelt, and Truman.
E. B. Potter is the coauthor, with Admiral Nimitz, of Sea Power: A Naval
History, and the author of Bull Halsey and Admiral Arleigh Burke.
“An absolute must for everyone
interested in the Pacific War.”
—Herman Wouk
MARCH
ISBN: 978-1-59114-580-6
Paperback: $21.95
BIOGRAPHY • world war ii
THE FAST CARRIERS
The Forging of an Air Navy
By Clark G. Reynolds
Originally published in 1968, this now classic study is considered essential
reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development. It provides
a fascinating record not only of the U.S. Navy’s metamorphosis from a
battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet, but also of the heated debates
that took place over the changing naval strategy. With an insider’s grasp
of the personalities involved, award-winning naval historian Clark G.
Reynolds takes readers from the war rooms of Washington to the flight
decks of the Pacific. He vividly describes the battles over the concept of fast
carriers between the air admirals and battleship admirals and offers littleknown details gleaned from personal interviews and private diaries.
Clark G. Reynolds was professor emeritus of the College of Charleston
in South Carolina. He is also the author of On the Warpath in the Pacific:
Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers and Admiral John H. Towers:
The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy.
MARCH
ISBN: 978-1-55750-701-3
Cloth: $39.95
History • world war iI
CONTRAILS OVER THE MOJAVE
The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at
Edwards Air Force Base
By George J. Marrett
In Contrails over the Mojave, Marrett takes off where
author Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff ended in 1963.
Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards
AFB only two weeks after the school’s commander, Col.
Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to
set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space
cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zeroG maneuvers in a KC-135 “Vomit Comet,” and a flight
to 80,000 feet in a Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. After
graduating from Yeager’s “Charm School,” he was assigned
to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations for three
years. There he flew the Air Force’s latest fighter aircraft
and chased other test aircraft like the X-15 rocket ship and
the XB-70A Valkyrie as they set world speed and altitude
records.
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MARCH
264 pp., 37 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-511-0
Hardcover: $29.95
History • AVIATION
• Howard Hughes: Aviator
ISBN: 978-1-59114-510-3
$27.95, Hardcover, 2004
“Marrett describes life as
a space cadet and relives
stories of crashes, of setting
world speed records, and
of conducting a dangerous
tail hook barrier testing in a
fighter jet without a canopy.”
Marrett takes you into the cockpit with him “going
vertical” in a T-38 Talon, high-G maneuvering in an F-4C
Phantom, and on wet runway landing tests in the accidentprone F-111A Aardvark. Marrett relives stories of crashes
when his test pilot friends were killed. He writes about Air
Force test pilot Col. “Silver Fox” Stephens setting a world
speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Lockheed test pilot
Bob Gilliland flying a single-engine, minimum-control speed
stall in the SR-71 spy plane. He recounts dead-sticking a
T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine
failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing
in a fighter jet without a canopy. Marrett also writes about
a UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert,
a mysterious sighting now referred to as “The Edwards
Encounter.”
George J. Marrett flew 188 combat missions in the
Douglas A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam and tested more than
forty types of military aircraft in twenty-five years as a test
pilot for the Air Force and Hughes Aircraft Company. He is
a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and of
the Board of Trustees, National Test Pilot School, Mojave,
CA. He is the author of Howard Hughes: Aviator; Cheating
Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos; and
Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War
Weaponry. Now retired, he lives in Atascadero, CA.
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THE TERRORIST
PERSPECTIVES PROJECT
Strategic and Operational Views of
Al Qaida and Associated Movements
By Mark E. Stout, Jessica M. Huckabey,
and John R. Schindler with Jim Lacey
THE CANONS OF JIHAD
Terrorists’ Strategy for Defeating
America
Edited by Jim Lacey
A TERRORIST’S CALL
TO GLOBAL JIHAD
Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s
Islamic Jihad Manifesto
Edited by Jim Lacey
This timely book synthesizes the
perspectives of Osama bin Laden and
his fellow Salafi jihadists on how to
wage war on their enemies. A team of
experts from the Institute for Defense
Analyses undertook the study to help
U.S. military and civilian policymakers,
planners, and educators better understand terrorists. In assembling strategic
and operational perspectives of Al Qaida
and Associated Movements (AQAM),
the team focused on the Salafi jihadists’
intellectual leadership and a sampling of
their followers, who together comprise
the vanguard of the global jihad and
share a common enemy—the West.
Since the 9/11 attacks, scholars
have struggled to help Westerners
understand what motivates the
jihadi movement. Jim Lacey provides
a definitive collection of writings
that intellectually underpins the
movement. Rather than guessing
about terrorist motivations from
a Western perspective, readers are
offered essays—including those by the
founder of the Muslim Brotherhood,
Hasan al-Banna, and a leading early
member, Sayed Qutb—that define the
movement through the eyes of the
terrorists themselves. As jihadist cadres
begin to rebuild, Lacey notes that they
are turning once again to their original
thinkers to justify their actions.
MARCH
240 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-463-2
Paperback: $18.00
MARCH
216 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-461-8
Paperback: $18.00
The U.S. counterintelligence
community identifies Abu Musab
al-Suri as the most important theorist
of the global Islamic jihad and
considers his manifesto to be the
most important strategic document
produced by al Qaida or any jihadi
organization in more than a decade.
But to Americans his 1,600-page
manuscript largely consists of
incomprehensible, impenetrable
Islamic scholarship. With this
publication, defense analyst Jim Lacey
delivers a meaningful distillation of
al-Suri’s Call to Global Islamic Jihad,
a work that has been called the Mein
Kampf of the movement. MARCH
300 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-462-5
Paperback: $19.00
POLITICAL SCIENCe • TERRORISM
Mark E. Stout is a defense analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA, and collaborated with Jim Lacey on
The Iraqi Perspectives Report. Lacey is also the author of Takedown. John R. Schindler, a professor at the U.S. Naval War
College, is the author of Unholy Terror and Agents Provocateurs. Jessica M. Huckabey is an adjunct research staff member at the
Institute for Defense Analyses. These books are published in cooperation with the United States Joint Forces Command.
FADING VICTORY
The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–1945
Edited by Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon
Long out of print, these wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial
Japanese Navy provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view
of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki was chief of staff of the Combined
Fleet under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He later served as commander
of battleship and air fleets, finally directing the kamikaze attacks off
Okinawa. Invaluable for its details of the Japanese navy at war, the
diaries offer a running appraisal of the fighting and are augmented by
editorial commentary that proves especially useful to American readers
eager to see the war from the other side. When first published in 1991,
this dairy was hailed as a major contribution to World War II literature.
Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon co-authored, with Gordon
Prange, the best-sellers At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway.
MARCH
750 pp., 47 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-324-6
Paperback: $35.95
HISTORY • World war ii
SLAUGHTER AT SEA
War Crimes of the Imperial Japanese Navy
By Mark Felton
Even the most knowledgeable reader will be shocked by the extent
of the crimes committed against servicemen and civilians revealed in
this chilling new study. From the regular execution of POWs to the
abandonment of survivors, Mark Felton takes a detailed look at this
dark chapter in the history of the Japanese navy in World War II. Prior
to this account, Japanese war crimes at sea have received relatively
little attention compared to coverage of the Japanese army’s barbaric
conduct. Written by a longtime resident of the Far East, this new work
takes into account the culture that led to such appalling atrocities.
Upon publication in the UK, the book drew major news coverage.
Mark Felton teaches history at Shanghai University and is the
author of Yanagai: The Secret Underwater Trade between Japan and
Germany and The Fujita Plan: Japanese Submarine Attacks on the
United States and Australia.
MARCH
226 pp., 8 pp b/w photos., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-263-8
Hardcover: $39.95 (USAC)
History • world War II
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CHINA’S ENERGY STRATEGY
kson
oldstein
urray
china’s energy
strategy
the impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies
edited by
Gabriel b. Collins, andrew s. eriCkson,
lyle J. Goldstein, and william s. murray
institute
Joint publiCation of the
China maritime studies institute
and the naval institute press
The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies
Edited by Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, &
William S. Murray
A variety of viewpoints is offered in this timely analysis of China’s economy
and the future shape of Beijing’s energy consumption. The authors, all noted
authorities in the fields of economics, diplomacy, energy, and defense, consider
an unprecedented range of influences and factors to avoid the limitations of
looking at the subject myopically or with political bias. They conclude that
while energy insecurity could eventually lead to an arms race at sea or even a
naval conflict that neither side wants, there is ample room for Sino-American
energy dialogue and cooperation in the maritime domain.
Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, and Lyle J. Goldstein are professors
and specialists on China at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, and
founding members of the Navy’s China Maritime Studies Institute. William S.
Murray, a retired naval officer who qualified to command nuclear submarines
and made Cold War deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is an
associate research professor at the Naval War College.
JUNE
576 pp., 54 illus., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-330-7
Hardcover: $47.95
POLITICAL SCIENCE • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
SOLE SURVIVORS OF THE SEA
By James E. Wise Jr.
The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters
are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents. The
dramatic accounts—including those of a British sailor who survived 133
days at sea on an open raft and a German sailor who spent 28 hours in
the ocean without a life preserver—are based on a wide array of sources,
including interviews with the survivors and their families and official records to
back up their accuracy. Most took place in World War II, when the navies and
merchant fleets of many nations roamed the seas. Each story is one of boundless
courage, a tenacious will to survive, and, in many cases, good luck.
James E. Wise Jr., a retired naval aviator and intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy,
is the author and coauthor of many books, including Women at War: Iraq,
Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts, Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America’s Sea
Services, and U-505: The Final Journey. He lives in Alexandria, VA.
• The Navy Cross
ISBN: 978-1-59114-945-3
$34.95, Hardcover, 2007
MARCH
218 pp., 30 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-943-9
Paperback: $16.95 (Bluejacket Series)
HISTORY • NAVAL
BECTON
Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant
By Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.)
This autobiography, published in cooperation with the Association
of the United States Army, highlights Becton’s remarkable career
and reveals the influences that contributed to his success. Becton’s
autobiography reflects on his youth in the suburban Philadelphia
area, his parental and family influences, and his almost forty
years of service in the U.S. Army and in subsequent civilian
appointments. His devotion to leadership, education, service, race,
and his spiritual upbringing are all central themes in the book.
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FEBRUARY
420 pp., 50 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-021-4
Hardcover: $29.95
BIOGRAPHY • MILITARY
“In 2007 Becton received
the George Catlett Marshall
Medal, the highest award
presented by the Association
of the U.S. Army (AUSA)
for being a ‘soldier, combat
commander, administrator,
educator, public servant,
government leader, and
role model.’”
After finishing high school, Becton entered a segregated Army
at age eighteen and over nearly forty years rose to the rank of
lieutenant general. Two years after enlisting in the Army Air Corps
Enlisted Reserve, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of
infantry and subsequently fought with distinction in the Korean
War. Integrated into the Regular Army in 1951, he went on to
earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and
economics and held combat commands in the 101st Airborne
Division in Vietnam. He commanded the legendary 1st Cavalry
Division in 1975–76. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1978, he
served as commanding general of the U.S. VII Corps in Germany
and deputy commander of Training and Doctrine Command and
the Army Inspector of Training before retiring in 1983.
Following retirement he entered fields of international disaster
assistance, emergency management, and education. Becton joined
the Reagan administration in 1984 as director of the Office of
Foreign Disaster Assistance for the Agency for International
Development. From 1985 to 1989 he was director of the Federal
Emergency Management Agency. Over the next six years he
was the COO of American Coastal Industries and president of
Prairie View A&M University. His final civilian post was as CEO/
superintendent of public schools in the District of Columbia.
Becton was listed several times by Ebony magazine as “One of the
100 Most Influential Blacks in America.” In 2007 he was selected
to receive the George Catlett Marshall Medal, the highest award
presented by the Association of the U.S. Army for being a “soldier,
combat commander, administrator, educator, public servant,
government leader, and role model.”
Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), is a resident of
Springfield, VA. He wrote the forewords for 761st Black Panther
Tank Battalion in World War II and The Exclusion of Black
Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II.
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THE ARCHITECTURE OF
LEADERSHIP
By Donald T. Phillips and
Adm. James M. Loy, USCG (Ret.)
Architecture of Leadership is a
simple but effective toolkit for leaders
whose main theme is “preparation
= performance.” Using the elements
of architecture, they begin with a
foundation of character and values,
move to a floor representing a drive to
achieve combined with the capacity to
care, and continue with the framework
of innate traits and acquired skills to
the ceiling and roof of opportunity and
performance, respectively. Supporting
it all are the pillars of honesty, integrity,
courage, respect, commitment, trust,
ethics, and hard work.
Donald T. Phillips is the author of
Lincoln on Leadership and Martin
Luther King Jr. on Leadership.
Adm. James M. Loy if the former
Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard.
They coauthored Character in Action.
MAY
96 pp., 15 b/w photos, 10 graphs, 5” x 8”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-474-8
Paperback: $16.95
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS • LEADERSHIP
10 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G
THE NAVAL ARISTOCRACY
The Golden Age of Annapolis and
the Emergence of Modern American
Navalism
By Peter Karsten
When this book first appeared in
1972, Karsten, a former naval officer,
was taken to task for his portrayal of
the Naval Academy and the officer
corps. Although his conclusions riled
more than a few senior officers, no
one denied the significance of the
study, and it was named Best Book
of the Year by Phi Alpha Theta, the
national history honorary society. The
work focuses on the period after the
Civil War when the U.S. emerged as a
world power. This revelatory portrait
of the officer corps in the late 19th and
early 20th centuries has remained an
important reference work for more
than thirty-five years.
Peter Karsten is author of the threevolume Encyclopedia on War and
American Society.
THE NAVAL INSTITUTE
GUIDE TO NAVAL
WRITING, 3rd Edition
By Robert Shenk
Written by a naval officer who taught
English at two service academies,
this is the third edition of the premier
guide to professional writing for the
naval services. The book is widely
used by officers, enlisted men and
women, and civilians in both the
Navy and Marine Corps. Shenk provides sound, practical advice on all
common naval writing assignments.
This third edition adds a new chapter
on writing emails and updates the
entire book to take into account the
way naval writing is done in today’s
computer age.
Robert Shenk, a retired captain in the
U.S. Naval Reserve who taught at the
U.S. Naval and Air Force academies, is
a professor of English at the University
of New Orleans. He is the author of
The Naval Institute Guide to Naval
Writing, 2nd Edition.
APRIL
480 pp., 89 b/w photos, 11 line
drawings, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-428-1
Paperback: $28.95
JANUARY
384 pp., 35 illus., 8 ½” x 11”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-822-7
Paperback: $27.95
History • military
REFERENCE
THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE
PACIFIC, 1897–1909
By William R. Braisted
Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years
during which the U.S. Navy won an undisputed place as a major force in
the Pacific. Believing that the study of U.S. naval history has too often been
written without adequate attention to economic, military, intellectual, and
other motivating factors behind foreign policy, Braisted fully considers the
interrelationship of naval and diplomatic policies that brought about the
change. The author’s perceptive portraits of leading military and political
figures of the times add an important dimension to the study. First published
in 1977 and now available in paperback, the book continues to make an
important contribution to the history of the U.S. Navy.
APRIL
295 pp., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-087-0
Paperback: $19.95
THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE
PACIFIC, 1909–1922
By William R. Braisted
In this continuation of his study of the interrelationship of naval and
diplomatic policies, Braisted picks up the story in 1909 with the inauguration
of President Taft and ends with the Washington Arms Conference of
1921–1922. He pays close attention to the efforts of U.S. naval leaders
to secure the East Asian possessions of the United States against possible
Japanese attack by assuring the Navy’s capacity to win and retain control of
the western Pacific. For the first time, Braisted discusses the extraordinary
naval building contract between the Bethlehem Steel Company and China
in 1911 that committed the U.S. Navy to train Chinese naval personnel.
Finally, the Washington Arms Conference is shown to have been a triumph
for traditional American attitudes toward East Asia over the more ambitious
aspirations of American naval leaders. This second volume of Braisted’s
groundbreaking study is also now available in paperback for the first time.
APRIL
760 pp., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-088-7
Paperback: $29.95
William R. Braisted earned a Ph.D. from
the University of Chicago and taught
history at the University of Texas at
Austin for many years. With a special
interest in Far Eastern history, he lived
for extended periods in China, Japan,
and the Philippines and traveled widely
throughout Asia.
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THE BATTLE OF THE
RIVER PLATE
A Grand Delusion
JUNGLE WARFARE
Experience and Encounters
WARSHIP 2008
Edited by John Jordan
By J. P. Cross
This firsthand account of jungle
warfare was written by a top military
expert on the subject who draws
from his own experiences fighting in
Southeast Asia. A lifelong Gurkha of
the British army, Cross cites examples
from both the British and Japanese
sides during World War II and goes
on to demonstrate how tactics and
strategy evolved in later campaigns in
the Malay, Borneo, Vietnam, and Indochina theaters. Published in hardcover
in 1989 and out of print for years,
the book is now available for the first
time in paperback. Pen & Sword will
publish the simultaneous UK edition.
This volume features articles on
the Japanese navy carrier Hosho,
the French prewar cruisers of the
De Grasse class, small battleship
designs, and the Battle of Calabria.
It also presents features on the
armored cruisers Scharnhorst and
Gneisenau, postwar submarine
development in the Royal Navy, and
the Russian destroyers of the 7/7U
class. An assortment of rare and
unusual photographs and diagrams
accompanies the text. A warship
notes section includes information
on a mysterious U-boat sinking, lost
French naval archives, and the new
Monitor and Merrimack museum,
among other topics.
Richard Woodman, a professional
sailor best known for his popular
Nathanial Drinkwater novels, is the
author of many nonfiction studies of
World War II naval subjects.
J. P. Cross is a former commandant of
the Jungle Warfare School in Malay
and defense attaché in Laos. He now
lives in Nepal, where he is the official
historian for the Royal Nepal Army.
He is the coauthor of Gurkhas at War.
John Jordan, who specializes in French
and Russian naval history, is a frequent
editor of the Warship series and author
of many books and articles.
APRIL
160 pp., 40 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-040-5
MAY
256 pp., 16 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-422-9
APRIL
208 pp., 50 b/w photos, 50 line
drawings, 7 ¾” x 10 ½”
ISBN: 978-1-84486-062-3
HISTORY • MILITARY • GENERAL
By Richard Woodman
A distinguished British maritime writer
offers a compelling reassessment of
the British and German planning that
led to the first and one of the most
famous naval battles of World War
II. The dramatic sea fight between the
German picket battleship Admiral
Graf Spee and the British cruisers
Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast
of South America in December 1939
is seen as one of the classics of naval
warfare. Using eyewitness accounts,
Woodman graphically reconstructs the
daylong battle and pursuit and draws
penetrating portraits of the battle’s
opposing commanders.
HISTORY • World war ii
DESTROYER CAPTAIN
Lessons of a First Command
By Adm. James Stavridis, USN
This memoir of James Stavridis’ two years in command of the
destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what
it is like to be in charge of a warship—for the first time and in
the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the
Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout
the world during the author’s 1993–95 tour. Drawing on daily
journals he kept for the entire period, Stavridis reveals the
complex nature of those deployments in a “real time” context and
describes life on board the Barry and liberty ashore for sailors and
officers alike.
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MARCH
224 pp., 10 b/w photos, 5” x 8”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-849-4
Hardcover: $22.95
history • MILITARY
• Watch Officer’s Guide, Fifteenth Edition
ISBN: 978-1-59114-936-1
$24.95, Hardcover, 2007
by Adm. James Stavridis and
Capt. Robert Girrier
With all the joy, doubt, self-examination, hope, and fear of a
first command, he offers an honest examination of his experience
from the bridge to help readers grasp the true nature of command
at sea. The window he provides into the personal lives of the
crew illuminates not only their hard work in a ship that spent
more than 70 percent of its time underway, but also the sacrifices
of their families ashore. Stavridis credits his able crew for the
many awards the Barry won while he was captain, including
the Battenberg Cup for top ship in the Atlantic Fleet. Naval
aficionados who like seagoing fiction will be attracted to the book,
as will those fascinated by life at sea. Officers from all the services,
especially surface warfare naval officers aspiring to command, will
find these lessons of a first command by one of the Navy’s most
respected admirals both entertaining and instructive.
Adm. James Stavridis, USN, is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the
U.S. Naval Academy and a native of South Florida. As commander
of U.S. Southern Command, he has responsibility for all U.S.
military forces in Central and South America and the Caribbean
Sea. His awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished
Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, and five
awards of the Legion of Merit. He holds a PhD from The
Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and
is the coauthor of Command at Sea, Watch Officer’s Guide, and
Division Officer’s Guide.
“With all the joy, doubt, self-examination, hope, and fear of a
first command, Admiral Stavridis offers an honest examination
of his experience from the bridge to help readers grasp the true
nature of command at sea.”
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SOUTH TO JAVA
A Novel
By William P.Mack and William P. Mack Jr.
The crew of an old U.S. Navy destroyer steaming toward a deadly battle in
the Java Sea is the focus of this famous novel set at the outbreak of World
War II as the Allies attempted to defend the Philippines and Dutch East
Indies against superior Japanese forces. Thrust into conflict against the
highly trained modern navy, the American sailors often had only their own
courage with which to meet the enemy, and Admiral Mack’s memorable
description of those men as they faced overwhelming odds has assured the
book’s popularity since it first appeared in hardcover in 1987.
William P. Mack, the author of numerous books, served as a gunnery
officer on board the destroyer USS John D. Ford in the Java campaign.
He was vice admiral and commander of the Seventh Fleet and later served
as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. William P. Mack Jr. has
coauthored a number of books with his father.
MARCH
464 pp., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-476-2
Paperback: $21.95
FICTION • WAR & MILITARY
SEAL TEAM ONE
A Novel
By Dick Couch
With a new introduction by the author and a foreword by
RADM Tom “Hulk” Richards, USN (Ret.), Navy SEAL
This now classic tale of SEAL combat action in Vietnam marked Dick
Couch’s debut as a novelist in 1990 and sold more than 100,000 copies.
Hailed for its authenticity, it was the first novel about Navy SEALs to be
written by one of their own. Couch, a SEAL platoon leader in the Mekong
Delta from 1970 to 1971, includes gripping descriptions of dangerous
operations that continue to attract a broad audience, with many bestselling
authors calling his book a sensational story they can’t put down. This new
paperback edition features a foreword by the former head of the Naval
Special Warfare Command.
Dick Couch was a Navy SEAL from 1968 to 1972, when he joined the CIA.
He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1997 as a captain. He is the author
of twelve books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Chosen Soldier,
Mercenary Option, and Down Range. His new book, The Sheriff of Ramadi,
is scheduled for publication by the Naval Institute Press in Fall 2008.
MAY
288 pp., 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-134-1
Paperback: $19.95
FICTION • WAR & MILITARY
THROUGH THE WHEAT
The U.S. Marines in World War I
By Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.), &
Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.)
U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a
defining moment in the Marine Corps’ great history. It is
a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational
achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The
Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing
light infantry that had rarely faced a well-armed enemy.
On a single June day, in their initial assault “through the
wheat” on Belleau Wood against German machine guns and
poison gas shells, the Marines suffered more casualties than
they had experienced in all their previous 142 years. Yet at
Belleau Wood, Soissons, Blanc Mont, St. Mihiel, and the
Meuse-Argonne the Marines proved themselves to be hardnosed diehards with an affinity for close combat. Nearly a
century later Belleau Wood still resonates as a touchstone
battle of the Corps.
Two retired Marines, well known for their achievements
both in uniform and with the pen, have recorded this rich
history in a way that only insiders can. Brig. Gen. Edwin
Howard Simmons and Col. Joseph H. Alexander recount
events and colorful personalities in telling detail, capturing
the spirit that earned the 4th Marine Brigade three awards of
the French Croix de Guerre and launched the first pioneering
detachments of “Flying Leathernecks.” Here, hand-tohand combat seen through the lenses of a gas mask is
accompanied by thought-provoking assessments of the war’s
impact on the Marine Corps.
Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.), served in
the Marine Corps for thirty-six years, from 1942 to 1978,
and is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and
Vietnam. He also served the Corps for seventeen years as a
civilian, including many years as Director of Marine Corps
History and Museums. He is the author of the Korean War
novel Dog Company Six; The United States Marines: A
History; and Frozen Choisin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin
Reservoir, among other publications. He died in May 2007.
Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.), served in the
Marine Corps for twenty-eight years and fought in Vietnam.
He is the author of the award winning Utmost Savagery:
The Three Days of Tarawa and four other books. He has
helped produce twenty-five military documentaries for cable
television and was chief historian on the exhibit design team
for the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He lives in
Asheville, NC.
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ISBN: 978-1-59114-791-6
Hardcover: $34.95
History • world war i
“U.S. Marine participation
in World War I is known as a
defining moment in the Marine
Corps’ great history. It is a
story of exceptional heroism
and significant operational
achievements, along with lessons
learned the hard way.”
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CHIEF OF STAFF
The Principal Officers Behind History’s Great Commanders
Edited by Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, AUS (Ret.)
Volume 1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I
With a foreword by Dennis Showalter
Volume 2: World War II to Korea and Vietnam
With a foreword by Richard Holmes
The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and
role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have
studied history’s great commanders and the art of command. None have
focused exclusively on the chief of staff—that key staff officer responsible
for translating the ideas of the commander into practical plans that common
soldiers can execute successfully on the battlefield. In some cases, it is almost
impossible to think of certain great commanders without also thinking of
their chief of staff. Napoleon’s chief of staff Berthier and Eisenhower’s chief
of staff Bedell Smith are two examples that are profiled in this work. Zabecki
and his collaborators examine the history, development, and role of the chief
of staff primarily through profiles of the most important practitioners of the
art. These books are published in cooperation with the Association of the
United States Army.
Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, AUS (Ret.), is editor of Vietnam magazine
and author of several military history books, served as an infantry
rifleman in Vietnam. After earning his commission, he was an operations
officer, intelligence officer, and a chief of staff. In 2003 he was the senior
security adviser on the U.S. Coordinating and Monitoring Mission in
Israel, where he was responsible for the Roadmap to Peace negotiations
between the Israeli Defense Force and the Palestinian Authority’s
multiple security organizations. He lives in Germany.
volume 1: Napoleonic wars to WWi
MAY
288 pp., 18 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-990-3
Hardcover: $ 39.95
volume 2: WWII to korea and vietnam
MAY
256 pp., 18 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-991-0
Hardcover: $37.95
LAUGHTER IN THE SHADOWS
A CIA Memoir
By Stuart Methven
This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of
the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as
its “finest hours.” Using the alias “St. Martin,” Stuart Methven
served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book
opens by describing the author’s training in the clandestine
arts and subsequent assignment to Asia in a country he calls
“Bushido.” There he is involved in numerous operations,
including one that takes him under the ocean, and earns his
case officer’s “brevet.” A nation-building program in “Cham”
follows, which begins well enough when Methven gains a tribal
leader’s confidence by parachuting badly needed supplies to his
mountain village. It ends abruptly, however, with a coup d’etat
and civil war that forces Methven’s evacuation, the first of
several during his career.
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june
208 pp., 15 b/w photos, 6” x 9”
ISBN: 978-1-59114-517-2
Cloth: $24.95
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY
His next assignment is in South Vietnam working to counter
another budding insurgency. Methven spends four years in the
mountain and delta provinces of Vietnam before being given
a sabbatical to MIT’s School of International Studies. After
completing his studies, he returns to Southeast Asia as a deputy
station chief with a focus on a large Soviet mission in Samudra
and the recruitment of Soviet military officers. Promoted to
station chief, his final assignment is in central Africa, where his
station becomes center stage for a large covert operation that
attracts Soviet and Cuban military intervention. Glimpses of the
CIA from the inside are rare, and Methven’s recollections of his
experiences during a formative period in the Agency’s history
will be of particular value to those with an interest in the CIA
and international affairs—and in spy stories.
Stuart Methven, a graduate of Amherst with a master’s
degree from MIT, was a career officer in the CIA from 1952 to
1978. Later he owned and edited a weekly newspaper in West
Virginia, consulted for the Hudson Institute, and served as
assistant to the president of the Center for Naval Analyses.
He currently lives in Brussels, Belgium.
“This memoir of a CIA operations officer
captures the spirit of the early years of the
Agency, a period sometimes described as its
‘finest hours.’”
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R E C E N T R E L E A S E S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S
BANKRUPTING THE ENEMY
THE RESCUE OF STREETCAR 304
By Edward S. Miller
By Kenny Wayne Fields
Miller contends that the United States forced Japan into
international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. His lucid
writing and thorough understanding of the complexities of
international finance enable even readers unfamiliar with
financial concepts and terminology to grasp his explanation
of the impact of U.S. economic policies on Japan. 368 pp., 26
charts, 18 photos, 1 map. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-520-2. Hardcover: $32.00
In this exhilarating narrative, Fields recounts being shot down
by AAA guns in 1968 and the 40-hour ordeal that followed,
and what turned out to be one of the largest air rescues of
the Vietnam War. He draws on Air Force radio logs, afteraction reports, and extensive interviews with all participants
to tell the story from all perspectives. 384 pp., 32 photos,
2 maps. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-272-0. Hardcover: $29.95
THE NAVY CROSS
NATO’S Gamble
The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor
A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos
Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and
Other Conflicts
Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the
Kosovo Crisis, 1998–1999
By James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron
By Dag Henriksen
This collection of profiles in courage highlights the Sailors
and Marines awarded the U.S. Navy’s highest honor for valor,
the Navy Cross. It is the first book to focus on the stories of
those recognized for their heroic actions while serving in Iraq
and Afghanistan—twenty-one in all. 256 pp., 47 photos,
2 maps. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-945-3. Hardcover : $34.95
NATO’s Gamble examines the key political, diplomatic, and
military processes that shaped NATO and U.S. management of
the Kosovo crisis and shows how air power became the main
instrument in their strategy to coerce FRY to accede to NATO’s
demands. 304 pp., 32 photos, 4 maps. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-358-1. Paperback: $24.00
stars in blue
Movie Actors in America’s Sea Services
By James E. Wise Jr. and Annie Collier Rehill
THE WAR MANAGERS
By Douglas Kinnard
Stars in Blue is filled with fascinating details about the real
lives of more than fifty movie stars who served in the U.S.
Navy and Coast Guard from World War I to Vietnam.
336 pp., 117 photos. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-944-6. Paperback: $19.95
Considered a classic for its enlightening analysis of what
went wrong in Vietnam, this frank assessment of American
involvement in the war comes straight from the U.S. Army
generals responsible for its conduct in the field. This painful
indictment of both the military and civilian policy makers
serves as a useful guide on how to avoid similar disasters in
today’s conflicts. 228 pp., 11 photos. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-437-3. Paperback: $19.95
churchill goes to war
charge!
By Brian Lavery
Edited by Congressman Steve Israel
One of Britain’s top naval historians takes on a previously
unexplored area of Churchill’s wartime efforts in this much
anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of
Churchill’s navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery
considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister
through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of
global war. 368 pp., 40 illus. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-103-7. Hardcover: $34.95
Congressman Israel demonstrates how words have been sharp
and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great
military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. This
dramatic sweep of military history in the words of history’s
military leaders serves to reinforce the concept that the pen
is mightier than the sword. 320 pp., 53 b/w photos and
illustrations. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-399-4. Hardcover: $32.95
Winston’s Wartime Journeys
History’s Greatest Military Speeches
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taiwan’s statesman
first to fight
By Richard C. Kagan
By Victor H. Krulak
This examination of the success of Lee Teng-hui, the prodemocracy statesman and former president of the Republic
of China, puts to rest the idea that Asian values support only
authoritarian regimes and reject human rights and political
democracy. Kagan calls Lee’s life a beacon for people looking
for new ways to promote democracy and sovereignty.
240 pp., 17 photos. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-427-4. Hardcover: $30.00
Legendary Marine general “Brute” Krulak submits an
unprecedented examination of U.S. Marines—their fights on the
battlefield and off and their extraordinary esprit de corps. Deftly
blending history with autobiography and separating fact from
fable, Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means
to be a Marine and the reason behind its consistently outstanding
performance and reputation. 272 pp., 41 photos. 6” x 9”.
ISBN 978-1-55750-464-7. Paperback: $18.95
military widows
naval firepower
By Joanne M. Steen and M. Regina Asaro
By Norman Friedman and line drawings by A.D. Baker III
This survival guide for widows of service personnel tackles
the unique and complex issues arising from the death of a
spouse in the military. It speaks to loss in each of the service
branches, across the span of rank and rates. Short, easyto-read chapters provide insight on how to make difficult
decisions and cope with everyday situations. 208 pp. 6” x 9”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-834-0. Paperback: $19.95
For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of
naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target
fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same.
This book outlines in layman’s terms the complex subject of
fire-control equipment and electro-mechanical computing.
256 pp., 240 photos and line drawings. 9 3/4” x 11 1/4”.
ISBN: 978-1-59114-555-4. Hardcover: $69.95
Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia
A Survival Guide
An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps
Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era

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