Destroyer Battles: Epics of Naval Close Encounters by Stern, Robert C - 2008-10-01

Naval Institute Press. Used - Acceptable. No dust jacket. Very Good or better condition.

Naval Institute Press, 2008-10-20. Hardcover. Good.

Naval Institute Press, October 2008. Hardcover. Like New/Like New. CLEAN!! No marks. Might as well be new. Appears unread. Dust jacket is like new. . . . . . . . TABLE OF CONTENTS: 1.) Beginnings - Peru (1877), The Black Sea (1877), Chile (1891) and China (1904-5) -- 2.) David and Goliath - The Dardanelles (May 1915) -- 3.) The agony of the 4th flotilla (31 May-1 June 1916) -- 4.) Broke again - Dover Strait (21 April 1917) -- 5.) Stumbling to Glory - Narvik (10-13 April 1940) -- 6.) Good day turned bad - the Red Sea (23 June 1940) -- 7.) No good deed shall go unpunished - the Santa Cruz Islands (26 October 1942) -- 8.) Meatgrinder - the Solomons (August 1942-November 1943) -- 9.) Fire from the sky - East China Sea (6 April 1945) -- 10.) The Cold War gets hotter - the Gulf of Tonkin (2 and 4 August 1964) -- 11.) A war over very nearly nothing - The Falklands (May 1982) -- 12.) A look back from an asymmetrical future - Aden (12 October 2000) -- * APPENDIX - Gun Calibres *… Read More

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2008. Presumed First U.S. Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 7 inches by 9.5 inches. 272 pages. Frontis Illustration. Notes on Unites of Measurement (and a Few Other Things). Illustrations. Appendix - Gun Calibres. Sources. Index. Robert C. Stern has published more than twenty books on military and naval subjects. His previous books were Destroyer Battles published in 2008, Fire from the Sky in 2010 and The US Navy and the War in Europe (2012). Mr. Stern, a retired software engineer and longtime naval history writer, is the author of nine books copublished by the Naval Institute Press Fast, maneuverable, and heavily armed, destroyers were the most aggressive surface warships of the twentieth century and fought in many battles. This book recounts the most significant and unusual actions in their history. From torpedo boat-destroyer actions by the Japanese against the Russian fleet in 1904 through the two world… Read More