Naval warfare

Naval warfare considers the miltary history of the organized navies of the world from 300 BC to the present.

See also

• Naval guns
• American Revolution, naval history
• Military history
• Land warfare
• Marine Corps
• Alfred Thayer Mahan
• Sea Power
• United States Navy
• World War II, Pacific

Battles and campaigns

• Battle of Pearl Harbor, 1941
• Battle of Jutland. 1916
• Union Blockade, U.S. Civil War 1861-65

Bibliography

Surveys

• Potter, E. B. Sea Power: A Naval History (1982), covers all major battled in world history
• Rose, Susan. Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000-1500 (2002) online edition
• Sondhaus, Lawrence. Naval Warfare, 1815-1914 (2001) online edition

Major nations

• Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea -- A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991 (1991).
• Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
• Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1775-1941 (1992) excerpt and text search

Sea Power

• Koburger Jr. Charles W. Sea Power in the Twenty-First Century: Projecting a Naval Revolution (1997) online edition
• Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, 1660-1783 (1890) 557 pages; perhaps the most influential history book ever written Google version

Technology

See also [[Naval guns > Bibliography|Naval guns]]

• Brown, David K. Eclipse of the Big Gun: The Warship 1906-45 (1992)
• Friedman, Norman. U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used by the U.S. Navy from 1883 to the Present (1983), highly detailed guide
• Greene, Jack, and Alessandro Massignani. Ironclads at War: The Origin and Development of the Armored Warship, 1854-1891 (1998) online edition
• Guilmartin, John F., Jr. Gunpowder and Galleys: Changing Technology and Mediterranean Warfare at Sea in the Sixteenth Century (2003)
• Lambert, Nicholas A. Sir John Fisher's Naval Revolution (2002) excerpt and text search
• McBride, William M. Technological Change and the United States Navy, 1865-1945 (2000) excerpt and text search
• Morison, Elting E. Men Machines and Modern Times (1968) excerpt and text search
• Sumida, Jon Tetsuro. "A Matter of Timing: The Royal Navy and the Tactics of Decisive Battle, 1912–1916," Journal of Military History 67 (January 2003): 85–136 in JSTOR

Wars

18th century

• Allen, Gardner W. A Naval History of the American Revolution (1913) online at Google
• Fowler, William M. Rebels Under Sail (1976), the standard scholarly history of the naval warfare during the American Revolution
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones (1959), Pulitzer Prize excerpt and text search
• Thomas, Evan. John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (2003) excerpt and text search

Early Modern: 1500-1790

• Corbett, Julian S. Drake and the Tudor Navy: With a History of the Rise of England as a Maritime Power (1898) online edition vol 1; also online edition vol 2

19th century

Napoleonic

• Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The influence of sea power upon the War of 1812 2 vols (1905) online edition
• Pope, Dudley. Decision at Trafalgar. (1960) online edition
• Roosevelt, Theodore. The Naval War of 1812 (1882). eText at Project Gutenberg

20th century

World War I

See also [[World War I > Bibliography]]

• Gray, Edwyn A. The U-Boat War, 1914-1918 (1994)
• Halpern, Paul G. A Naval History of World War I(1995)

World War II

See also [[World War II, Pacific > Bibliography|World War II, Pacific]]

• Blair, Clay Jr. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (1975).

Pearl Harbor, Dec. 7, 1941

• Buell, Thomas. Master of Seapower: A Biography of Admiral Ernest J. King Naval Institute Press, 1976.
• Gailey, Harry A. The War in the Pacific: From Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay (1995) online edition
• King, Ernest J. U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946) online edition
• Kirby, S. Woodburn. The War Against Japan. 4 vols. (1957-1965). Highly detailed official Royal Navy history.
• Morison, Samuel Eliot. The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War (1963), one-volume version of his massive 15 vol history (1947-62) of combat operations
• Potter, John D. Yamamoto 1967.
• Potter, E.B. Nimitz (1988)
• Prange, Gordon W. At Dawn We Slept. 1982. Pearl Harbor
• Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway (1982).
• Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: Forging of an Air Navy (1968).
• Spector, Ronald. Eagle Against the Sun: The American War with Japan Free Press, 1985.
• Turnbull, Archibald D. and Clifford Lord. History of United States Naval Aviation (1949).
• Willmott, H. P. The Barrier and the Javelin: Japanese and Allied Pacific Strategies, February to June, 1942 (1983).

Cold war and after

• Brasher, Bart. Implosion: Downsizing the U.S. Military, 1987-2015 (2000) online edition
• Duncan, Francis. Rickover and the Nuclear Navy (1990).
• Hartmann, Frederick H. Naval Renaissance -- The U.S. Navy in the 1980s (1990).
• Lehman, John F., Jr. Command of the Seas: Building the 600 Ship Navy (1989).
• Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
• Polmar, Norman. The American Submarine (1981). well-illustrated popular history
• Ryan, Paul B. First Line of Defense -- The U.S. Navy Since 1945 (1981)