United States Navy/Bibliography

From Citizendium
Jump to navigation Jump to search
The printable version is no longer supported and may have rendering errors. Please update your browser bookmarks and please use the default browser print function instead.
This article is a stub and thus not approved.
 Main Article
 Discussion
Related Articles  [?]
Bibliography  [?]
External Links  [?]
Citable Version  [?]
Catalogs [?]
Gallery [?]
 
https://en.citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=United_States_Navy/Bibliography&printable=yes
A list of key readings about United States Navy.
Please sort and annotate in a user-friendly manner. For formatting, consider using automated reference wikification.

Surveys

  • Baer, George W. One Hundred Years of Sea Power: The U.S. Navy, 1890-1990 (1994), 553pp
  • Coletta, Paolo E., ed. American Secretaries of the Navy (2 vol 1980) 1028 pp; essays by scholars on each secretary down to 1972
  • Dorwart, Jeffery M. The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age (2000) excerpt and text search
  • Hagan, Kenneth J. People's Navy: The Making of American Sea Power (1991) , 434pp
  • Howarth, Stephen. To Shining Sea -- A History of the United States Navy, 1775-1991 (1991).
  • Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1775-1941 (1992) excerpt and text search; 'History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
  • Potter, E. B. Sea Power: A Naval History (1982), stress on battles

1775 to 1890

  • Anderson, Bern. By Sea and by River: The Naval History of the Civil War (1989) excerpt and text search
  • Coggins, Jack. Ships and Seamen of the American Revolution (1969). encyclopedic survey of the ships, cannon, gear, sailors , tactics, and actions of U.S. and British navies.
  • Fowler, William M., Jr. Rebels Under Sail: The American Navy During the Revolution (1976). a topical analysis of the operations and administration of the Continental Navy
  • Fowler, William M. Jack Tars and Commodores: The American Navy, 1783-1815 (1984), popular
  • Karsten, Peter. The Naval Aristocracy: The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism (1972)
  • Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The influence of sea power upon the War of 1812 2 vols (1905) online edition
  • McKee , Christopher. A Gentlemanly and Honorable Profession: The Creation of the U.S. Naval Officer Corps, 1794-1815 (1991).
  • Miller, Nathan. Sea of Glory: A Naval History of the American Revolution (1974); covers all aspects of the naval war
  • Morison, Samuel Eliot. John Paul Jones (1959), Pulitzer Prize excerpt and text search
  • Nash, Howard P., Jr. The Forgotten Wars: The Role of the U. S. Navy in the Quasi War with France and the Barbary Wars, 1798-1805 (1968).
  • Palmer, Michael A. Stoddert's War: Naval Operations During the Quasi-War with France, 1798-1801 (1987).
  • Roosevelt, Theodore. The Naval War of 1812 (1882). eText at Project Gutenberg
  • Skaggs, David Curtis. Thomas Mcdonough: Master of Command in the Early U.S. Navy. Naval Institute Press, 2003. 257 pp.
  • Thomas, Evan. John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy (2003) excerpt and text search
  • Toll, Ian W. Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy (2006)
  • Tucker, Spencer C. The Jeffersonian Gunboat Navy (1993).

1890 to 1939

  • Andrade, Jr., Ernest. "Submarine Policy in the United States Navy, 1919-1941," Military Affairs, Vol. 35, No. 2 (Apr., 1971), pp. 50-56 in JSTOR
  • Braisted, William Reynolds. The United States Navy in the Pacific, 1909-1922 (1972)
  • Challener, Richard. Admirals, Generals and American Foreign Policy, 1898-1914 (1973)
  • Coletta, Paolo. Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy (1979)
  • Feuer, A.B. The U.S. Navy in World War I: Combat at Sea and in the Air 1999 online edition
  • Harrod, Frederick S. The Manning of the New Navy: The Development of a Modern Naval Enlisted Force, 1899-1940 (1978). By 1930 the navy successfully recruited and trained a nearly permanent force of technically skilled career seamen
  • Puleston, W. D. The Life and Work of Captain Alfred Thayer Mahan, U.S.N 1939 online edition
  • West, Richard S. Admirals of American Empire: The Combined Story of George Dewey, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Winfield Scott Schley, and William Thomas Sampson (1948)
  • Williams, William J. "Josephus Daniels and the U.S. Navy's Shipbuilding Program During World War I," The Journal of Military History, Vol. 60, No. 1 (Jan., 1996), pp. 7-38 in JSTOR

World War II

  • Blair, Clay Jr. Silent Victory: The U.S. Submarine War Against Japan (1975).
  • Hoyt, Edwin P. Submarines at War: The History of the American Silent Service (1983), popular
  • King, Ernest J. U.S. Navy at War, 1941-1945: Official Reports to the Secretary of the Navy (1946) online edition
  • Lindley, John M. Carrier Victory: The Air War in the Pacific (1978).
  • Love, Robert W. History of the US Navy: 1942-1991 (1992) excerpt and text search
  • 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:
    • The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939 - May 1943
    • Operations in North African Waters: October 1942 - June 1943
    • The Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931 - April 1942
    • Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions: May 1942 - August 1942
    • The Struggle for Guadalcanal: August 1942 - February 1943
    • Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22 July 1942 - 1 May 1944
    • Aleutians, Gilberts, and Marshalls: June 1942 - April 1944
    • New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944 - August 1944
    • Sicily - Salerno - Anzio: January 1943 - June 1944
    • The Atlantic Battle Won: May 1943 - May 1945
    • The Invasion of France and Germany: 1944 - 1945
    • Leyte: June 1944 - January 1945
    • The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas: 1944 - 1945
    • Victory in the Pacific: 1945
    • Supplement and General Index
  • Potter, E.B. Nimitz (1988)
  • Prange, Gordon W. Miracle at Midway (1982).
  • Reynolds, Clark G. The Fast Carriers: Forging of an Air Navy (1968).
  • 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). The Japanese island-centered strategy was flawed because it spread their forces thin & allowed USN to concentrate its forces to stop the Japanese at the Coral Sea and then to win at Midway.
  • Woodward, C. Vann. The Battle of Leyte Gulf (1947)
  • Y'Blood, William T. Red Sun Setting: The Battle of the Philippine Sea (1981), popular narrative

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
  • Marolda, Edward J., and Oscar P. Fitzgerald. The United States Navy and the Vietnam Conflict: From Military Assistance to Combat 1959-1965. (1987), 591pp
  • Muir, Malcolm, Jr. Black Shoes and Blue Water: Surface Warfare in the United States Navy, 1945-1975. (1996). 348pp
  • Polmar, Norman. The American Submarine (1981). well-illustrated popular history
  • Ryan, Paul B. First Line of Defense -- The U.S. Navy Since 1945 (

Primary sources

Retrieved from "https://citizendium.org/wiki/index.php?title=United_States_Navy/Bibliography&oldid=512891"