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"Operational Warfare at Sea" by Milan Vego

ORIGINAL: pandoraefretum

I noticed this was an ebook

"Operational Warfare at Sea" by Milan Vego

Yes both hardcopy and ebook. I bought the ebook on Kobo.

Thanks, I will look at it.

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The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Alfred Mahan.

ORIGINAL: StellarRat

The Influence of Sea Power Upon History, Alfred Mahan.

Now there is a book on operational aspects of naval warfare that will help you play CMANO effectively...

Hey, if you don't why you should have a navy in the first place this is a good way to find out. [:D] Fundmentals then the fancy stuff.

Here goes my list:

Physical Books:

Submarine, Tom Clancy
SSN, Tom Clancy
Fighter Wing, Tom Clancy
Special Forces, Tom Clancy
Airborne, Tom Clancy
Marine, Tom Clancy
Armored Cav, Tom Clancy
Carrier, Tom Clancy
Janes Warship Recognition Guide, Janes
Crusade, Rick Atkinson (1991 Persian Gulf war)
Principles of Naval Weapon Systems, Freiden (pretty outdated, but a newer version is available free on the net)
U.S. Submarines Since 1945, Freidman, Naval Institute Press
Fleet Tactics and Coastal Combat, Hughes. (My copy has "Property of U.S. Navy" stamped on the bottom of it)
The Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World 1995, Naval Institute Press
Cold War Submarines, Polmar
Naval Institute Guide To The Soviet Navy, Fifth Edition, Polmar
Aircraft Carriers, Polmar
Destroyer Captain, Stavridis
Modern Naval Combat, David Miller & Chris Miller
Command at Sea, Stavridis
The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, Seventeenth Edition, Polmar
The War That Never Was, Palmer

and of course

Red Storm Rising, Clancy (I am probably on my 5th or so copy of this)

E-Books

The Chinese Navy: Expanding Capabilities, Evolving Roles
America's First Clash with Iran The Tanker War 1987-88, Zatarain
Project Azorian, Polmar
The Falklands War, Middlebrook
The Great Wall at Sea, Cole (Simply amazing read on the Chinese navy)
21st Century Essential Guide to South and East China Sea Territorial Disputes Involving China and Japan
Shield and Sword: The U.S. Navy in the Persian Gulf War
Argentine Fight For The Falklands, Middlebrook
The Korean War: U.S. Navy Operations in Korean Waters, The Navy Files
Battle Atlas of the Falklands War, Smith
Danger Zone: The Complete Chronology of US Naval Aviation, The Navy Files

This is an intentionally incomplete list...I could have added a dozen more but the biggies are here.

All my books are ww2 [:D]

The 5 books I love most and have on my bookshelf.

1 - Modern Submarine Warfare (Salamander Books-1987)
2 - Modern Naval Combat (Salamander Books-1986)
3 - The Hunt For Red October (THE FIRST ORIGINAL EDITION!!! - HARDCOVER)(Tom Clancy-1984)
4 - Red Storm Rising (FIRST EDITION - HARDCOVER)(Tom Clancy-1986)
5 - Blind Man's Bluff (HARDCOVER) (Sherry Sontag and Christopher Drew-1998)

I love submarines. It's no surprise that my books are mostly about them.

As many of us, and for years:
1 - Modern Submarine Warfare (Salamander Books-1987)
2 - Modern Naval Combat (Salamander Books-1986)
3 - Many books of the Conway's series, basically Conway's all the World Fighting Ships 1860-1905, 1906-1921, 1922-1946, and 1947-1995. And many oddities, as "The World's Worst Warships".
4 - The Naval Institute Press series of Norman Friedman "US Battleships (or Aircraft Carriers, or Destroyers, or Submarines, or Small Combatants), an Illustrated Design History".
5 - The Jane's series of books (at the current time I own copies of the annuaries of 1919, 1933, 1937, 1938, 1940, 1942, 1953, 1981, 2002 and 2004).
Another interesting not mentioned book is "October Fury", by Peter A. Hutchtausen, Wiley & sons 2002, about the Cuban Missile Crisis.

And only in Spanish, but I know it's a surprising high number of Spanish-speaking people on these naval simulation related sites:
"Historia Naval de la Gran Guerra 1914-1918" (first edition 1935), a very comprehensive history of all the WWI in the sea. With some material errours, it's a incredible good and vivacious reading.
The author, Mateo Mille García de los Reyes, was a Spanish Armada officer (Capitán de Corbeta), nephew of the Admiral Mateo García de los Reyes (A pioneer of the Spanish Armada submarine branch), he was also Spanish correspondent of Jane's Fighting Ships (you can see his name in the photos of the Spanish Armada section of the WWI Jane's), and was murdered in the early months of the Spanish Civil War in the Paracuellos Massacre with his uncle (a action very similar to the Katyn Massacre, and also relationed with the Communist Party): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paracuellos_massacre
This book is a expanded variant of his earlier "Los Titanes de la Mar" (1932), but including the Pacific, Middle East, Africa and Mesopotamia theaters of operations.
"Los Titanes de la Mar" was one of my first and scarce early readings, many times repeted, and cause of my interest by naval matters (My old 1932 edition has the seals of the library of the destroyer Alcalá Galiano, from where was leased by my grand-father before his demise in submarine C-3).
The "Historia Naval de la Gran Guerra" re-edition is now a affordable book (28 euros), and for me of important reading for Spanish readers with interest in naval history.
http://www.amazon.it/Historia-naval-gra ... 8492400609
http://www.novilis.es/h_naval_gguerra.pdf

Here's a link to plenty of reading material, hopefully you will find something interesting. The document about the Cuba crisis should provide plenty of info to create some Scenarios for example:-

http://www.history.navy.mil/library/onl ... m.htm#cold

I got this beauty (and the 92-93 version) for 20 euro each on Dutch ebay.
Having one for each decade should suffice I think

nice Skyhigh, open it up and show us a sample page !?

Lucky bugger[:D]

I'm envious.

A few pages