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1. Seapower

   A Guide for the Twenty-First Century, 3rd Edition

   By Geoffrey Till

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This is the third, revised and fully updated, edition of Geoffrey Till's Seapower: A Guide for the 21st Century. The rise of the Chinese and other Asian navies, worsening quarrels over maritime jurisdiction and the United States’ maritime pivot towards the Asia-Pacific region reminds us that the...

   Published January 3rd 2013 by Routledge
2. British Naval Strategy East of Suez, 1900-2000

   Influences and Actions

   Edited by Greg Kennedy

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This new collection of essays by a panel of established international scholars sheds new light on what some of those influences were and what actions were taken as a result of Britain's Far Eastern commitments. Not only are new evidence and approaches to those issues addressed presented, but new...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
3. Britain's Economic Blockade of Germany, 1914-1919

   By Eric W. Osborne

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   Great Britain's economic blockade of Germany in World War I was one of the key elements to the victory of the Entente. Though Britain had been the leading exponent of blockades for two centuries, the World War I blockade was not effective at the outbreak of hostilities. Pre-war changes had led to...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
4. Britain, France and the Naval Arms Trade in the Baltic, 1919 -1939

   Grand Strategy and Failure

   By Donald Stoker

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   The strategy of the British and French prior to World War II was to preserve the status quo after the disaster of World War I. Donald Stoker's book examines British and French involvement from 1919 to 1939 in the creation and development of the naval forces of Poland, Finland and the three Baltic...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
5. The Road to Oran

   Anglo-French Naval Relations, September 1939-July 1940

   By David Brown

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   On 3 July 1940, soon after the collapse of the French front and France's request for an armistice, a reluctant Royal Navy commander opened fire on the French Navy squadron at Mers-el-Kebir. Some 1,300 French sailors lost their lives. The late David Brown's detailed account finally conveys an...

   Published December 14th 2012 by Routledge
6. Greek Naval Strategy and Policy 1910-1919

   By Zisis Fotakis

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   A sharp analysis of Greek naval history in the 1910s, a time when the importance of its geographic position and its navy increased greatly. It explains the causes of these developments and their consequences for Greek national aims, the Mediterranean naval situation...

   Published November 29th 2012 by Routledge
7. A Life of Admiral of the Fleet Andrew Cunningham

   A Twentieth Century Naval Leader

   By Michael Simpson

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   Cunningham was the best-known and most celebrated British admiral of the Second World War. He held one of the two major fleet commands between 1939 and 1942, and in 1942-43, he was Allied naval commander for the great amphibious operations in the Mediterranean. From 1943 to 1946, he was the First...

   Published November 14th 2012 by Routledge
8. Navies of South-East Asia

   A Comparative Study

   By James Goldrick, Jack McCaffrie

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book provides a comprehensive survey of the development and operations of the navies of South-East Asia since the end of World War II. The navies of South-East Asia have rarely been the subject of systematic attention but, as the maritime strategic balance within Asia becomes more complex...

   Published September 2nd 2012 by Routledge
9. German Naval Strategy, 1856-1888

   Forerunners to Tirpitz

   By David H. Olivier

   Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

   This book is a comparative study of the evolution of the German navy in the second half of the nineteenth century. It examines the development of strategy, especially commerce-raiding, in comparison to what other navies were doing in this era of rapid technological change. It is not an insular...

   Published July 31st 2012 by Routledge
10. Twenty-First Century Seapower

    Cooperation and Conflict at Sea

    Edited by Peter Dutton, Robert Ross, Øystein Tunsjø

    Series: Cass Series: Naval Policy and History

    This book offers an assessment of the naval policies of emerging naval powers, and the implications for maritime security relations and the global maritime order. Since the end of the Cold War, China, Japan, India and Russia have begun to challenge the status quo with the acquisition of advanced...

    Published May 16th 2012 by Routledge