BOOKS
At War at Sea, by Ronald H. Spector (New York: Viking Press, 2001), covers high points of twentieth-century naval history.
Eagle against the Sun, by Ronald H. Spector (New York: Vintage Books, 1985), focuses exclusively on the war in the Pacific against Japan.
A History of the Confederate Navy, by Raimondo Luraghi (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 1996), and By River and By Sea: The Naval History of the Civil War, by Bern Anderson (New York: Da Capo Press, 1989), are two solid histories, although Anderson’s book was originally published in 1962 and Luraghi’s is translated from the original Italian.
The Fifty Year War, by Norman Friedman (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2000), is a detailed discussion of Cold War history, concentrating on military issues and technology.
Theodore Roosevelt and the Great White Fleet: American Sea Power Comes of Age, by Kenneth Wimmel (Dulles, Virginia: Brassey’s, 2000), is a general history of the great naval race leading to the First World War, describing how the United States decided to become a naval power.
This People’s Navy: The Making of American Sea Power, by Kenneth J. Hagan (New York: Free Press, 1991), traces the history of the American navy through the end of the Cold War.
The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War, by Samuel Eliot Morrison (New York: Galahad Books, 1997), is this distinguished naval historian’s “brief” distillation of his authoritative multivolume history of the war.
ONLINE RESOURCES
Many wonderful pictures are available online at a variety of government and unofficial websites. The following are among the most interesting sources of naval images.
The Defense Visual Information Center website, www.dodmedia.osd.mil. This site contains current images of all the American military services.
An unofficial site, www.hazegray.org, includes a variety of images of American and foreign warships.
The U.S. Naval Historical Center website, www.history.navy.mil, includes a large collection of historical images and information on American naval history.
The official U.S. Navy website, www.navy.mil, offers interesting links to such modern ships as Cole and Harry S. Truman.