Farnham Bishop, 1916, The Story of the Submarine, The Century Co., New York PREFACE This book has been written for the nontechnical reader—for the man or boy who is interested in submarines and torpedoes, and would like to know something about the men who invented these things and how they came to do it. Much […]
Charles Marvin (1886) Russia’s Power of Attacking India, W.H. Allen & Co., London A very succesfull analysis of the threat to India from Russia in the late nineteenth century. PREFACE. In the spring of this year I wrote these words in ‘The Russians at the Gates of Herat’ : “Let me make the appeal that, […]
Dienstbach, C. and MacMechen, T.R. (1909) The Aerial Battleship. McLure’s Magazine, August, 1909 An article discussing the role of airships in war. In the fall of 1908 the third airship built by Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin was bought by the German government, officially commissioned as a warship, and given a military crew. On May 29, […]
Fred T. Jane (1913) Jane’s All the World’s Aircraft 1913 Preface: As conjectured last year, considerable further changes have been produced in this edition. When, some five years ago, work on this annual was first commenced, the military aviator was an idle dream. Fighting men in dirigibles were a bare possibility but nothing more than […]
Brassey, T.A. (192) The Naval Annual 1912 Provides a good description of the state of the world’s navies a couple of years before WW1 and also a review of expenditure, capabilities and background. Preface: With the growth of naval preparations in almost, every country of the world. the work of preparing the Naval Annual for […]
C. W. Sleeman (1880) Torpedoes and Torpedo Warfare: Containing a complete and concise account of the rise and progress of submarine warfare Preface In the following pages the Author has endeavoured to supply a want, viz. a comprehensive work on Torpedo Warfare, brought down to the latest date. The information has been obtained while practically […]
Jan Bloch (1900) Modern weapons and modern war, being an abridgment of “The war of the future in its technical, economic and political relations” translated from the Russian. Jan Bloch’s Modern Weapons and Modern Warfare (1900) [is] the first systematic attempt to integrate a quantitative assessment of weapons technologies, statistical analysis, and measures of industrial […]
Colonel A Court Repington (1910) New Wars for Old – The submarine menace – Blackwood’s Magazine CLXXXVII Jan-June 1910 In a 1910 article for Blackwood’s Magazine, Colonel Repington declared that ‘It is also certain that it must be a perfectly hated Idea to senior officers of the Navy that a wretched little submarine should dominate […]
R.P. Hearne (1908) Aerial Warfare & (1910) Airships in Peace and War (2nd Edn. of Aerial Warfare) In 1908, the motoring journalist R. P. Hearne published Aerial Warfare, the first book on the subject to reach an audience beyond military strategists. Enormous advances in aviation resulted in the publication of this substantially revised edition in […]