Norman Friedman

Background

Awards and honors

• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War won the 2001 Westminster Prize for the best military history book of the previous year, from the British Royal United Services Institute.
• Seapower As Strategy: Navies and National Interests won the 2002 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature

  Selected Books

• U.S. Aircraft Carriers: An Illustrated Design History -
• U.S. Battleships: An Illustrated Design History -
• U.S. Cruisers: an Illustrated Design History -
• U.S. Amphibious Ships and Craft: an Illustrated Design History -
• U.S. Small Combatants, Including PT Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy: an Illustrated Design History -
• U.S. Naval Weapons –
• U.S. Naval Weapons: Every Gun, Missile, Mine and Torpedo Used By the U.S. Navy From 1883 to the Present Day -
• Naval Radar -
• American and British Aircraft Carrier Development, 1919-1941 -
• Battleship Design and Development 1905-1945 -
• Modern Warship: Design and Development -
• Submarine Design and Development -
• Naval Institute Guide to World Naval Weapon Systems -
• Seapower As Strategy: Navies and National Interests -
• The US Maritime Strategy -
• Postwar Naval Revolution -
• Fifty-Year War: Conflict and Strategy in the Cold War -
• Desert Victory: The War For Kuwait -
• Terrorism, Afghanistan, and America's New Way of War -
• Naval Firepower: Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era -
• Naval Weapons of World War One: Guns, Torpedoes, Mines and ASW Weapons of All Nations –
• Network-Centric Warfare: How Navies Learned to Fight Smarter Through Three World Wars -
• British Carrier Aviation: the Evolution of the Ships and Their Aircraft -
• The British Battleship: 1906-1946 -
• British Cruisers of the Victorian Era -
• British Cruisers: Two World Wars and After -
• British Destroyers: From Earliest Days to the Second World War -
• British Destroyers and Frigates: The Second World War and After -
• Fighting the Great War at Sea: Strategy, Tactics and Technology -