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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

by James D. Hornfischer

“This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.” With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that represented... (more)

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy

by Ian W. Toll

How "a handful of bastards and outlaws fighting under a piece of striped bunting" humbled the omnipotent British Navy. Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military had become the most divisive issue facing the new government. Would a standing army be the thin end of dictatorship? Would a navy protect American commerce against the Mediterranean pirates, or drain the... (more)

Night Watch: Tall, Dark, and Dangerous (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No. 1243)

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Night Watch: Tall, Dark, and Dangerous (Silhouette Intimate Moments, No. 1243)

by Suzanne Brockmann

Hollywood Nights . . . Leading To Hollywood Days When U.S. Navy Seal Chief Wes Skelly was sent to L.A. on assignment, he agreed to go on a blind date with beautiful single mother Brittany Evans, sister-in-law of a fellow SEAL. After all, he had been secretly in love for years, albeit with a woman who belonged to another man. So what did he have to lose? Plenty, it turned out. Because suddenly the woman he... (more)

The Sand Pebbles (Bluejacket Books)

by Richard McKenna

This now-classic novel by Richard McKenna enjoyed great critical acclaim and commercial success when it was first published in 1962. The winner of the coveted Harper Prize, it was on the New York Times bestseller list for seven months and was made into a popular motion picture that continues to be shown on television today. Set in China on the eve of revolution, the book tells the story of an old U.S. Navy... (more)

No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

No Greater Glory: The Four Immortal Chaplains and the Sinking of the Dorchester in World War II

by Dan Kurzman

The sinking of the Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism—and faith. As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four chaplains—members of different faiths but linked by bonds of friendship and devotion—moved quietly among the men onboard.... (more)

Flight of the Intruder

by Stephen Coonts

20th Anniversary Edition With a foreword by Ward Carroll and an added preface and epilogue by the author "Flight of the Intruder will join the classics…once begun, it cannot be laid aside."--John Lehman in the Wall Street Journal "Bristles with the same authenticity that helped catapult The Hunt for Red October to the top of the best-seller list . . . Coonts’ pilots are the real McCoy and his compassion... (more)

The Hunt for Red October

by Tom Clancy

A deadly game of hide-and-seek played out in 18 days over 4000 miles of ocean. Red October is the Soviet Navy's newest ballistic missile submarine. When the whole crew decides to defect, the Soviet fleet sets out to destroy it, while the US and British fleets attempt to prevent them.

Tales of the South Pacific

by James A. Michener

"Truly one of the most remarkable books to come out of the war. Mr. Michener is a born story-teller." THE NEW YORK TIMES Winner of the 1948 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction Enter the exotic world of the South Pacific, meet the men and women caught up in the drama of a big war. The young Marine who falls madly in love with a beautiful Tonkinese girl. Nurse Nellie and her French planter, Emile De Becque. The soldiers,... (more)

Dangerous Ground

by Larry Bond

The US submarine Memphis should have been mothballed decades ago. Instead, she is charged with one last, secret mission: to locate leaking containers of Russian nuclear fuel on the floor of the Arctic Ocean. More than just an environmental nightmare, this radioactive burial ground houses enough nuclear capability to destroy most of America’s major cities. Lead by the Bligh-like commander Lowell Hardy, the... (more)

The Bedford Incident

by mark rascovich

The Carrier War (Epic of Flight)

by Clark G. Reynolds

The Caine Mutiny . Wouk, HermanHerman Wouk

The Caine Mutiny . Wouk, Herman

by Herman Wouk

Nimitz Class - Super Carrier (How They Work)

Nimitz Class - Super Carrier (How They Work)

by Hugh W. Cowin, Migh Cowin

Short informational booklet describing the Nimitz Class aircraft carrier.

Abandon Ship Death of the Uss Indianapol

Abandon Ship Death of the Uss Indianapol

by Richard F. Newcomb

Flat Tops & Fledglings a History of AmerGareth L Pawlowski

Flat Tops & Fledglings a History of Amer

by Gareth L Pawlowski

Five Years in Hawaii: A True Saga of International Adventure and the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community

Five Years in Hawaii: A True Saga of International Adventure and the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community

by Justin Kolenc

A True Saga of International Adventure and the U.S. Naval Intelligence Community. This is a true account of one young American man's 5-year career in the United States Navy. During his time in the service the author traveled to eleven different countries spread across three continents. He served aboard a famous US war ship, the USS Reuben James (FFG-57)—known for her appearance in "The Hunt for Red October." ... (more)

Modern US Navy The world's most advanced naval power An Illustrated Guide

General Patton the Last CavalierWilliam Bancroft Mellor

General Patton the Last Cavalier

by William Bancroft Mellor

Tales of the South Pacific

by James A. Michener

This collection of tales is set against the background of the South Pacific during World War II.The tales are told by a young naval officer whose duties on an Admiral's staff take him up and down the islands. He meets many people, both service men and the original inhabitants, and hears their stories--the remittance man who lived among the Japs and radioed their movements until one fatal and dramatic... (more)

Power at Sea, Volume 2: The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945

Power at Sea, Volume 2: The Breaking Storm, 1919-1945

by Lisle A. Rose

In this monumental study, Lisle A. Rose revisits the strategies, battles, ships, planes, weapons, and people of the most destructive war in history to show the decisive influence of sea power upon its outcome. During the years preceding World War II, Britain's once dominant Royal Navy, beset by national economic decline and steadily eroding morale within the fleet, pleaded for the appeasement of dictators in... (more)

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by James D. Hornfischer

by Ian W. Toll

by Suzanne Brockmann

by Richard McKenna

by Dan Kurzman

by Stephen Coonts

by Tom Clancy

by James A. Michener

by Larry Bond

by mark rascovich

by Clark G. Reynolds

by Herman Wouk

by Hugh W. Cowin, Migh Cowin

by Richard F. Newcomb

by Gareth L Pawlowski

by Justin Kolenc

by William Bancroft Mellor

by James A. Michener

by Lisle A. Rose