1939-1945 - Naval operations
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Das Boot: The Enthralling True Story of a U-Boat Commander and Crew During the Second World War
$52.23 Add to cartFilled with almost unbearable tension and excitement, DAS BOOT is one of the best stories ever written about war, a supreme novel of the Second World War and an acclaimed film and TV drama.
It is autu- Series: Cassell Military Paperbacks
- Author: Buchheim, Lothar Gunther
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: November 27 2012
- ISBN10: 0304352314
- Language: English
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Dive! World War II Stories of Sailors & Submarines in the Pacific (Scholastic Focus): The Incredible Story of U.S. Submarines in WWII
$9.99 Read moreSibert Honor author Deborah Hopkinson paints a vivid portrait of the deadly battles that raged in the Pacific during WWII and the remarkable courage of the US submarine sailors who fought them.
Dive! W… [more below]
- Author: Hopkinson, Deborah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: February 27 2018
- ISBN10: 054542559X
- Language: English
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Akizuki-Class Destroyers: In the Imperial Japanese Navy During World War II
$24.99 Read moreThe destroyers of the Akizuki “Autumn Moon” class were very different from the standard fleet type of Imperial Japanese Navy destroyers inaugurated with the Fubuki class. They were designed for the pr… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval #23
- Author: Ahlberg, Lars
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764365096
- Language: English
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The Last Stand of Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy’s Finest Hour
$29.95 Read moreAdapted from the naval history classic and New York Times bestseller, The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors pieces together the action of the Battle off Samar, bringing to life a riveting story of her… [more below]
- Author: Sanders, Steven Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 17 2021
- ISBN10: 1682473384
- Language: English
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Pby Catalina: Consolidated’s Flying Boat in WWII
$24.99 Read moreThe PBY Catalina, designed and produced by Consolidated Aircraft, whose production was supplemented by that of Boeing Canada, Canadian Vickers, and the Naval Aircraft Factory, was the most widely used… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Aviation #58
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366459
- Language: English
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Torpedoed: The True Story of the World War II Sinking of the Children’s Ship
$19.99 Read moreFrom award-winning author Deborah Heiligman comes Torpedoed, a true account of the attack and sinking of the passenger ship SS City of Benares, which was evacuating children from England during WWII.
- Author: Heiligman, Deborah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 08 2019
- ISBN10: 1627795545
- Language: English
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Battleships of World War I & World War II: 1914-45
$27.99 Read moreA highly illustrated guide to the main battleships of the 20th century.
For centuries, battleships provided overwhelming firepower at sea. They were not only a major instrument of warfare, but also a- Series: Technical Guides
- Author: Martindale, E. V.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: July 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1838862943
- Language: English
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Delivering Destruction: American Firepower and Amphibious Assault from Tarawa to Iwo Jima
$34.95 Read moreExisting literature maintains that the U.S. Marine Corps’ operational success in the Pacific War rested upon two dominant themes: committed theoretical preparation and courageous battlefield action. P… [more below]
- Series: Studies in Marine Corps History and Amphibious Warfare
- Author: Hemler, Christopher Kyle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682471349
- Language: English
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Left for Dead: A Young Man’s Search for Justice for the USS Indianapolis
$12.99 Read moreFor fans of sea battles, adventures, and war stories like Unbroken, this is the incredible true story of a boy who helps to bring closure to the survivors of the tragic sinking of the USS Indianapolis… [more below]
- Author: Nelson, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 201
- Publish Date: November 11 2003
- ISBN10: 0385730918
- Language: English
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USS Enterprise (CV-6): The Big E from the Doolittle Raid, Midway, and Santa Cruz to Guadalcanal and Leyte
$19.99 Read moreThough it barely missed being caught and destroyed at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the US Navy’s USS Enterprise (CV-6) aircraft carrier took part in every major action of the Pacific War, from th… [more below]
- Series: Legends of Warfare: Naval #18
- Author: Doyle, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 28 2020
- ISBN10: 0764360752
- Language: English
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Duel in the Deep: The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish
$34.95 Read moreIn Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II’s longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated … [more below]
- Author: Sears, David L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: September 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1682475603
- Language: English
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Dark Nights, Deadly Waters: American PT Boats at Guadalcanal
$32.95 Add to cartEighty feet long, built of layered mahogany and powered by three monstrous 1500-horsepower V-12 engines, the US Navy’s Patrol Torpedo (PT) boats screamed across the water at over forty knots. They wer
- Author: Lloyd, Keith Warren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1493072064
- Language: English
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Battle of the Atlantic: How the Allies Won the War
$42.99 Add to cart“The only thing that ever really frightened me during the war was the U-boat peril,” wrote Winston Churchill in his monumental history of World War Two. Churchill’s fears were well-placed-the casualty
- Author: Dimbleby, Jonathan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 2016
- ISBN10: 0190495855
- Language: English
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Miracle at Midway
$20.99 Add to cartNew York Times bestseller: The true story of the WWII naval battle portrayed in the Roland Emmerich film is “something special among war histories” (Chicago Sun-Times).
Six months after Pearl Harbor,- Author: Prange, Gordon W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 581
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1504049268
- Language: English
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Danger’s Hour: The Story of the USS Bunker Hill and the Kamikaze Pilot Who Crippled Her
$30.99 Add to cartIn the closing months of World War II, Americans found themselves facing a new and terrifying weapon: kamikazes — the first men to use airplanes as suicide weapons.
By the beginning of 1945, America- Author: Kennedy, Maxwell Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 03 2009
- ISBN10: 0743260813
- Language: English
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Lake Michigan’s Aircraft Carriers
$24.99 Add to cartThis is the story of the USS Wolverine and the USS Sable, two Great Lakes excursion ships converted for aircraft carrier training during WWII.
Through the duration of the war, the United States Navy qu
- Series: Images of America (Arcadia Publishing)
- Author: Somers, Paul M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 05 2003
- ISBN10: 0738532088
- Language: English
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Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, Fdr’s Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
The navigator of the USS Houston confided these prophetic words to a young officer as he and his captain charted a course into U.S. naval legend.
“Son, we’re going to Hell.”- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: August 28 2007
- ISBN10: 0553384503
- Language: English
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U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight
$23.99 Add to cartFrom January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina’s “Graveyard of the Atlantic” off the coast of the Outer Banks. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hat
- Series: Military
- Author: Bunch, Jim
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 10 2017
- ISBN10: 1467137677
- Language: English
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World War II at Sea: A Global History
$41.99 Add to cartAuthor of Lincoln and His Admirals (winner of the Lincoln Prize), The Battle of Midway (Best Book of the Year, Military History Quarterly), and Operation Neptune, (winner of the Samuel Eliot Morison A… [more below]
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 792
- Publish Date: May 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0190243678
- Language: English
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Iron Coffins: A Personal Account of the German U-Boat Battles of World War II
$24.99 Add to cartThe Battle of the Atlantic was one of the most savage and strategically significant campaigns of World War II: 28,000 out of 39,000 men in the German U-boat force disappeared beneath the waves. Herber… [more below]
- Author: Werner, Herbert A.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 388
- Publish Date: June 06 2002
- ISBN10: 030681160X
- Language: English
