Naval
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Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo
$18.95 Add to cartTed W. Lawson’s classic Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo appears in an enhanced reprint edition on the sixtieth anniversary of the Doolittle Raid on Japan. “One of the worst feelings about that time,” Ted W.
- Series: Brassey’s Aviation Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Lawson, Ted W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 01 2003
- ISBN10: 1574885545
- Language: English
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Fair Winds, Following Seas, and a Few Bolters: My Navy Years
$17.95 Add to cartFrom rural Michigan through Georgia Tech, Aviation Officer Candidate School, flight training, two Western Pacific cruises, and as an instructor pilot, Lt. McKenna met and overcame multiple obstacles i
- Author: McKenna, Stephen C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: December 30 2022
- ISBN10: 1646638506
- Language: English
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America’s First Frogman
$28.95 Add to cartAlthough bad eyesight kept him from receiving a commission in the U.S. Navy when he graduated from the Naval Academy in 1933, Draper Kauffman became a hero of underwater demolition in World War II and… [more below]
- Author: Bush, Estate Of Elizabeth Kauffman
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 09 2012
- ISBN10: 1591140692
- Language: English
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War of the Whales: A True Story
$26.99 Add to cartWinner of the 2015 PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award: “Horwitz’s dogged reporting…combined with crisp, cinematic writing, produces a powerful narrative…. He has written a book that is… [more below]
- Author: Horwitz, Joshua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 21 2015
- ISBN10: 1451645023
- 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
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A Game of Birds and Wolves: The Ingenious Young Women Whose Secret Board Game Helped Win World War II
$18.99 Add to cartAs heard on the New Yorker Radio Hour: The triumphant and “engaging history” (The New Yorker) of the young women who devised a winning strategy that defeated Nazi U-boats and delivered a decisive vict… [more below]
- Author: Parkin, Simon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: February 23 2021
- ISBN10: 031649206X
- Language: English
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USS Olympia: Herald of Empire
$26.95 Add to cartThe USS Olympia is the oldest extant steel-hulled warship in the world. Constructed as part of a congressionally mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the 19th century, she bec… [more below]
- Author: Cooling, B. Franklin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1591141265
- Language: English
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War Beneath the Sea: Submarine Conflict During World War II
$27.95 Add to cartA leading naval and military historian presents the first book to cover the major submarine campaigns in all the WWII theaters. Vividly recreates the experience of submarine and anti-submarine warfare… [more below]
- Author: Padfield, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 28 1998
- ISBN10: 0471249459
- Language: English
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Unsinkable: Five Men and the Indomitable Run of the USS Plunkett
$18.99 Add to cartIn the bestselling tradition of Indianapolis and In Harm’s Way comes a “captivating…gripping” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review) account of the USS Plunkett–a US Navy destroyer that sustained the mos… [more below]
- Author: Sullivan, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1982147849
- Language: English
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The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World
$28.00 Add to cartA monumental retelling of world history through the lens of the sea–revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean and river, lake and stream, and how go
- Author: Paine, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 800
- Publish Date: October 27 2015
- ISBN10: 1101970359
- Language: English
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What’s Your Call Sign?: The Hilarious Stories Behind a Naval Aviation Tradition
$29.99 Read moreWhat’s Your Call Sign? is filled with cleverly written and funny stories behind the seemingly mean-spirited nicknames naval aviators use to address each other as terms of endearment. As such, these st… [more below]
- Author: Taggart, Ben Lobo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0764366386
- Language: English
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Dead Wake: The Last Crossing of the Lusitania
$32.00 Add to cart#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – From the bestselling author and master of narrative nonfiction comes the enthralling story of the sinking of the Lusitania
“Both terrifying and enthralling.”–Entertainm- Author: Larson, Erik
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: March 10 2015
- ISBN10: 0307408868
- Language: English
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Battleship Commander: The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.
$39.95 Add to cartThis is the first-ever biography of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr., who served a key role during World War II in the Pacific. Recognizing the achievements and legacy of one of the war’s top combat adm… [more below]
- Author: Stillwell, Paul L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: October 15 2021
- ISBN10: 168247593X
- Language: English
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The War Below: The Story of Three Submarines That Battled Japan
$22.00 Add to cart“Beautifully researched and masterfully told” (Alex Kershaw, New York Times bestselling author of Escape from the Deep), this is the riveting story of the heroic and tragic US submarine force that hel… [more below]
- Author: Scott, James M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 20 2014
- ISBN10: 1439176841
- Language: English
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Kaigun: Strategy, Tactics, and Technology in the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1887-1941
$43.95 Read moreOne of the great spectacles of modern naval history is the Imperial Japanese Navy’s instrumental role in Japan’s rise from an isolationist feudal kingdom to a potent military empire stridently confron… [more below]
- Author: Evans, David C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: September 15 2012
- ISBN10: 159114244X
- Language: English
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Black Cat Raiders of WWII
$25.95 Add to cartThanks to the PBY’s daring pilots and their effective tactics, the slow outdated Catalina patrol bombers became the scourge of Japanese shipping in the South Pacific during World War II. Painted black… [more below]
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Knott, Richard C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 15 2012
- ISBN10: 1557504717
- Language: English
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The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
$19.99 Add to cart“A suspenseful tale of terror, courage, heroism and American military genius. I couldn’t put it down.” — Tom Brokaw
The #1 New York Times bestselling epic of nautical heroism and an immensely exciting
- Author: Maas, Peter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 06, 2001
- ISBN10: 0060932775
- Language: English
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The Fleet at Flood Tide: America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
$25.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – The extraordinary story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a… [more below]
- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2017
- ISBN10: 0345548728
- Language: English
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American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartThis fast-paced narrative charts the history of the US Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status. The story highlights iconic moments of great drama p… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Symonds, Craig L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0199394768
- Language: English
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Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story Of The USS Flier And The Only Downed World War II Submariners To Survive And Evade Capture
$19.95 Add to cartThe incredible wartime saga of the only American submariners to survive the sinking of their ship and
On the night of August 13, 1944, the U.S. submarine Flier str
evade enemy capture in World War II.- Author: Campbell, Douglas a.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: April 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032852
- Language: English
