Naval
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Requiem for Battleship Yamato
$22.95 Add to cartA young ensign on the bridge of the fabled battleship Yamato during her final battle, recounts his experience.
- Series: Bluejacket Books
- Author: Mitsuru, Yoshida
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: July 31 2013
- ISBN10: 1557505446
- Language: English
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The Miracle of Dunkirk: The True Story of Operation Dynamo
$16.99 Add to cartThe true story of the World War II evacuation portrayed in the Christopher Nolan film Dunkirk, by the #1 New York Times-bestselling author of Day of Infamy.
In May 1940, the remnants of the French an- Author: Lord, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 370
- Publish Date: July 18 2017
- ISBN10: 1504047540
- Language: English
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Breverton’s Nautical Curiosities: A Book of the Sea
$30.95 Read moreBreverton’s Nautical Curiosities is arranged into thematic chapters:
1) 1) The ocean environment – animals, geography, geology, weather, coasts, islands
2) 2) Ship types and parts – from the first boat
- Author: Breverton, Terry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 01 2010
- ISBN10: 1599219794
- Language: English
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Lethal Tides: Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
$28.99 Read more“Magnificently researched, brilliantly written, Lethal Tides is immensely entertaining and reads like an action novel. Catherine Musemeche has brought to life the incredible work of the scientists and
- Author: Musemeche, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 0062991698
- Language: English
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Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway – The Great Naval Battles as Seen Through Japanese Eyes
$26.95 Add to cartA highly regarded war memoir long treasured by historians for its insights into the Japanese side of the war in the Pacific.
- Author: Hara, Capt Tameichi
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: August 15 2011
- ISBN10: 1591143845
- Language: English
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The Shetland Bus: A WWII Epic Of Courage, Endurance, and Survival
$19.95 Add to cartFrom the author of We Die Alone, The Shetland Bus recounts the hundreds of crossings of small boats from the Shetland Islands to German-occupied Norway to supply arms to the Resistors and to rescue re… [more below]
- Author: Howarth, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 260
- Publish Date: February 01 2018
- ISBN10: 1493032941
- Language: English
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In Harm’s Way: The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors (Revised and Updated)
$19.99 Add to cart“Always a classic and now even better–a masterful account of one of history’s most poignant and tragic secrets.”–Lee Child
Now available in an updated trade paperback edition, In Harm’s Way is the b- Author: Stanton, Doug
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 17 2022
- ISBN10: 1250853494
- Language: English
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Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines
$34.95 Add to cartAlmost from the first days of seafaring, men have used ships for “spying” and intelligence collection. Since early in the twentieth century, with the technological advancements of radio and radar, the… [more below]
- Author: Polmar, Norman
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1640124756
- Language: English
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Rebels at Sea: Privateering in the American Revolution
$32.50 Read moreThe heroic story of the founding of the U.S. Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America’s first war is the ragtag fleet of private vess
- Author: Dolin, Eric Jay
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1631498258
- Language: English
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Thunder Below!: The USS *Barb* Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
$22.95 Add to cartThe thunderous roar of exploding depth charges was a familiar and comforting sound to the crew members of the USS Barb, who frequently found themselves somewhere between enemy fire and Davy Jones’s lo… [more below]
- Author: Fluckey, Eugene B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 01 1997
- ISBN10: 0252066707
- Language: English
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Neptune’s Inferno: The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
$25.00 Add to cart“A literary tour de force that is destined to become one of the . . . definitive works about the battle for Guadalcanal . . . James D.] Hornfischer deftly captures the essence of the most pivotal nav
- Author: Hornfischer, James D.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: March 06 2012
- ISBN10: 0553385127
- Language: English
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To Risk It All: Nine Conflicts and the Crucible of Decision
$28.00 Read moreFrom one of the great naval leaders of our time, a master class in decision-making under pressure through the stories of nine famous acts of leadership in battle, drawn from the history of the United … [more below]
- Author: Stavridis, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 0593297741
- Language: English
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Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man
$22.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * “GRIPPING…THIS YARN HAS IT ALL.” —USA TODAY * “A WONDERFUL BOOK.” —Christian Science Monitor * “ENTHRALLING.” —Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * “A MUST-READ.” —Bookl… [more below]
- Author: Vincent, Lynn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: May 21 2019
- ISBN10: 1501135953
- Language: English
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Seaforth World Naval Review 2024
$70.00 Read moreFor more than a decade this annual volume has provided an authoritative summary of all the developments in the world’s navies and their ships in the previous twelve months. It combines regional survey
- Author: Waters, Conrad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1682474844
- Language: English
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Pacific Crucible: War at Sea in the Pacific, 1941-1942
$39.99 Add to cartOn the first Sunday in December 1941, an armada of Japanese warplanes appeared suddenly over Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, and devastated the U.S. Pacific Fleet. Six months later, in a sea fight north of the … [more below]
- Series: Pacific War Trilogy #1
- Author: Toll, Ian W.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: November 14 2011
- ISBN10: 0393068137
- Language: English
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In the Hurricane’s Eye: The Genius of George Washington and the Victory at Yorktown
$19.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
“Nathaniel Philbrick is a masterly storyteller. Here he seeks to elevate the naval battles between the French and British to a central place in the history of the American Re- Series: American Revolution #3
- Author: Philbrick, Nathaniel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 04 2019
- ISBN10: 0143111450
- Language: English
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Blind Man’s Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
$21.99 Add to cartDiscover the secret history of America’s submarine warfare in this fast-paced and deeply researched chronicle of adventure and intrigue during the Cold War that reads like a spy thriller.
Blind Man’s- Author: Sontag, Sherry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 1610393589
- Language: English
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Life and Death at Cape Disappointment: Becoming a Surfman on the Columbia River Bar
$19.95 Add to cartThe first-hand account of life as a surfman by one of the most skilled boat handlers in the Coast Guard at one of the USCG’s most dangerous stations, Cape Disappointment in the state of Washington.
Au… [more below]
- Author: D’Amelio, Christopher J.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 1, 2023
- ISBN10: 1493071963
- Language: English
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Diplomats & Admirals: From Failed Negotiations and Tragic Misjudgments to Powerful Leaders and Heroic Deeds, the Untold Story of the Pacific
$32.50 Add to cartWAS THE JAPANESE ATTACK ON PEARL HARBOR INEVITABLE?
It’s November 1941. Japan and the US are teetering on a knife-edge as leaders on both sides of the Pacific strive to prevent war between them. But
- Author: Jenkins, Dale A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 402
- Publish Date: January 01, 1970
- ISBN10: 9798986562612
- Language: English
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Strike of the Sailfish: Two Sister Submarines and the Sinking of a Japanese Aircraft Carrier
$32.00 Add to cartA gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier–and the sub’s tragic twist of fate
In 1939 off the New England coast, the submarine USS Squalus accident- Author: Moore, Stephen L.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 059347287X
- Language: English
