Author: Spencer C. Tucker
While fighting on land continues to hold center stage, recently much more attention has been focused on the Civil War at sea. And for good reason. Naval operations decided the outcome of the war as the North exploited it ... |
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A Guide
Author: Paolo E. Coletta
From its hasty and urgent creation during the American Revolution through periods of relative neglect, the United States Navy has maintained an important role in the security of the United States, and has been involved i ... |
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Moslem Corsairs of the Sixteenth Century 1492-1580
Author: E. Hamilton Currey
Sword against scimitar at sea The expulsion of the Moors from Iberia following the victory of the Catholic monarchs King Ferdinand of Castile and Queen Isabella of Aragon in 1492 heralded a new age. Now there was a clear ... |
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Three Accounts of Escape and Adventure
Author: Thomas O'Neill & & Others
Three individual narratives in a single, value for money volume This book contains three remarkable and fascinating true life accounts of naval adventure from the early years of the 19th century, which though short in le ... |
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Reminiscences of a Sailor of the Royal Navy During the Victorian Era
Author: Sam Noble
A sailor of the Queen aboard HMS Swallow in the 1870s The mid-Victorian period saw the Queen-Empress' domains growing in number, stability and strength all over the globe. The days of sail were all but done and now i ... |
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the First Hand Account of a Famous Privateer Captain at War with the Spanish During the Reign of Queen Anne 1707-1711
Author: Robert C. Leslie & Woodes Rogers
Woodes Rogers-the man who rescued 'Robinson Crusoe' In the history of the British at sea, the names of many of its greatest men have long been familiar to almost everyone. For many, however, the name Woodes Rogers ma ... |
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the Personal Experiences of 45 Sailors of the Royal Navy at the Great Battle at Sea, 1916, During the First World War
Author: H. W. Fawcett & G. W. W. Hooper
Experiences of the momentous fleet battle of the Great War at sea The narratives of the fighting at Jutland which are collected in this book were all written by officers or men who were present at the battle, and they ar ... |
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the Royal Navy at War in the South Atlantic in the Early Days of the First World War
Author: H. Spencer-Cooper
The Royal Navy strikes back In the final months of the first year of the First World War a squadron of the Imperial German Navy under von Spee decisively destroyed a weaker British force under Cradock off the coast of So ... |
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Three Accounts of Escape and Adventure
Author: Thomas O'Neill & & Others
Three individual narratives in a single, value for money volume This book contains three remarkable and fascinating true life accounts of naval adventure from the early years of the 19th century, which though short in le ... |
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Reminiscences of a Sailor of the Royal Navy During the Victorian Era
Author: Sam Noble
A sailor of the Queen aboard HMS Swallow in the 1870s The mid-Victorian period saw the Queen-Empress' domains growing in number, stability and strength all over the globe. The days of sail were all but done and now i ... |
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a Classic Account of the Buccaneers & Pirates of the Great Age of Sail
Author: Walter Thornbury
High adventure on the seas for plunder and profit This well known account of the 'gentlemen of the black flag' by Thornbury was originally published in three volumes under the title Monarchs of the Main; the original edi ... |
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the Development of Warships by the Navies of the World During the Later 19th Century
Author: Edward J. Reed, Edward Simpson & J. D. Jerrold Kelley
The dawn of the modern warship This interesting, illustrated work concerns the considerable variety of ships of war that were designed and launched during the latter part of the nineteenth century. The author takes as hi ... |
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The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
Author: Sherry Sontag & Christopher Drew
For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man ... |
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A Concise Biographical Dictionary
Author: Charles Eugene Claghorn
This volume is the first comprehensive roster or alphabetical listing of the surnames of over 3,500 naval officers and privateersmen of the American Revolution from 1775 to 1783. The book provides each officer's name and ... |
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A Portrait of Sir Sidney Smith
Author: Joseph Hepburn Parsons
Lost for almost 100 years. An engaging portrait of the man who is arguably the greatest Admiral of the Napoleonic Wars-Sir Sidney Smith. Everyone knows the two greatest heroes and the two greatest battles of the Napoleon ... |
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Author: W. Frederick Zimmerman
A unique keepsake with beautifully printed color images of U.S.S. John C. Stennis, CVN-74. A terrific book for anyone who likes the Navy, aircraft carriers, military history, Mississippi, or the late Senator Stennis. |
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Considering the Cruisers of World War II
Author: Richard Worth
Participating in almost every major sea battle in World War II, cruisers found themselves pressed into a myriad of roles. They escorted battle lines, guarded convoys, patrolled oceans--even acted as mini-battleships, goi ... |
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America's Fightingest Ship and the Men Who Helped Win World War II
Author: Barrett Tillman
Offering a naval history of the entire Pacific Theater in World War II through the lens of its most famous ship, this is the epic and heroic story of the aircraft carrier USS "Enterprise," and of the men who fought and d ... |
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Thomas Jefferson, the First Marines and the Secret Mission of 1805
Author: Richard Zacks
This is a dramatic retelling of America's first war on terrorism. This is an authentic thriller set in the age of Napoleon and the waning days of white Christian slavery in North Africa that returns a forgotten American ... |
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