Naval category: 2015 books
All the Gallant Men
An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2016
THE FIRST MEMOIR BY A USS ARIZONA SURVIVOR: Donald Stratton, one of the battleship's five living heroes, delivers a "powerful" and "intimate"* eyewitness account of Pearl Harbor and his unforgettable return to the fight
At 8:10 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First...
Eyes on Target
Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs
Language: English
Release Date: February 25, 2014
Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired...
No Ordinary Joes
The Extraordinary True Story of Four Submariners in War and Love and Life
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2010
On April 23, 1943,the seventy-man crew of the USS Grenadierscrambled to save their submarine—and themselves—after a Japanese aerial torpedo sent it crashing to the ocean floor. Miraculously, the men were able to bring the sub back to the surface, only to be captured by the Japanese.
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by Andrew Lambert
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2011
The true story of how Britain's maritime power helped gain this country unparalleled dominance of the world's economy, Admirals celebrates the rare talents of the men who shaped the most successful fighting force in world history. Told through the lives and battles of eleven of our most remarkable...
Last Flag Down
The Epic Journey of the Last Confederate Warship
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2007
As the Confederacy felt itself slipping beneath the Union juggernaut in late 1864, the South launched a desperate counteroffensive to shatter the U.S. economy and force a standoff. Its secret weapon? A state-of-the-art raiding ship whose mission was to prowl the world’s oceans and sink the U.S....
Bismarck
The Chase and Sinking of Hitler's Goliath
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Sunk on her first and only war cruise, 27 May 1941, this great victory for the Royal Navy was also a human tragedy. Only 114 of her 2,200 crew survived the Royal Navy’s final storm of shells and torpedoes. Despite her short career, the story of Bismarck and the precise reasons for her loss have...
The Pirate Round
Book Three of the Brethren of the Coast
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
In 1706, war still rages in Europe, and the tobacco planters of the Virginia colony's tidewater struggle against shrinking markets and pirates lurking off the coast. But American seafarers have found a new source of wealth: the Indian Ocean and ships carrying fabulous treasure to the great Mogul of...
Twelve Desperate Miles
The Epic World War II Voyage of the SS Contessa
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2012
The Dirty Dozen meets Band of Brothers in this true story of how a rusty old New Orleans banana boat staffed with an unlikely crew of international merchant seamen, a gang of inmates from a local jail, and a French harbor pilot spirited out of Morocco by O.S.S. agents in the trunk of a Chevy,...
by Ian W. Toll
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 17, 2008
"A fluent, intelligent history...give[s] the reader a feel for the human quirks and harsh demands of life at sea."—New York Times Book Review
Before the ink was dry on the U.S. Constitution, the establishment of a permanent military became the most divisive issue facing the new government....
Peleliu 1944
The forgotten corner of hell
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Equalling Tarawa, Iwo Jima and Okinawa in scale and ferocity, the battle for Peleliu has long been regarded as the Pacific War's "forgotten battle†?, and perhaps one that should never have been fought. A massive carrier-based attack some weeks before the invasion destroyed all aircraft and...
The March Up
Taking Baghdad with the United States Marines
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
BONUS: This edition contains excerpts from Bing West's No True Glory and The Strongest Tribe.
With unprecedented access and previously unreported detail, here is a first hand account of the 22-day march to Baghdad that takes you behind the scenes and to the front line...
No one reporting...
At All Costs
How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: November 7, 2006
In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two men in battle at sea during World War II, and one woman fleeing...
Blind Man's Bluff
The Untold Story Of American Submarine Espionage
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2008
Discover 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 Bluff is an exciting, epic story of adventure, ingenuity, courage, and disaster beneath the...
by Bruce Gaughran
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2014
Novella - Four stories, one poem, and Background on CTF-117 taken from the author's personal experiences during his tour of duty as a River Rat with the Mobile Riverine Force in the Mekong Delta, Republic of Vietnam. Plus, four other stories that reflect the trials and tribulations of those of us...