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U-boats offshore
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Edwin Palmer Hoyt |
We very nealy lost WWII. Not at pearl Harbor nor in the land battles of Europe, but on our own doorstep. This is the story of what happened in the early days of the war when Nazi U-boats were sent ag… |
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U.S. Submarines Since 1945
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Norman Friedman |
In the tradition of his acclaimed warship design histories, Norman Friedman describes the forces--technical, political, and operational--that shaped a vital element of U.S. sea power. For example, he… |
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War beneath the waves
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Don Keith |
In November 1943, a young officer named Charlie Rush drew duty on the USS Billfish, a submarine in the Pacific. While the Billfish was on war patrol in the Makassar Strait off Borneo, a Japanese task… |
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Shadow Divers
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Robert Kurson |
Shadow Divers is a riveting true adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery–and make history themselves.
For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler,… |
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The burning shore
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Edward Offley |
"On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, … |
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Grey wolves
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Philip Kaplan |
"In the early years of the Second World War, the elite force of German submariners known as the Ubootwaffe came perilously close to perfecting the underwater battle tactics and successfully cutting B… |
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The Battle of the Atlantic
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Jonathan Dimbleby |
Jonathan Dimbleby's The Battle of the Atlantic offers a detailed and immersive account of this campaign, placing it within the context of the war as a whole. Dimbleby delves into the politics on both… |
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The Mathews men
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William Geroux |
One of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community… |
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Kaiten
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Michael Mair,Joy Waldron |
"In November 1944, the U.S. Navy fleet lay at anchor in Ulithi Harbor, deep in the Pacific Ocean, when the oiler USS Mississinewa erupted in a ball of flames. Japan's secret weapon, the Kaiten--a man… |
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Carrier
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Jean Hood |
A century of vivid eye-witness accounts by aircraft carrier crews and their embarked naval air squadrons taken from interviews, correspondence, archived memoirs, published autobiographies and officia… |
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Silent victory
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Clay Blair |
With the content of an authoritative reference and the excitement of a thriller, this history of the U.S. submarine war is one of the most informative and entertaining books written on the Pacific ca… |
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Hirschfeld
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Wolfgang Hirschfeld |
xvi, 255 p., [16] p. of plates : 20 cm |
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Battleground Atlantic
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Richard N. Billings |
In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredient… |
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Find 'Em, Chase 'Em, Sink 'Em
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Mike Ostlund |
xviii, 524 pages : 23 cm |
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