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Against the Tide Imperial: The The Captain Class Frigates in Struggle for Ceylon Paperback the Second World War

By James Young Description – November 26, 2020 "The Battle of the Atlantic July 1943. When the United was Winston Churchill's Kingdom was torn asunder under area greatest of concern a hail of German firebombs and during the Second World nerve gas, the distant outpost of War. By 1943 new tactics Ceylon was an afterthought for both Allies and Axis. Now, one year after King George and technology, developed VI's death, the small island off of India becomes out of bitter experience, combined with the center stage for a titanic confrontation. effect of long range maritime patrol aircraft Against the Tide Imperial is the third novel of were beginning to tip the balance in the Allies' the Usurper's War series. As Allied and Axis warriors favour. ... Google Books are faced with a completely different war than the one Originally published: 1998 planned for decades, their actions will chart a new Author: Donald Collingwood course for the Greatest Generation. ______

Beyond the Sea: An Event Dead Man Launch: A Todd Group Thriller Ingram Novel ... Book by David Lynn Golemon Novel by John Gobbell Description Description The Soviet battle cruiser "John J. Gobbell is the John Le Simbirsk, which launched in Carré of Naval thrillers." --John June 1940 and was reported Lehman, Former Secretary of sunk in 1944 with the loss of all the NavyThe year is 1968, and hands, is still sailing the open global upheaval is the norm. As sea. ... Google Books the war rages in Southeast Asia, Originally published: June 13, 2017 a US traitor ... Google Books Author: David Lynn Golemon Preceded by: The Traveler: An Event Group Originally published: September 26, 2017 Thriller Author: John Gobbell Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure Genres: Thriller, War story, Spy fiction, Nautical fiction, War story fiction ______

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Fighting Ships of the U. S. From Scapa to Jutland: The Navy 1883-2019, Volume Story of HMS Caroline ... One: Fleet Carriers, Battle ... Book by John Allison Book by Venner F. Milewski Description Amid the twists and turns of Description her survival to this day, the story of the HMS This series of books provides details of all USN warships from Caroline spans a century and 1893 to the present day. Every more. This book focuses on class and individual ship has an the role she played as part of entry providing details of the procurement, the in time of war. ... Google Books dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of Originally published: 2019 each ship's history and development. Profusely Author: John Allison illustrated with photos. ... Google Books ______Originally published: August 20, 2020 Author: Venner F. Milewski ______The Glorious First of June: Fleet Battle in the Reign of First to Go: The History of Terror the USMC Combat Book by Sam Willis Correspondents Association Description Paperback – February 15, France, early summer 1794. The 2018 French Revolution has been by Jack T. Paxton (Author, hijacked by the extreme Editor), Capt. USMC (Ret.) Jacobins and is in the grip of (Editor) The Terror. ... Google Books Originally published: 2011 Author: Sam Willis The Marine Corps Combat Correspondents trace ______their history to the pioneering work started by Brigadier Gen. Robert L. Denig, Sr., who began German Denig's Demons in WWII. Never forgetting that Helgoland: Detailed in the they were riflemen first and writers, photograpers, Original Builders' et al, second, the CCs have gone from the highly Plans Hardcover – April 1, trained professional newsmen of the 1940s to the 2019 dedicated trained specialists that followed. by Aidan Dodson ______This book is the latest in a series based entirely on French 1922-1956 original draughts which Book by John Jordan and depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree Robert Dumas of detail. Using the latest scanning technology to

make digital copies of the highest quality it The battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu reproduces complete sets in full color with many classes were the most radical close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect and influential designs of the clear and comprehensible. The result is a novel interwar period, and were form of anatomy that will be a revelation to any coveted by the British, the Germans and the Italians warship enthusiast… following the Armistice of June 1940. ... Google Books ______Originally published: 2009 Authors: John Jordan, Robert Dumas ______2

Homecomings The Lancastria Tragedy: Book by Laura Bogan Sinking and Cover-up – June Description 1940 The U.S. Navy Flight November 6, 2020 Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue by Stephen Wynn (Author) Angel, is one of the most ic onic and respected aerobatics teams in the world. The story behind the sinking of the For years, photographer Laura Bogan has been Lancastria comes in two parts: the sinking of the ship itself and the chronicling the Blues as they return to Pensacola, people who died, and the aftermath which led to the team's beautiful seaside home on Florida's Gulf allegations of a government cover up ordered by Coast. ... Google Books Winston Churchill. There is an ‘officially accepted' list Originally published: March 5, 2019 of those who died, but allegations that hundreds more Author: Laura Bogan went down with the ship, and have not been ______accounted for, still linger to this very day….

Hunter in the Stream: A Riley Fitzhugh Novel by Terry Mort Lions of the Sky by Terry Mort · 2021 Book by Francesco Chierici In the world of fighter pilots, the Riley Fitzhugh goes through most alpha of the alpha, competition officer training and is assigned to is everything and the stakes are PC 475, a new anti-U-boat vessel impossibly high. A Top Gun for the stationed in Key West. The 475 is new millennium, LIONS OF THE nicknamed Nameless by her SKY propels us into a realm in which crew because patrol craft vessels friendship, loyalty, and skill are were only given numbers… tested, battles won and lost in an ______instant, and lives irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your afterburners. Genres: Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story Hell in the Central Pacific: ______The Palau Islands 1944 By Jon Diamond Medal with a Heart

In September 1944, to prevent Book by Karen Japanese air interdiction Kulinski against General MacArthur's Description planned invasion of the Every medal tells a Southern Philippines, the story of bravery, hard Americans attacked Peleliu and Angaur in the Palau group work, great of the Western Caroline Islands. Admiral Halsey, achievement. But few commanding the US Third Fleet, feared the heavily people know how one of America's greatest military defended Palaus would be costly for his III Amphibious awards, The Purple Heart, came to be. The Medal Corps comprising the 1st Marine Division and the 81st With A Heart tells this story, and it begins in 1782 Infantry Division. with George Washington and the Revolutionary ______War. Google Books - Originally published: September 25, 2018 Author: Karen Kulinski Illustrator: Karen Gruntman ______

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Modern USMC Air Napoleon's Admirals: Flag Power: Aircraft and Units Officers of the Arc de of the 'Flying Triomphe, 1789-1815 Leathernecks' Book by Richard Humble Book by Joe Copalman Description On the four sides of the Arc As America's expeditionary de Triomphe in Paris, serried force-in-readiness, the US Marine Corps operates an tablets display the names of eclectic mix of fixed-wing, 660 honored commanders of rotary-wing, tiltrotor and the Revolutionary and unmanned aircraft to support Napoleonic Wars. ... Google the marine rifleman on the ground. ... Google Books Books Originally published: November 15, 2020 Originally published: July 2019 Author: Joe Copalman Author: Richard Humble ______Genre: Biography ______The Making of Paris: The Story of How Paris The Nugget Evolved from a Fishing Book by P. T. Deutermann Village into the World’s Description Most Beautiful City A novice naval aviator grows by Russell Kelley · 2021 into a hero in this gripping and The Making of Paris is the authentic World War II story of how Paris evolved adventure by master storyteller from a small fishing village P. T. ... Google Books on an island in the middle Originally published: October of the Seine River into the 8, 2019 City of Light. Author: P. T. Deutermann ______Genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, War story Mediterranean Naval ______Battles that Changed the World The German Armoured by Quentin Russell · 2021 Cruiser SMS Blücher

Focusing on seven decisive Book by Marsden Samuel naval engagements from the Greek defeat of the Persians Description at Salamis in the fifth century The SMS Blücher was the last BC to the Siege of Malta armored cruiser built by the during the Second World . She was War… constructed to counter the new ______armored cruisers rumored as being built by the British. ... Google Books Originally published: November 5, 2018 Author: Marsden Samuel

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Riverine Craft of the Vietnam Three War Marine Hero: Wars General Raymond G. Davis Book by Roger Branfill-Cook by Richard Camp · 2020

The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in- This is the old man’s third depth information about building and war!”—Dick Camp, introduction modifying model kits of famous to book A native of Georgia, warship types. Lavishly illustrated, Raymond Davis joined the each book takes the modeller Marine Corps after university through a brief history of the subject, and would go on to serve in highlighting differences between three wars and be decorated ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. for gallantry several times ...... Google Books ______Originally published: September 2019 Author: Roger Branfill-Cook The Trafalgar Chronicle: ______Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 5 Royal Naval Submarines Book by John A. Rodgaard, 1901 to 2008 Judith Pearson, and Sean Book by Maurice Cocker Heuvel

This is a must-buy for the Royal The Trafalgar Chronicle is a Navy and Submarine prime source of information as enthusiast, being a complete well as the publication of choice directory of RN submarines for new research about the from the outset to the present Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as day. There is a wealth of detail 'Nelson's Navy', though its scope reaches out to on each class. ... Google Books include all the sailing navies of the period. ... Google Originally published: October 2020 Books Author: Maurice Cocker Originally published: November 2020 ______Authors: Sean Heuvel, Judith Pearson, John A. Rodgaard The History of the British U Class Submarine Turret Versus Broadside: Book by Derek Walters An Anatomy of British Originally designed in 1934 Naval Prestige, Revolution for anti-submarine training, by and Disaster, 1860-1870 the end of the war 72 U-Class by Howard J. Fuller · 2021 subs had been

commissioned; 17 were lost A sweeping, in-depth to the enemy, and 3 in examination of the legendary accidents. Manned by crews naval controversy which shook from seven nations' navies, the Victorian and they served worldwide, and climaxed in the foundering of never more successfully than HMS Captain in 1870. in the Mediterranean. ... Google Books Originally published: November 30, 2004 ______

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Unsinkable: Five Men and Valor in Action: The Medal the Indomitable Run of the of Honor Paintings of Col. USS Plunkett Charles Waterhouse by James Sullivan · 2020 Book by Jane Waterhouse

More than the story of a single, At the age of 82, renowned savage engagement, illustrator and former United Unsinkable traces the individual States Marine Corps artist-in- journeys of five men on one residence Col. Charles ship from Casablanca in North Waterhouse set out to paint US Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in Marines and Navy corpsmen engaged in the acts for Italy and then on to Plunkett’s which they were awarded the Medal of Honor. defining moment at Anzio, ...... Google Books ______Expected on: September 28, 2020 Author: Jane Waterhouse Vengeance Strikes the Blow ______Book by G. Alvin Simons Unlike Anything That Ever From the book: Thach used his slight Floated: The Monitor and height advantage to roll into a Virginia and the Battle of run on the Nakajima's right side. He powered the F4F in low and steady, Hampton Roads, March 8-9, allowing himself the best chance of 1862 striking the target. Breath held, he by Dwight Sturtevant Hughes anticipated the aircraft crossing in · 2021 front of his plane's nose and prepared the deflection shot. ... Google Books "Ironclad against ironclad, we Originally published: November 2011 maneuvered about the bay here and went at each other with mutual Author: G. Alvin Simons fierceness," reported Chief Engineer Alban Stimers Genres: Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, War story following that momentous engagement between the ______USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia (ex USS Merrimack) in Hampton Roads, Sunday, March 9, 1862. United States Navy ______Destroyers: Rare Photographs from Victory: World War II in Real Wartime Archives Time: by the Associated Press · 2020 by Michael Green · 2020 A commemoration of the 75th Expert author Michael Green is anniversary of the WWII to be commended for compiling victory, Victory covers the war this comprehensive account of through "breaking news" stories and the USN's impressive destroyer program with its photographs from the Associated authoritative text and superb images. Press--the main US chronicler of the conflict. ______

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Washington's Engineer: Louis Yamato: Flagship of the Duportail and the Creation of Japanese Imperial Navy an Army Corps Hardcover – by Daniel Knowles · 2021 March 16, 2021 Named after the Yamato Province, This is an unique biography about an Yamato was designed to counter overlooked, even obscure, French the numerically superior fleet of the officer that was instrumental in the US Navy. American cause for independence. As a complete biography, it covers his ______return to France and his service in the French army. Cementing his role in the seminal events of the era, readers will also learn of his problems under the Reign of Terror and his escape to the United States … ______

World War II Long Island: The Homefront in Nassau and Suffolk

by Christopher C. Verga · 2021

At the close of the war, the United Nations established itself in a weapons factory in Lake Success. Author Christopher Verga charts the rise of Long Island and its role in World War II. ______

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