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

By James Young Description – November 26, 2020 "The July 1943. When the United was '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 Group Dead Man Launch: A Todd Thriller Ingram Novel ... Book by David Lynn Golemon Novel by John Gobbell Description Description The Soviet battle cruiser Simbirsk, "John J. Gobbell is the John Le which launched in and Carré of Naval thrillers." --John was reported sunk in 1944 with the Lehman, Former Secretary of loss of all hands, is still sailing the the NavyThe year is 1968, and open sea. ... Google Books global upheaval is the norm. As Originally published: June 13, 2017 the war rages in Southeast Asia, Author: David Lynn Golemon a US traitor ... Google Books Preceded by: The Traveler: An Event Group Thriller Originally published: September 26, 2017 Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure Author: John Gobbell fiction, War story Genres: Thriller, War story, Spy fiction, Nautical ______fiction ______

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The Expendable: The True were riflemen first and writers, photograpers, et Story of Patrol Wing 10, PT al, second, the CCs have gone from the highly Squadron 3, and a Navy ... trained professional newsmen of the 1940s to Book by John Lewis Floyd the dedicated trained specialists that followed. ______The Expendable is the true story of Charles Conrad Beckner, a young Navy corpsman confronting life French 1922-1956 and death in the opening battle of Book by John Jordan and Robert WWII in the Pacific. Charles leaves Dumas his Indiana sharecropper family and enlists in the Navy in 1939. ... Google Books The battleships of the Dunkerque and Originally published: August 15, 2020 Richelieu classes were the most Author: John Lewis Floyd radical and influential designs of the Genre: Autobiography interwar period, and were coveted by ______the British, the Germans and the Italians following the Armistice of June 1940. ... Google Books

Originally published: 2009 Authors: John Jordan, Robert Dumas Fighting Ships of the U. S. ______Navy 1883-2019, Volume One: Fleet Carriers, Battle From Scapa to Jutland: The ... Story of HMS Caroline ... Book by Venner F. Milewski Book by John Allison Description Description Amid the twists and turns of her This series of books provides survival to this day, the story of details of all USN warships the HMS Caroline from 1893 to the present day. spans a century and more. This Every class and individual book focuses on the role she ship has an entry providing details of the played as part of the in time of war. procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship's history and development. ... Google Books Profusely illustrated with photos. ... Google Books Originally published: 2019 Originally published: August 20, 2020 Author: John Allison Author: Venner F. Milewski ______The Glorious First of June: Fleet First to Go: The History of Battle in the Reign of Terror the USMC Combat Book by Sam Willis Correspondents Association Description Paperback – February 15, , early summer 1794. The 2018 French Revolution has been hijacked by Jack T. Paxton (Author, by the extreme Jacobins and is in the Editor), Capt. USMC (Ret.) grip of The Terror. ... Google Books (Editor) 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 Denig's Demons in WWII. Never forgetting that they

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Holding the Line: The Naval Air ______Campaign in Korea Book by Thomas McKelvey Homecomings Cleaver Book by Laura Bogan Description Description Naval and air power were crucial to The U.S. Navy Flight the ' success in the Demonstration Korean War, as it sought to negate Squadron, better known the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. as the Blue Angel, is one In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval of the most ic onic and respected aerobatics teams aviators sought to slow and cut off communist in the world. For years, photographer Laura Bogan forces and support troops on the ground. ... Google has been chronicling the Blues as they return to Books Pensacola, the team's beautiful seaside home on Originally published: March 5, 2019 Florida's Gulf Coast. ... Google Books Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver Originally published: March 5, 2019 ______Author: Laura Bogan

German The Lancastria Tragedy: Helgoland: Detailed in Sinking and Cover-up – the Original Builders' June 1940 Plans Hardcover – November 6, 2020 April 1, 2019 by Aidan Dodson by Stephen Wynn (Author) This book is the latest in a series based entirely on The story behind the sinking original draughts which of the Lancastria comes in two depict famous warships parts: the sinking of the ship in an unprecedented itself and the people who died, and the aftermath which led to degree of detail. Using the latest scanning allegations of a government technology to make digital copies of the highest cover up ordered by Winston Churchill. There is an quality it reproduces complete sets in full color with ‘officially accepted' list of those who died, but many close-ups and enlargements that make every allegations that hundreds more went down with the aspect clear and comprehensible. The result is a ship, and have not been accounted for, still linger to novel form of anatomy that will be a revelation to this very day. any warship enthusiast … The Lancastria, a pre-war Cunard cruise liner, was requisitioned by the Admiralty and turned in to a ______wartime troop ship. On 17 June 1940, whilst being used as part of Operation Aerial to evacuate civilian Heroes of the RNLI: The Storm Warriors refugees and British military personnel from France, it Book by Martyn Beardsley was anchored about 5 miles from the coast of St Nazaire. While waiting for a naval escort to see it Whenever vessels have foundered safely back to England, the Lancastria was attacked off the coasts of Britain, there have by enemy aircraft and sank within 20 minutes. As no always been those willing to give official figures have ever been released, there is no their all to save those in peril. But way of knowing exactly how many lives were lost .. in 1823, Sir William Hillary decided that this admirable but impromptu approach was not enough. ... Google Books Originally published: November 2020 Author: Martyn Beardsley 3

Modern USMC Air Lions of the Sky Power: Aircraft and Units Book by Francesco Chierici of the 'Flying In the world of fighter pilots, the Leathernecks' most alpha of the alpha, competition Book by Joe Copalman is everything and the stakes are impossibly high. A Top Gun for the As America's expeditionary new millennium, LIONS OF THE force-in-readiness, the US SKY propels us into a realm in which Marine Corps operates an friendship, loyalty, and skill are eclectic mix of fixed-wing, tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives rotary-wing, tiltrotor and irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your unmanned aircraft to support afterburners. the marine rifleman on the ground. ... Google Books Genres: Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story Originally published: November 15, 2020 ______Author: Joe Copalman ______

The Mayaguez Crisis, 's Admirals: Flag Mission Command, and Officers of the Arc de Civil-military Relations Triomphe, 1789-1815 Book by Christopher Jon Book by Richard Humble Lamb Description On the four sides of the Arc de Description Triomphe in Paris, serried President Gerald R. Ford's tablets display the names of 660 1975 decision to use force honored commanders of the Revolutionary and after the Cambodians seized . ... Google Books the SS Mayaguez merchant ship is an important Originally published: July 2019 case study in national security decision making. Author: Richard Humble ... Google Books Genre: Biography Originally published: 2018 ______Author: Christopher Jon Lamb ______The Nugget Book by P. T. Deutermann Medal with a Heart Description Book by Karen A novice naval aviator grows Kulinski into a hero in this gripping and Description authentic World War II Every medal tells a adventure by master storyteller P. story of bravery, hard T. ... Google Books work, great Originally published: October achievement. But few people know how one of 8, 2019 America's greatest military awards, The Purple Author: P. T. Deutermann Heart, came to be. The Medal With A Heart tells Genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Adventure this story, and it begins in 1782 with George fiction, War story Washington and the Revolutionary War. Google ______Books - Originally published: September 25, 2018 Author: Karen Kulinski Illustrator: Karen Gruntman ______

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The German Armoured The History of the British Cruiser SMS Blücher U Class Submarine Book by Marsden Book by Derek Walters Samuel Originally designed in 1934 for anti-submarine training, by Description the end of the war 72 U-Class subs had been The SMS Blücher was the commissioned; 17 were lost last armored cruiser built to the enemy, and 3 in by the . accidents. Manned by crews She was constructed to from seven nations' navies, counter the new armored they served worldwide, and cruisers rumored as being never more successfully than built by the British. in the Mediterranean. ... Google Books Originally published: November 30, 2004 ... Google Books Originally published: November 5, 2018 ______Author: Marsden Samuel Three War Marine Hero: ______General Raymond G. Davis Riverine Craft of the by Richard Camp · 2020

Vietnam Wars This is the old man’s third Book by Roger Branfill-Cook war!”—Dick Camp, introduction to book A native of Georgia, Raymond Davis joined the The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in- Marine Corps after university depth information about building and would go on to serve in and modifying model kits of three wars and be decorated famous warship types. Lavishly for gallantry several times ... illustrated, each book takes the ______modeller through a brief history of the subject, highlighting differences between ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. ... Google The Trafalgar Chronicle: Books Dedicated to Naval History in Originally published: September 2019 the Nelson Era: New Series 5 Author: Roger Branfill-Cook Book by John A. Rodgaard, ______Judith Pearson, and Sean Heuvel Royal Naval Submarines 1901 to 2008 The Trafalgar Chronicle is a Book by Maurice Cocker prime source of information as well as the publication of choice This is a must-buy for the for new research about the and Submarine Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as enthusiast, being a complete 'Nelson's Navy', though its scope reaches out to directory of RN submarines include all the sailing navies of the period. ... Google from the outset to the present Books day. There is a wealth of detail Originally published: November 2020 on each class. ... Google Authors: Sean Heuvel, Judith Pearson, John A. Books Rodgaard Originally published: October 2020 Author: Maurice Cocker ______

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Turret Versus Broadside: An Anatomy of British Valor in Action: The Medal Naval Prestige, Revolution of Honor Paintings of Col. and Disaster, 1860-1870 Charles Waterhouse by Howard J. Fuller · 2021 Book by Jane Waterhouse

A sweeping, in-depth examination of the legendary At the age of 82, renowned naval controversy which shook illustrator and former United the Victorian Royal Navy and States Marine Corps artist-in- climaxed in the foundering of residence Col. Charles HMS Captain in 1870. Waterhouse set out to paint US Marines and Navy ______corpsmen engaged in the acts for which they were awarded the Medal of Honor. ... Google Books

Expected on: September 28, 2020 Unsinkable: Five Men and Author: Jane Waterhouse the Indomitable Run of the ______USS Plunkett by James Sullivan · 2020 Washington's Engineer:

More than the story of a single, Louis Duportail and the savage engagement, Creation of an Army Unsinkable traces the individual Corps Hardcover – March journeys of five men on one 16, 2021 ship from Casablanca in North Africa, to Sicily and Salerno in This is an unique biography Italy and then on to Plunkett’s about an overlooked, even defining moment at Anzio, ... obscure, French officer that was ______instrumental in the American cause for independence. As a Vengeance Strikes the Blow complete biography, it covers his Book by G. Alvin Simons return to France and his service in the French army. Cementing his role in the seminal From the book: Thach used his slight events of the era, readers will also learn of his problems height advantage to roll into a under the Reign of Terror and his escape to the United run on the Nakajima's right side. He States … powered the F4F in low and steady, ______allowing himself the best chance of striking the target. Breath held, he World War II Long Island: anticipated the aircraft crossing in The Homefront in Nassau and front of his plane's nose and prepared Suffolk the deflection shot. ... Google Books by Christopher C. Verga · 2021 Originally published: November 2011 Author: G. Alvin Simons At the close of the war, the Genres: Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, War story 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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