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Against the Tide Imperial: The Britain and the Ocean Road: Struggle for Ceylon Paperback Shipwrecks and People, 1297- 1825 By James Young by Ian Friel · 2020 – November 26, 2020 July 1943. When the United The books will also interest Kingdom was torn asunder under a historians and archaeologists, as hail of German firebombs and nerve they are based on original gas, the distant outpost of Ceylon scholarship. The second book, was an afterthought for both Allies and Axis. Now, Black Oil on the Waters, will take one year after King George VI's death, the small the story from the age of steam to the 21st century. island off of India becomes center stage for a titanic ______confrontation. Against the Tide Imperial is the third novel of The Captain Class Frigates in the Usurper's War series. As Allied and Axis warriors the Second World War are faced with a completely different war than the one planned for decades, their actions will chart a new Description course for the Greatest Generation. ______"The Battle of the Atlantic was Winston Churchill's Beyond the Sea: An Event Group area greatest of concern during the Thriller Second World War. By 1943 new Book by David Lynn Golemon tactics and technology, developed out of bitter Description experience, combined with the effect of long range The Soviet battle cruiser Simbirsk, maritime patrol aircraft were beginning to tip the which launched in June 1940 and balance in the Allies' favour. ... Google Books was reported sunk in 1944 with the Originally published: 1998 loss of all hands, is still sailing the ______open sea. ... Google Books Originally published: June 13, 2017 Preceded by: The Traveler: An Event Group Thriller Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story ______

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Dead Man Launch: A Todd French Battleships 1922-1956 Ingram Novel ... Book by John Jordan and Novel by John Gobbell Robert Dumas Description "John J. Gobbell is the John Le The battleships of the Dunkerque and Richelieu Carré of Naval thrillers." --John classes were the most radical Lehman, Former Secretary of the and influential designs of the NavyThe year is 1968, and global interwar period, and were upheaval is the norm. As the war coveted by the British, the rages in Southeast Asia, a US traitor ... Google Germans and the Italians following the Armistice of Books June 1940. ... Google Books Originally published: September 26, 2017 Originally published: 2009 Genres: Thriller, War story, Spy fiction, Nautical ______From Scapa to Jutland: The fiction Story of HMS Caroline ... ______Book by John Allison Fighting Ships of the U. S. Description Navy 1883-2019, Volume One: Amid the twists and turns of Fleet Carriers, Battle ... her survival to this day, the Book by Venner F. Milewski story of the light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a century and more. This book focuses on Description the role she played as part of This series of books provides the Grand Fleet in time of war. ... Google Books details of all USN warships from Originally published: 2019 1893 to the present day. Every ______class and individual ship has an entry providing details of the procurement, dimensions and characteristics, and a summary of each ship's history The Glorious First of June: and development. Profusely illustrated with photos. Fleet Battle in the Reign of ... Google Books Terror Originally published: August 20, 2020 Book by Sam Willis ______Description France, early summer 1794. The First to Go: The History of the French Revolution has been USMC Combat Correspondents hijacked by the extreme Association Paperback – February Jacobins and is in the grip of 15, 2018 The Terror. ... Google Books by Jack T. Paxton (Author, Originally published: 2011 Editor), Capt. USMC (Ret.) ______(Editor)

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 were riflemen first and writers, photographers, et al, second, the CCs have gone from the highly trained professional newsmen of the 1940s to the dedicated trained specialists that followed. ______

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German Battleship Hell in the Central Pacific: Helgoland: Detailed in the The Palau Islands 1944 Original Builders' By Jon Diamond Plans Hardcover – April 1, 2019 In September 1944, to prevent by Aidan Dodson Japanese air interdiction against General MacArthur's planned This book is the latest in a invasion of the Southern series based entirely on Philippines, the Americans original draughts which attacked Peleliu and Angaur in depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree the Palau group of the Western of detail. Using the latest scanning technology to Caroline Islands. Admiral Halsey, commanding the US Third Fleet, feared the heavily defended Palaus would make digital copies of the highest quality it be costly for his III Amphibious Corps comprising the 1st reproduces complete sets in full color with many Marine Division and the 81st Infantry Division. close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect ______clear and comprehensible. The result is a novel form of anatomy that will be a revelation to any The Lancastria Tragedy: warship enthusiast… Sinking and Cover-up – June ______1940 November 6, 2020 Homecomings Book by Laura Bogan by Stephen Wynn (Author)

Description The story behind the sinking of The U.S. Navy Flight the Lancastria comes in two Demonstration Squadron, parts: the sinking of the ship itself better known as the Blue and the people who died, and the aftermath which led to allegations of a government cover up ordered by Angel, is one of the most ic onic and respected Winston Churchill. There is an ‘officially accepted' list aerobatics teams in the world. For years, of those who died, but allegations that hundreds more photographer Laura Bogan has been chronicling the went down with the ship, and have not been Blues as they return to Pensacola, the team's accounted for, still linger to this very day…. beautiful seaside home on Florida's Gulf Coast. ______... Google Books Originally published: March 5, 2019 Lions of the Sky ______Book by Francesco Chierici In the world of fighter pilots, the Hunter in the Stream: A Riley most alpha of the alpha, competition is everything and the stakes are Fitzhugh Novel by Terry Mort impossibly high. A Top Gun for the by Terry Mort · 2021 new millennium, LIONS OF THE SKY propels us into a realm in which Riley Fitzhugh goes through friendship, loyalty, and skill are officer training and is assigned to tested, battles won and lost in an PC 475, a new anti-U-boat vessel instant, and lives irrevocably changed in the time it stationed in Key West. The 475 is takes to plug in your afterburners. nicknamed Nameless by her Genres: Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story crew because patrol craft vessels ______were only given numbers… ______

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Medal with a Heart The Nugget Book by Karen Kulinski Book by P. T. Deutermann Description Description Every medal tells a story of A novice naval aviator grows bravery, hard work, great into a hero in this gripping and achievement. But few people authentic World War II know how one of America's adventure by master storyteller greatest military awards, The Purple Heart, came to be. P. T. ... Google Books The Medal With A Heart tells this story, and it begins in 1782 with George Washington and the Revolutionary Originally published: October War. Google Books – 8, 2019 Originally published: September 25, 2018 Genres: Thriller, Historical Fiction, Adventure Illustrator: Karen Gruntman fiction, War story ______

The Making of Paris: The The German Armoured Story of How Paris Evolved Cruiser SMS Blücher from a Fishing Village into the Book by Marsden Samuel World’s Most Beautiful City by Russell Kelley · 2021 Description The SMS Blücher was the last The Making of Paris is the story of armored cruiser built by the how Paris evolved from a small German Empire. She was fishing village on an island in the constructed to counter the new middle of the Seine River into the City of Light. ______armored cruisers rumored as being built by the British. ... Google Books Originally published: November 5, 2018 Mediterranean Naval Battles Author: Marsden Samuel that Changed the World by Quentin Russell · 2021

Focusing on seven decisive naval Riverine Craft of the Vietnam engagements from the Greek Wars defeat of the Persians at Salamis Book by Roger Branfill-Cook in the fifth century BC to the Siege of Malta during the Second The ‘ShipCraft’ series provides in- World War… depth information about building and ______modifying model kits of famous warship types. Lavishly illustrated, each book takes the modeller Napoleon's Admirals: Flag through a brief history of the subject, Officers of the Arc de highlighting differences between Triomphe, 1789-1815 ships and changes in their appearance over their careers. Book by Richard Humble ... Google Books Description Originally published: September 2019 On the four sides of the Arc de Author: Roger Branfill-Cook Triomphe in Paris, serried tablets ______display the names of 660 honored commanders of the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. ... Google Books Originally published: July 2019 Genre: Biography ______

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Royal Naval Submarines 1901 to 2008 The Trafalgar Chronicle: Book by Maurice Cocker Dedicated to Naval History in the Nelson Era: New Series 5 This is a must-buy for the Royal Book by John A. Rodgaard, Navy and Submarine enthusiast, Judith Pearson, and Sean being a complete directory of RN Heuvel submarines from the outset to the present day. There is a The Trafalgar Chronicle is a wealth of detail on each class. prime source of information as ... Google Books well as the publication of choice Originally published: October 2020 for new research about the Author: Maurice Cocker Georgian Navy, sometimes also loosely referred to as ______'Nelson's Navy', though its scope reaches out to include all the sailing navies of the period. ... Google The History of the British U Books Class Submarine Originally published: November 2020 Book by Derek Walters Authors: Sean Heuvel, Judith Pearson, John A. Originally designed in 1934 for Rodgaard anti-submarine training, by the end of the war 72 U-Class subs Turret Versus Broadside: An had been commissioned; 17 Anatomy of British Naval were lost to the enemy, and 3 in Prestige, Revolution and accidents. Manned by crews from seven nations' navies, they Disaster, 1860-1870 served worldwide, and never by Howard J. Fuller · 2021 more successfully than in the Mediterranean. ... Google Books A sweeping, in-depth Originally published: November 30, 2004 examination of the legendary ______naval controversy which shook the Victorian Royal Navy and climaxed in the foundering of Three War Marine Hero: HMS Captain in 1870. General Raymond G. Davis ______by Richard Camp · 2020 Vengeance Strikes the Blow This is the old man’s third Book by G. Alvin Simons war!”—Dick Camp, introduction to book A native of Georgia, From the book: Thach used his slight Raymond Davis joined the height advantage to roll into a beam Marine Corps after university run on the Nakajima's right side. He and would go on to serve in powered the F4F in low and steady, three wars and be decorated for allowing himself the best chance of gallantry several times ... striking the target. Breath held, he ______anticipated the aircraft crossing in front of his plane's nose and prepared the deflection shot. ... Google Books Originally published: November 2011 Author: G. Alvin Simons Genres: Historical Fiction, Adventure fiction, War story ______

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United States Navy Destroyers: Rare Photographs from The Coronado Conspiracy Wartime Archives by George Galdorisi · 1998/2017 by Michael Green · 2020 (Rick Holden Thrillers Book 1) Expert author Michael Green is to [EBOOK] be commended for compiling this comprehensive account of the Off the shore of Costa Rica, the Navy USN's impressive destroyer command ship program with its authoritative text and superb images. USS Coronado launches an all-out assault against one ______of the most powerful drug lords in Central America. The strike force is in position; the Blackhawks are armed and Valor in Action: The Medal of airborne, and the high-tech fist of the U.S. military is Honor Paintings of Col. poised to come down like a sledgehammer. Everything is going according to plan until the quiet jungle erupts in Charles Waterhouse a chaos of blood, shrapnel, and fire. Book by Jane Waterhouse When CIA Operative Rick Holden and Naval Intelligence Officer Laura Peters begin investigating the At the age of 82, renowned circumstances of the ambush, they uncover something illustrator and former United much more sinister than a failed military operation. States Marine Corps artist-in- There's a conspiracy at the very heart of the American residence Col. Charles government. Waterhouse set out to paint US And bringing down the President of the United States is Marines and Navy corpsmen engaged in the acts for only the first step... which they were awarded the Medal of Honor. ______... Google Books Expected on: September 28, 2020 For Duty and Honor Author: Jane Waterhouse by George Galdorisi · 2000/2018 ______(Rick Holden Thrillers Book 2) Washington's Engineer: Louis [EBOOK] Duportail and the Creation of an

Army Corps Hardcover – March A vicious terrorist attack leaves nearly 16, 2021 seventy U.S. sailors dead, and the entire United States Navy looking for This is an unique biography about an answers. overlooked, even obscure, French officer In the volatile waters of the Arabian Gulf, the USS Carl that was instrumental in the American Vinson Strike Group - under the command of Admiral cause for independence. As a complete Heater Robinson - stands ready to unleash the full fury biography, it covers his return to France and his service in of a nuclear aircraft carrier against America's enemies. the French army. Cementing his role in the seminal events When it becomes clear that the government has no of the era, readers will also learn of his problems under the intention of punishing the murderers, Robinson decides Reign of Terror and his escape to the United States … to take justice into his own hands, no matter what the ______cost. As a storm of terror descends upon the United States,

CIA operative and U.S. Navy SEAL Rick Holden faces a Yamato: Flagship of the moral dilemma of his own. The military elite in Japanese Imperial Navy Washington have chosen Holden to halt the cycle of by Daniel Knowles · 2021 madness. His orders: assassinate the strike group's commander, Named after the Yamato Province, Admiral Heater Robinson. Yamato was designed to counter ______the numerically superior fleet of the US Navy.

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