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Six Frigates: The Epic History of the Founding of the U.S. Navy by Ian W. Toll Staff Pick The birth of the U.S. Navy and its coming-of-age engagements are the subject of this richly told and intriguing history. More than a maritime account, this action-filled read skillfully relates the struggles of our country in its infancy.... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $9.98 Sale - Trade Paper 
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments Two investigative reporters and a researcher tell the epic story of American espionage from the early Cold War Years to the Clinton Administration, showing how the Navy and CIA have used submarines to gather intelligence and launch covert operations... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $2.95 Used - Mass Market
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To Rule the Waves: How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World (P.S.) by Arthur Herman Publisher Comments To Rule the Waves tells the extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history. From the navy's beginnings under Henry VIII to the age of computer warfare and special ops, historian... (read more) List Price $15.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Warrior #131: Nelson's Officers and Midshipmen by Gregory Barnes Publisher Comments Immortalized in literature through such characters as C. S. Forester's 'Horatio Hornblower' and Patrick O'Brian's 'Jack Aubrey', the officers and midshipmen of the Royal Navy during the Revolutionary (1792-1802) and Napoleonic Wars (1799-1815) ran the... (read more) List Price $18.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Greek and Roman Naval Warfare: A Study of Strategy, Tactics, and Ship Design from Salamis (480 B.C.) to Actium (31 B.C.) by William L Rodgers Synopsis This reissue of a 1937 classic covers ancient naval warfare from the Greco-Persian War to the Campaign of Actium.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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The Command of the Ocean: A Naval History of Britain, 1649-1815 by N A M Rodger Publisher Comments The Command of the Ocean describes with unprecedented authority and scholarship the rise of Britain to naval greatness, and the central place of the Navy and naval activity in the life of the nation and government. Based on the author's own research in a... (read more) Your price: $10.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Price of Admiralty: The Evolution of Naval Warfare by John Keegan Publisher Comments Keegan illuminates the history of naval combat by expertly dissecting four landmark sea battles, each featuring a different type of warship: The Battle of Trafalgar, the Battle of Jutland in World War I, the Battle of Midway in World War II, and the long... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Line Upon a Wind: The Great War at Sea, 1793-1815 by Noel Mostert Publisher Comments In February 1793 France declared war on Britain, and for the next twenty-two years the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars raged. This was to be the longest, cruelest war ever fought at sea, comparable in scale only to the Second World War. New naval... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Hardcover
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Time To Die, A: the Kursk Disaster by Robert Moore Synopsis At 11.30am on Saturday 12 August 2000, two massive explosions roared through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea and the Kursk hurtled towards the sea bed. Investigating the political and historical background, Robert Moore recreates the... (read more) Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Monitor the Story of the Legendary Civil by James Terius Dekay Publisher Comments The USS Monitor sealed the doom of the Confederacy and forever changed the face of naval warfare. Now naval historian James Tertius deKay turns the invention and deployment of the indomitable ironclad into a superb human drama. The creation of a... (read more) Your price: $1.75 Used - Trade Paper
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Explosion Aboard the Iowa by Richard L Schwoebel Publisher Comments Written by the head of the technical investigating team, this book examines the key factors in the 1989 explosion that killed 47 crewmen.... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $8.50 Used - Hardcover
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At War at Sea: Sailors and Naval Combat in the Twentieth Century by Ronald H Spector Publisher Comments Beginning with a gripping account of one of the most decisive naval battles in history-the 1905 battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and Russians-and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements of the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Reign of Iron: The Story of the First Battling Ironclads, the Monitor and the Merrimack by James L Nelson Publisher Comments Chapter One Sink Before Surrender Saturday, March 8, 1862, was a beautiful day in Virginia. A gale had blown itself out the night before, and behind it came clear, warm weather, a high-pressure system on the tail of the storm. A day more like May than... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.50 Used - Hardcover
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New Brunswick Military Heritage #16: New Brunswick and the Navy: Four Hundred Years by Marc Milner Publisher Comments From the seafaring battles between the British and the French of the 1640s to the privateers of the War of 1812, from the merchant ships of the Second World War to the construction of the corvettes and frigates in the 20th century, New Brunswick has... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments For decades American submarines have roamed the depths in a dangerous battle for information and advantage in missions known only to a select few. Now, after six years of research, those missions are told in Blind Man's Bluff, a magnificent achievement... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Autobiography of a Seaman by Admiral Lo Cochrane Publisher Comments Napoleon called him le loup des mers ('the sea wolf'). One cannot visit a town in Chile (where he is seen as a hero) without crossing at least one street or town square that bears his name. He proposed the use of saturation bombing and chemical warfare... (read more) List Price $19.95 Your price: $13.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The yard :building a destroyer at the Bath Iron Works by Michael S Sanders Synopsis This dramatic account of the building and launch of the destroyer U.S.S. "Donald Cook" at the century-old Bath Iron Works in Maine, one of the greatest shipyards in the United States, is also the chronicle of the end of an era. Photos.... (read more) List Price $26.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Hardcover
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Under Pressure: The Last Voyage of Submarine S-Five by A J Hill Synopsis The "S-Five, " the newest of the U.S. Navy's fleet of submarines, was launched on its maiden voyage in August 1920 from Boston, heading for Baltimore. Two days into the trip, a faulty valve leads to the sinking of the "S-Five." This is the incredible... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $6.95 Used - Hardcover
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If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--From the Revolution to the War of 1812 by George C Daughan Publisher Comments Most historians trace the origins of the Continental Navy to George Washingtons official inauguration of the Federal Navy in 1793, but the story actually begins years earlier: in 1775, at the advent of the American Revolution. In If By Sea, historian... (read more) List Price $19.99 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Seize the Fire: Heroism, Duty, and Nelson's Battle of Trafalgar (P.S.) by Adam Nicolson Publisher Comments In October 1805 Lord Horatio Nelson, the most brilliant sea commander who ever lived, led the British Royal Navy to a devastating victory over the Franco-Spanish fleets at the great battle of Trafalgar. It was the foundation of Britain's nineteenth... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $4.50 Used - Trade Paper
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