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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 $16.95 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper 
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War at Sea in the Ironclad Age (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Richard Hill Publisher Comments < p> The nineteenth century saw several major innovations in naval warfare. Reliable steam engines made it so that ships no longer depended on the wind and could maneuver more freely. At the same time, new explosive shells were developed, replacing... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Submarine! by Edward L Beach Publisher Comments THE WAR BENEATH THE WAVES For the World War II submariner, every day was a life-or-death trial: going to sea for months at a time; existing in dank, claustrophobic conditions; enduring long stretches of monotonous silence punctuated by adrenaline-spiked... (read more) List Price $7.99 Your price: $5.50 Used - Mass Market
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War at Sea in the Age of Sail (Smithsonian History of Warfare) (Smithsonian History of Warfare) by Andrew Lambert Publisher Comments Our fascination with the drama of war at sea is as strong today as it was in the heyday of the sailing ship.This book, written by one of the world's foremost authors on naval warfare, describes the dramatic battles of an age when sail was supreme.Andrew... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The U-Boat Peril; A Fight for Survival by Bob Whinney Publisher Comments During World War II, the Allies had to win the fight at sea -- and here is the anti-submarine commander's perilous fight to destroy the German U-boats. Follow the hunt, life and death on the oceans, and the action as it moves from the Atlantic to beyond... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $2.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Ironsides! the Ship, the Men and the Wars of the USS Constitution by Charles E Brodine Publisher Comments The Story of America's Finest Ship As Told by Three of Her Finest Historians On October 21st 1797, the 44-gun frigate Constitution slid down the ramp at Hartt's shipyard and into the chilly waters of Boston Harbor. While the workmen were proud of their... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Cochrane: The Real Master and Commander by David Cordingly Publisher Comments From the bestselling author of Under the Black Flag comes the definitive biography of Thomas Cochrane, the swashbuckling nineteenth-century maritime hero who “packed [in] enough drama and history to shame both Horatio Nelson and Sir Francis Drake&#... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Soviet Warship Development Volume 1 1917 193 by Siegried Breyer Synopsis The only comprehensive study of the development of Soviet warship design and construction from tsarist warship construction to Soviet construction programs through 1937.... (read more) Your price: $50.00 Used - Hardcover
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Lost Warships: An Archaeological Tour of War at Sea by James P Delgado Publisher Comments Spanning the period from the defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at Actium to the 1946 nuclear detonations at Bikini... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $13.95 Used - Hardcover 
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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: $5.50 Used - Trade Paper
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John Paul Jones: Sailor, Hero, Father of the American Navy by Evan Thomas Publisher Comments This biography of the ruthless, clever and indomitable American hero of the Age of Sailing teaches us that it took fighters as well as high-minded principle to break free of the past and start a new world.... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $5.75 Used - Trade Paper
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If by Sea: The Forging of the American Navy--From the Revolution to the War of 1812 by George Daughan Publisher Comments The American Revolution-and thus the history of the United States-began not on land but on the sea. Paul Revere began his famous midnight ride not by jumping on a horse, but by scrambling into a skiff with two other brave patriots to cross Boston Harbor... (read more) List Price $30.00 Your price: $11.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story of the USS Scorpion by Ed Offley Publisher Comments One Navy admiral called it “one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era.” The U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster eluded journalists, historians, and the family... (read more) List Price $16.95 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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At All Costs: How a Crippled Ship and Two American Merchant Mariners Turned the Tide of World War II by Sam Moses Publisher Comments In this gripping, page-turning account, Sam Moses has told a story in the tradition of Sebastian Junger’s A Perfect Storm, Robert Kurson’s Shadow Divers, and Hampton Sides’s Ghost Soldiers. It’s a story about the heroism of two... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Blood in the Sea: HMS Dunedin and the Enigma Code by Stuart Gill Publisher Comments This harrowing tale of survival pays moving tribute to the courageous British sailors of World War II, and offers entrance into the ultra-secret world of British code-breaking. In November 1941, the British light cruiser HMS Dunedin was patrolling the... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $5.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Nelson's Trafalgar: The Battle That Changed the World by Roy Adkins Publisher Comments An explosive chronicle of historys greatest sea battle In the tradition of Antony Beevors Stalingrad, Nelsons Trafalgar presents the definitive blow-by-blow account of the worlds most famous naval battle, when the British Royal Navy under Lord Horatio... (read more) List Price $16.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Silent Steel by Stephen Johnson Publisher Comments At last, the truth about what happened to a doomed U.S. submarine On May 22, 1968, the U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion was lost in the mid-Atlantic with its crew of 99. Was it sunk by the Soviets? Destroyed by its own torpedo? Flooded by a faulty trash... (read more) List Price $25.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Hardcover
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Submarines by David Miller Publisher Comments A history of 250 submarines, from the 1860s to today. 300 illus.... (read more) Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The War for All the Oceans: From Nelson at the Nile to Napoleon at Waterloo by Roy Adkins Publisher Comments As he did with his much lauded Nelson's Trafalgar, Roy Adkins (now writing with wife Lesley) again thrusts readers into the perils and thrills of early-nineteenth-century warfare. From its very first page, this is an adventure storya superb account of... (read more) List Price $17.00 Your price: $7.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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The Tsar's Last Armada: The Epic Voyage to the Battle of Tsushima by Constanti Pleshakov Publisher Comments On May 14-15, 1905, in the Tsushima Straits near Japan, an entire Russian fleet was annihilated, its ships sunk, scattered, or captured by the Japanese. In the deciding battle of the Russo-Japanese War, the Japanese lost only three destroyers but the... (read more) List Price $19.50 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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