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Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by Alex Kershaw  Publisher Comments By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy...
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Sub: An Oral History of US Navy Submarines
by Mark Roberts Publisher Comments True tales of life and death as told by those who fought in the briny depths. From the undersea warfare of World War II through the Cold War stand-offs in the deep to the cutting-edge technology of the modern U.S. Navy, submarines have evolved into the...
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All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
by Kenneth Sewell and Jerome Preisler Publisher Comments Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of ninety-nine lives. The tragedy occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and it followed by only...
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The Terrible Hours: The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by Peter Maas Publisher Comments On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic.Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived.While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend...
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
by Sherry Sontag Publisher Comments Includes a new afterword describing submariners' responses and reactions and a new appendix of all award-winning subs honored for service in Cold War espionage operations. With 16 pages of black-and-white...
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To the Last Salute: Memories of an Austrian U-Boat Commander
by Georg Von Trapp Publisher Comments The Sound of Music endeared Georg von Trapp (1880–1947) and his singing family to the world, and it also showed us how desperately the Nazis wanted Captain von Trapp for their navy. In To the Last Salute we learn why. Trapp’s own story of his...
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Midget Submarines of the Second World War (Shipshape)
by Paul Kemp Publisher Comments An essential reference for all naval historians, enthusiasts and model makers with an interest in one of the most daring and dangerous forms of naval warfare....
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Final Patrol: True Stories of World War II Submarines
by Don Keith Synopsis The riveting story behind the submarines that wreaked havoc during World War II-from the award-winning author of "In the Course of Duty" During World War II, the U.S. Navy's submarine service suffered the highest casualty percentage of all the American...
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Scorpion Down: Sunk by the Soviets, Buried by the Pentagon: The Untold Story Ofthe USS Scorpion
by Ed Offley Publisher Comments One Navy admiral called it “one of the greatest unsolved sea mysteries of our era.” To this day, the U.S. Navy officially describes it an inexplicable accident. For decades, the real story of the disaster has eluded journalists, historians, and the...
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Red Star Rogue: The Untold Story of a Soviet Sumbarine's Nuclear Strike Attempt on the U.S.
by Kenneth Sewell Publisher Comments March 7, 1968: Several hundred miles northwest of Hawaii, the nuclear-armed K-129 surfaces and then sinks; all of its crewmen and officers perish at sea. Who was commanding the rogue Russian sub? What was its target? How did it infiltrate American waters...
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Silent Steel
by Stephen Johnson Publisher Comments On May 22, 1968, the U.S. nuclear submarine Scorpion sank in 11,000 of water with its crew of 99. Why has never been adequately explained, although some incredible theories have been put forth: The Scorpion was sunk by the Russians. It was blown up by...
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The Submarine: A History
by Tom Parrish Synopsis As entertaining as a high-tech thriller, The Submarine is essential reading for understanding the last hundred years of war. It tells the story of the dreamers who first imagined submersible ships and the ingenious and practical engineers who created...
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Deep Sound Channel
by Joe Buff Publisher Comments An electrifying new voice in military fiction, Joe Buff has written a riveting and totally realistic tale of military adventure-a spectacular novel that is sure to establish this outstanding author as the new master of the genre. Vividly authentic and...
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Submarine!
by Edward Latime 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...
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One of Our Submarines
by Edward Young Publisher Comments The Wordsworth Military Library covers the breadth of military history, including studies of individual leaders and accounts of major campaigns and great conflicts....
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Attack Submarines: The Seawolf Class (War Machines)
by Michael Green Synopsis - Full-color photographs - Table of contents, glossary, bibliography, addresses, index - Reinforced library binding - 32 pages, size: 7" x 9" - Learn about chapter introductions - Contextual definitions of unfamiliar terms - www.FactHound.com Internet...
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Wolf Pack: The Story of the U-Boat in World War II
by Gordon Williamson Synopsis Germany's World War II U-Boat fleet represented the elite of their naval personnel. In terms of technology, training, tactics and combat successes, the U-Boat Waffe was far superior to that of any other combatant nation. In this comprehensive book, the...
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Jane's Submarines: War Beneath the Waves from 1776 to the Present Day
by Robert Hutchinson Synopsis An illustrated account of the war beneath the waves. This reference covers: the first submarines; World War I; World War II; "Cold War" submarine operations; and submarines of the future. The book covers anti-submarine warships and weapons as well as the...
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K-19
by Peter H Huchthausen Publisher Comments The Soviet nuclear submarine K-19 was the pride of the Soviet Navy, but on July 4, 1961, during its maiden voyage to the North Atlantic for war games, it suddenly and unexpectedly developed a serious leak in one of the reactors. In a race against time...
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The Legend of Electric Boat: Serving the Silent Service
by Jeffrey L Rodengen Synopsis The first historian to be granted full access to Electric Boat's vaulted archives in nearly a hundred years, Jeffrey L. Rodengen has produced yet another intriguing work for naval historians and landlubbers alike. Serving the Silent Service: The Legend...
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