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These facsimile editions effectively trace the revolutionary shift of the U.S. Navy from the huge wartime fleet of the forties to that of the modern...
Universally known as the Colledge, this valuable reference is the automatic starting point for research on Royal Navy ships. First published in 1970...
The war diary of former German naval officer Otto Giese recounts a seafaring career of extraordinary scope. It begins with the dawn of World War II,...
An Anglican clergyman best remembered as the author of the hymn Amazing Grace, John Newton was engaged in the slave trade for the first thirty years...
The crew of an old U.S. Navy destroyer steaming toward a deadly battle in the Java Sea is the focus of this famous novel set at the outbreak of World...
No mythic journey, this tale of adventure on the high seas is completely true, told by a writer who spent World War II in warships of the Royal Navy...