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Descent into Darkness
"Pearl Harbor, 1941: A Navy Diver's Memoir"
On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, a crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. The divers have been given a Herculean task: rescue the sailors ...
Available Formats: Softcover
British Cruisers of the Victorian Era
Available for sale only in the U.S. and Canada. Exceptions made for USNI Members.
Gradually evolving from sailing frigates, the first modern cruiser is not easy to define, but this book starts with the earliest steam paddle warships, covers the evolution of screw-driven frigates, corvettes and sloops, and then the succeeding iron, composite and steel-hulled classes down to the last ...
Available Formats: Hardcover