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Q-Ships Versus U-Boats
America's Secret Project
Basing his narrative upon research, his own experiences aboard the USS Asterion , and conjecture, U.S. Navy officer Beyer reconstructs the events of the confrontations of the U.S. warships USS Asterion and USS Atik (Disguised as merchant marines in an ill-fated attempt to counter German submarine warfare) with the German navy during World War II.
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Battleships of the Scharnhorst Class
The Scharnhorst and Gneisenau: The Backbone of the German Surface Forces at the Outbreak of War
The warships of the World War II German Navy are among the most popular subjects in naval history, and one of the best collections is the concise but authoritative six volume series written by Gerhard Koop and illustrated by Klaus-Peter Schmolke. Each book contains an account of the development of a particular class, a detailed description of the ships, with ...
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Feet to the Fire
"CIA Covert Operations in Indonesia, 1957-1958"
More than forty years ago the Central Intelligence Agency began a top-secret covert action campaign designed to hold Indonesia's left-leaning President Sukarno's feet to the fire and prevent a strategic crossroad from falling into the communist camp. In a fast-paced, engrossing narrative evoking the novels of John LeCarré and Graham Greene, the authors provide the first unclassified, detailed case study ...
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