Following the success of his first book about a U.S. Navy flight crew's desperate battle to survive a 1978 ditching in the icy north Pacific, Andrew Jampoler has turned to an equally exciting Navy adventure set in the desert of Ottoman Syria more than one hundred fifty years ago. Ordered to fix the exact elevation of the Dead Sea and ...
Shipped by rail with several other POWs across Russia, Killinger was determined to return home. In order to do this, though ...
This book presents a detailed picture of the complex and difficult process the U.S. Navy and its NATO allies faced in devising the NATO naval command structure, and explores NATO's place today in the realignment of nations.
U.S. Marines have been sent to Haiti many times since 1800, including as recently as 1995, but one of the most intriguing operations has—until now—been the least known. The 1959-63 mission exposed America's Cold War domino theory to the quagmire of Third World political tyranny. This revealing firsthand account of the operation is a tale of good intentions gone bad ...