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Rickover and the Nuclear Navy
The Discipline of Technology
By Francis Duncan
No book will ever come closer than this to providing an inside overview of Admiral Hyman G. Rickover’s nuclear propulsion program. The author, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) historian assigned to the admiral’s office, spent years observing the project and its controversial leader in action, and the insights he provides here reflect both his familiarity with the subject and his ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Destruction of the Steamboat Sultana
The Worst Maritime Disaster in American History
By Gene Eric Salecker

The Sultana was a sidewheel Mississippi steamboat carrying almost two thousand recently-released Union prisoners-of-war back north at the end of the Civil War. At 2:00 a.m. on April 27, 1865, when the boat was seven miles above Memphis, her boilers exploded. Almost 1,200 people perished in the worst maritime disaster in United States history.

Gene Eric  Salecker covers this disaster in detail and dispels the many myths that ...

Available Formats: Hardcover
The WRNS
A History of the Women's Royal Naval Service
By M. H. Fletcher
Available Formats: Hardcover
Proudly We Served
The Men of the USS Mason
By Mary Pat Kelly
Few Americans know the history-changing story of the men of the USS Mason, the only African-American sailors to take a World War II warship into combat. At a time when most blacks in the Navy were relegated to stewards or laborers, the crew of the USS Mason escorted six convoys across the perilous North Atlantic, helped to win the ...
Available Formats: Softcover
Joshua Barney
Hero of the Revolution and 1812
By Louis Arthur Norton
Little has been published about the life of Baltimore’s Commodore Joshua Barney, a man who earned a commission in the nascent Continental Navy, sailed as a privateer, and served as a commodore in both the French and American navies. Louis Norton’s biography scrutinizes Barney's colorful life and critically analyzes events that forged his character.
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Torpedo Junction
U-Boat War Off America's East Coast, 1942
By Homer H. Hickam Jr
In 1942 German U-boats turned the shipping lanes off Cape Hatteras into a sea of death. Cruising up and down the U.S. eastern seaboard, they sank 259 ships, littering the waters with cargo and bodies. As astonished civilians witnessed explosions from American beaches, fighting men dubbed the area "Torpedo Junction." And while the U.S. Navy failed to react, a handful ...
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