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  • Descent into Darkness

    Pearl Harbor, 1941—A Navy Diver's Memoir

    by Edward C. Raymer ...
    On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese ttack 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 and Marines trapped below, and resurrect the pride of the Pacific ... Read more

    $15.89 USD

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  • My Bloody Efforts

    Life as a Rating in the Modern Royal Navy

    by Stephen Bridgman MBE ...
    In May 2000 the British nuclear hunter-killer submarine HMS Tireless limped into Gibraltar using emergency propulsion and with her nuclear reactor shut down. Days earlier, while traversing the Straits of Sicily the crew had discovered a crack in one of the nuclear reactor pipes, requiring the immediate shutting down of the reactor to prevent a potential reactor accident, an operation never before ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Steel Boat, Iron Hearts

    A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505

    by Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo ...
    The story of the German submarine U-505 and its dramatic capture by the US Navy during WWII—told by one of its crewmen.Hans Goebeler is known as the man who "pulled the plug" on U-505 in 1944 to keep his beloved U-boat out of Allied hands. Steel Boat, Iron Hearts is his no-holds-barred account of service aboard a combat U-boat. It is the only full-length memoir of its kind, and Goebeler was aboard ... Read more

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

    The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour

    by James D. Hornfischer ...
    “This will be a fight against overwhelming odds from which survival cannot be expected. We will do what damage we can.”With these words, Lieutenant Commander Robert W. Copeland addressed the crew of the destroyer escort USS Samuel B. Roberts on the morning of October 25, 1944, off the Philippine Island of Samar. On the horizon loomed the mightiest ships of the Japanese navy, a massive fleet that ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobooks

  • Death Traps

    The Survival of an American Armored Division in World War II

    by Belton Y. Cooper ...
    “An important contribution to the history of World War II . . . I have never before been able to learn so much about maintenance methods of an armored division, with precise details that underline the importance of the work, along with descriptions of how the job was done.”—Russell F. Weigley, author of Eisenhower’s Lieutenants“Cooper saw more of the war than most junior officers, and he writes ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Grey Wolf, Grey Sea

    Aboard the German Submarine U-124 in World War II

    by E. B. Gasaway ...
    The inside story of life aboard the deadly Nazi U-Boat that sank forty-nine ships.The history of one of World War II's most successful submarines, U-124, is chronicled in Grey Wolf, Grey Sea, from its few defeats to a legion of victories. Kapitanleutnant Jochen Mohr commanded his German submarine and navigated it through the treacherous waters of one of the most destructive, savage wars the world ... Read more

    $11.59 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • From F-4 Phantom to A-10 Warthog

    Memoirs of a Cold War Fighter Pilot

    by Steven K. Ladd, Steve Ladd ...
    This behind-the-scenes account of a USAF career is "an absorbing read, written with the classic humor fighter pilots seem to have" ( Flight Line Book Review).From Baron von Richthofen to Robin Olds, the mystique of the fighter pilot endures. The skill, cunning, and bravery that characterizes this distinctive band of brothers is well known, but there are other dimensions to those who take to the ... Read more

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  • The Crew

    The Story of a Lancaster Bomber Crew

    by David Price ...
    A moving tribute to the sacrifice and bravery of the fliers of RAF Bomber Command.******************************The Crew, based on interviews with Ken Cook, the crew's sole surviving member, recounts the wartime exploits of the members of an Avro Lancaster crew between 1942 and the war's end. Gloucestershire-born bomb aimer Ken Cook, hard-bitten Australian pilot Jim Comans, Navigator Don Bowes, ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Taking Fire

    The True Story of a Decorated Chopper Pilot

    by Ron Alexander, Charles W. Sasser ...
    The incredible memoir by one of the most decorated chopper pilots to emerge from the Vietnam War."Some of the best action writing in the field . . . Electrifying." — New York Times –bestselling author W. E. B. GriffinNicknamed "Mini-Man" for his diminutive stature, a mere five-foot-three and 125 pounds in his flight boots, chopper pilot Ron Alexander proved to be a giant in the eyes of the men he ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Silent Deep

    The Royal Navy Submarine Service Since 1945

    by James Jinks, Peter Hennessy ...
    'The Ministry of Defence does not comment upon submarine operations' is the standard response of officialdom to enquiries about the most secretive and mysterious of Britain's armed forces, the Royal Navy Submarine Service. Written with unprecedented co-operation from the Service itself and privileged access to documents and personnel, The Silent Deep is the first authoritative history of the ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • The First and The Last by Adolf Galland

    by Adolf Galland ...
    Adolf "Dolfo" Joseph Ferdinand Galland (1912 -1996) was a German Luftwaffe General and one of the greatest flying aces of World War II. He flew 705 combat missions, and fought on the Western and the Defence of the Reich fronts. On four occasions he survived being shot down, and he was credited with an astonishing 104 aerial victories, all of them against the Western Allies. He is a legend of air ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Wolf Pack: The U-Boats at War

    by Bob Carruthers ...
    "Once you heard that pinging sound you knew they had got to you, then the depth charges came. Terrible, just terrible." Kurt Wehling, u-boat survivor The steel coffins was the name given to the U-boats of the Kriegsmarine by their own crews. Their fatalistic view of the war was certainly justified; it is estimated that seventy-five per cent of the 39,000 men who sailed in the U-boat fleet paid the ... Read more

    $2.99 USD