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  • Bikini Atoll

    Shipwrecks of the Nuclear Tests

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    A detailed exploration of Bikini Atoll’s World War II shipwrecks and the effects of Operation Crossroads nuclear tests.The Empire of Japan formally surrendered to the Allies on 2 September 1945, following the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. While the fighting had ended, a new weapon had been unleashed onto the world stage that nations rushed frantically to develop and ... Read more

    $26.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Pearl Harbor's Revenge

    How the Devastated U.S. Battleships Returned to War

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    "...informative and detailed with some interesting and little-known anecdotes as well." — National Maritime Historical Society.Early on Sunday, 7 December 1941, Japanese carrier-borne aircraft launched a surprise attack against the US Pacific Fleet based at Pearl Harbor. It was a date that President Roosevelt declared "will live in infamy". During the strike, Japanese planes attacked the seven US ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Into the Abyss

    Diving to Adventure in the Liquid World

    by Rod MacDonald ...
    Into the Abyss, the first volume in The Diving Trilogy, is a fascinating collection of true life diving adventures from Rod’s long and varied diving career. It follows his progression from novice diver in the 1980s through the dangers of the deep air diving era and on to trimix diving in the 1990s where divers began to use commercial mixed breathing gases as the sport of technical diving was born. ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • Great British Shipwrecks

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    For more than 30 years, internationally acclaimed wreck diver and best-selling author, Rod Macdonald, has surveyed and researched shipwrecks around the world. His books such as Dive Scapa Flow and The Darkness Below are household names in the diving world. In Great British Shipwrecks Rod uses his encyclopaedic knowledge and an intimate understanding of shipwrecks, gleaned from a lifetime’s diving, ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Darkness Below

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    From the best-selling author of four classic UK diving books, comes The Darkness Below - a collection of absorbing adventures gained from a lifetime in diving. As one of the UK's leading Technical Divers, Rod takes the reader on a spellbinding and gripping journey, from first beginnings as a novice scuba diver. Told in intimate detail with a beguiling sense of self-deprecating humour, he recounts ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The American Guerillas

    by Rod MacDonald ...
    From its pastoral opening to its concluding serenade, The American Guerillas treats the reader to exciting episodes of romance, police chases, individual confrontations, and military camaraderie. Yet, above all, it’s a story of lovers who must risk everything to solve a mystery if they are to have a chance at staying together.A love letter to the genre of magic realism, this book vividly ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Deeper into the Darkness

    by Rod MacDonald ...
    In Deeper into the Darkness Rod takes the reader diving to explore many more famous wrecks around the UK from the Great War. These include HMS Pathfinder and HMS Audacious – the first British battleship to be lost to enemy action in WWI. The wreck of HMS Hampshire on which Lord Kitchener perished on a secret mission to Russia in 1916 is visited along with HMS Vanguard, which blew up at anchor in ... Read more

    $13.09 USD

  • The Open Mike

    by Rod MacDonald ...
    Ever wonder what it would be like to give it all up and head to Greenwich Village to become a singer-songwriter? In Reo MacGregors eyes, his law degree represents a spiritual and aesthetic dead end. He leaves it all behind to follow his music to lower Manhattans answer to Pariss Rive Gauche. There, he enters the bohemian scene of The Open Mike, where a new generation of singer-songwriters meets to ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Dive Palau

    The Shipwrecks

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 – the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau. He uses his intimate knowledge of shipwrecks to reveal in glorious detail each of the 20 major Japanese WWII shipwrecks lying at the bottom of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dive Truk Lagoon

    The Japanese WWII Pacific Shipwrecks

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    Truk Lagoon is quite simply the greatest wreck diving location in the world. Scores of virtually intact large WWII wrecks filled with cargoes of tanks, trucks, artillery, beach mines, shells and aircraft rest in the crystal clear waters of the Lagoon – each a man-made reef teeming with life. Truk was the main forward anchorage for the Japanese Imperial Navy and merchant fleet during the early days ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Dive Scapa Flow

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    Dive Scapa Flow has been THE definitive guide to diving the fabled wrecks of Scapa Flow, one of the world’s greatest wreck diving locations. This completely re-written and updated centenary edition is produced to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the scuttle of the 74 warships of the interned German High Seas Fleet at Scapa Flow on 21st June 1919 – the greatest act of maritime suicide the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Force Z Shipwrecks of the South China Sea

    HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    The tragedy of the loss in 1941 of two Royal Navy capital ships, HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Repulse, the core of Churchill’s deterrent Force Z, stunned the world. Churchill had hoped that sending a small powerful squadron of ships to Singapore would deter a threatened Japanese invasion of Malaya and Thailand. He was to be proved tragically wrong. Denuded of aircraft cover, Force Z was left ... Read more

    $13.09 USD