Category - History
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Benedict Arnold's Navy: The Ragtag Fleet That Lost the Battle of Lake Champlain but Won the American Revolution / Edition 1
HardcoverOriginal price $37.00Original price $37.00 - Original price $37.00Original price $37.00Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /An epic story of one man’s devotion to the American cause In October 1776, four years before Benedict Arnold’s treasonous attempt to hand control...
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Crash Dive: True Stories of Submarine Combat
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Edited by bestselling author Larry Bond, Crash Dive collects the best nonfiction writing on submarines, the near-silent killers of the deep and t...
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The Battle of Salamis: The Naval Encounter that Saved Greece -- and Western Civilization
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /On a late September day in 480 B.C., Greek warships faced an invading Persian armada in the narrow Salamis Straits in the most important naval ba...
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Death in the Baltic: The World War II Sinking of the Wilhelm Gustloff
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The worst maritime disaster ever occurred during World War II, when more than 9,000 German civilians drowned. It went unreported.January 1945: Th...
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Confederate Shipbuilding
HardcoverOriginal price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A classic on the Confederacy's failure to build a successful navy In Confederate Shipbuilding, William N. Still Jr. cogently demonstrates the rea...
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Breaking the Color Barrier: The U.S. Naval Academy's First Black Midshipmen and the Struggle for Racial Equality
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Winner of the 2006 Richard W. Leopold Prize from the Organization of American HistoriansWinner of the 2006 George Pendleton Prize from the Societ...
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Tin Can Sailor: Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /More than eight hundred sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those m...
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Attack at Dawn: Reliving the Battle of Narvik in World War II
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /On March 1, 1940, Adolf Hitler ordered the invasion of Norway. Having swept across Europe at a terrifying pace, the Nazi assault on Scandinavia w...
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PT 105
PaperbackOriginal price $23.95Original price $23.95 - Original price $23.95Original price $23.95Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Admittedly small and vulnerable, PT boats were, nevertheless, fast-the fastest craft on the water during World War II-and Dick Keresey's account ...
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Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
PaperbackOriginal price $11.98 - Original price $11.98Original price $11.98$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /In his excellent book explaining naval strategy, Julian S. Corbett examines sound maritime strategy. Crucially, he advances the view that navies ...
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Coast Guard Action In Vietnam: Stories of Those Who Served
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Well-crafted, this lively and engaging history will rejuvenate one's pride in the American military with its little-known details of the Coast Gu...
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The Longest Patrol: A U-Boat Gunner's War
PaperbackOriginal price $21.95Original price $21.95 - Original price $21.95Original price $21.95Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /Karl Baumann was born in the Ruhr Valley of Germany during the desperate and tumultuous years of the Great Depression. His pursuit of an occupati...
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The Port Chicago Mutiny: The Story of the Largest Mass Mutiny Trial in U.S. Naval History
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00Original price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00Current price $21.99$21.99 - $21.99Current price $21.99| /During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. Black seamen were required to l...
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Countdown to Pearl Harbor: The Twelve Days to the Attack
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /In this “riveting” (Los Angeles Times) account of the days leading up to the attack on Pearl Harbor, Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Steve Twom...
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Tsushima: Great Battles Series
HardcoverOriginal price $31.99Original price $31.99 - Original price $31.99Original price $31.99Current price $30.99$30.99 - $30.99Current price $30.99| /bThe Battle of Tsushima was the most decisive naval engagement in the century that elapsed since the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805./b Although thes...
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Admirals Under Fire: The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95Original price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9781682830895 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Texas Tech University Press Publication Date: 08-31-2021 Pages: 520 Product ...
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Historic Photos of United States Naval Academy
HardcoverOriginal price $37.99Original price $37.99 - Original price $37.99Original price $37.99Current price $35.99$35.99 - $35.99Current price $35.99| /With a proud tradition reaching back to its founding in 1845, the United States Naval Academy today pursues its role as the nation’s premier inst...
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U.S. Revenue Cutters of the Civil War
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /"Despite the seemingly never-ending torrent of books about the American Civil War, relatively little has been written about the role of the Unite...
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Great Pacific War: A History of the American-Japanese Campaign of 1931-33
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /This blow-by-blow fictional account of a war between the United States and Japan was a forerunner of actual events, written 16 years before the J...
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Sea of Thunder: Four Commanders and the Last Great Naval Campaign 1941-1945
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Sea of Thunder is a taut, fast-paced, suspenseful narrative of the Pacific War that culminates in the battle of Leyte Gulf, the greatest naval ba...
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All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99$22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years—what really happened to the USS Scorpion?May 1968: An American su...
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The U.S. Navy: A Concise History
HardcoverOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through ...
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Troubled Water: Race, Mutiny, and Bravery on the USS Kitty Hawk
PaperbackOriginal price $20.99Original price $20.99 - Original price $20.99Original price $20.99Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk—and the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history In 1972, the United States was embroiled in...
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Into Enemy Waters: A World War II Story of the Demolition Divers Who Became the Navy SEALS
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /With echoes of Unbroken; the derring-do and bravado of The Right Stuff; and the battle-forged camaraderie of Band of Brothers, this is the World ...
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