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  • The Rickover Effect The Rickover Effect
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    The Rickover Effect

    As Technical Director, Rockwell worked alongside the legendary Admiral Rickover for the first 15 years, creating the nuclear navy, then the world s first commercial atomic power station. Rickover was both admired and hated as he forcibly reformed both...
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  • Nella, The Heart Of The Army Nella, The Heart Of The Army
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    Nella, The Heart Of The Army

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Campaigning In The Philippines Campaigning In The Philippines
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    Campaigning In The Philippines

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Diego Garcia Diego Garcia
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    Diego Garcia

    Diego Garcia is about the Navy's need for secure communications in the Indian Ocean area, and who and how this need was fulfilled. The establishment of a classified radio station on the island of Diego Garcia in the Chagos Archipelago precipitated...
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  • May Pole Possibilities May Pole Possibilities
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    May Pole Possibilities

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Campaign Of Santiago De Cuba V2 (1907) The Campaign Of Santiago De Cuba V2 (1907)
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    The Campaign Of Santiago De Cuba V2 (1907)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Under The Ocean To The South Pole Under The Ocean To The South Pole
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    Under The Ocean To The South Pole

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • A Grand Army Man A Grand Army Man
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    A Grand Army Man

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • War, Economy and the Military Mind War, Economy and the Military Mind
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    War, Economy and the Military Mind

    Originally published in 1976, this book explores the relationship between European society and the military institutions it fostered from 1815-1918. In the period from the fall of Napoleonic imperialism to the outbreak of the First World War armies and...
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  • Horatio Nelson And The Naval Supremacy Of England (1893) Horatio Nelson And The Naval Supremacy Of England (1893)
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    Horatio Nelson And The Naval Supremacy Of England (1893)

    Horatio Nelson And The Naval Supremacy Of England (1893) is a book written by W. Clark Russell that chronicles the life and achievements of Horatio Nelson, one of England's greatest naval heroes. The book provides a detailed account of Nelson's naval...
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  • The Old Lieutenant And His Son (1876) The Old Lieutenant And His Son (1876)
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    The Old Lieutenant And His Son (1876)

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Battle Of New Orleans The Battle Of New Orleans
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    The Battle Of New Orleans

    The Battle of New Orleans, written by Zachariah F. Smith in 1904, is a historical account of the conflict between the Americans and the British in the early 19th century. The book covers the events leading up to the battle, including previous engagements...
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  • McDowell And Tyler In The Campaign Of Bull Run, 1861 McDowell And Tyler In The Campaign Of Bull Run, 1861
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    McDowell And Tyler In The Campaign Of Bull Run, 1861

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • A Fair Answer To The Confederate Appeal At Richmond A Fair Answer To The Confederate Appeal At Richmond
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    A Fair Answer To The Confederate Appeal At Richmond

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Campaigning With The Sixth Maine Campaigning With The Sixth Maine
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    Campaigning With The Sixth Maine

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Young Chaplain The Young Chaplain
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    The Young Chaplain

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Colonel Washington Colonel Washington
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    Colonel Washington

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Farragut And Other Great Commanders Farragut And Other Great Commanders
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    Farragut And Other Great Commanders

    ""Farragut And Other Great Commanders: A Series Of Naval Biographies"" is a book written by W. H. Davenport Adams that explores the lives and accomplishments of some of the greatest naval commanders in history. The book features biographical sketches of...
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  • The Great Revolution Of 1840 The Great Revolution Of 1840
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    The Great Revolution Of 1840

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Husks Husks
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    Husks

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • Stephen Moylan Stephen Moylan
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    Stephen Moylan

    This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...
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  • The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49 The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49
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    The Royal Navy and Anti-Submarine Warfare, 1917-49

    An essential new account of how anti-submarine warfare is conducted, with a focus on both historic and present-day operations.  This new book shows how until 1944 U-boats operated as submersible torpedo craft which relied...
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  • Boys at Sea Boys at Sea
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    Boys at Sea

    Boys at Sea is a study of homoerotic life in the Royal Navy during the age of sail. It deals not only with sex among ordinary crewmen, but reveals that the most consistent feature of prosecutions for sodomy and indecency involved officers forcing their...
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    Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties
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    Shipwrecks of the Roaring Forties

    The Shipwrecks of the Roaring 40s project was funded by the Australian Research Council to investigate some of the earliest and most important shipwrecks in Western Australia, including the four Dutch East Indiamen wrecked in the 17th and 18th centuries...
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    World War Two at Sea
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    World War Two at Sea

    As soon as war broke out in September 1939, the conflict at sea began. It raged without respite until the unconditional surrender of Germany and Japan just under six years later. World War Two at Sea highlights the key moments in this absorbing story,...
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    False Flags False Flags
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    False Flags

    Now available in paperback, False Flags tells the epic story of German raider voyages to the South Seas during the early years of World War II. In 1940 the raiders Orion, Komet, Pinguin and Kormoran left Germany and waged a ‘pirate war’ in the South Seas...
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    Fat Leonard
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    Fat Leonard

    #1 New York Times bestselling author Craig Whitlock’s masterful account of one of the biggest public corruption scandals in American history—exposing how a charismatic Malaysian defense contractor bribed scores of high-ranking military officers,...
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    Wonders in the Deep
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    Wonders in the Deep

    An awe-inspiring deep-dive into the treasures found on the sea floor and what they reveal about our past.A shipwreck is a time capsule. When a maritime archaeologist picks up an item from the seabed, there is a direct connection with history...
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    Sailing the Graveyard Sea
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    Sailing the Graveyard Sea

    A “compelling” (The Wall Street Journal) account of the only mutiny in the history of the United States Navy—a little-known but once notorious event that cost three young men their lives—part murder mystery, part courtroom drama, and as propulsive and...
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    Northern Lights
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    Northern Lights

    Surprisingly, the remarkable story of the Scottish role in the discovery of the Northwest Passage a long desired trade route connecting the Atlantic and Pacific has not received a great deal of attention. This book charts the extensive contribution to...
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    The Pirates' Code
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    The Pirates' Code

    Pirates have long captured peoples' imaginations with images of cutlass-wielding swashbucklers, eye-patches and buried treasure. But what was life really like on a pirate ship? Piracy was a risky, sometimes deadly occupation, and strict orders...
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  • Lustre
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    Lustre

    The raw, alluring beauty of the pearl and the stories of those who collected it form a fascinating part of Australia's national heritage. The Aboriginal trade and cultural significance of the magnificent Pinctada pearl shell had been well established...
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    In Search of Fish and Fortune
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    In Search of Fish and Fortune

    Australia's extensive coastline has a rich and diverse maritime history. In Search of Fish and Fortune celebrates the history of fishing and pearling as some of the first commercial trades established following European settlement on the western...
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  • The Grand Scuttle
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    The Grand Scuttle

    At Scapa Flow on 21 June 1919, there occurred an event unique in naval history. The German High Seas Fleet, one of the most formidable ever built was deliberately sent to the bottom of the sea at the British Grand Fleet's principal anchorage at Orkney by...
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    Where Light in Darkness Lies
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    Where Light in Darkness Lies

    Suspended between sea and sky, battered by the waves and the wind, lighthouses mark the battlelines between the elements. They guard the boundaries between the solid human world and the primordial chaos of the waters; between stability and instability;...
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  • Boatlines
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    Boatlines

    People are drawn to the harbours and boats of Scotland whether they have a seafaring background or not. Why do boats take on different shapes as you follow the complex shorelines of islands and mainland? And why do the sails they carry appear to be so...
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    Vast Expanses
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    Vast Expanses

    Vast Expanses is a cultural, environmental and geopolitical history that examines the relationship between humans and oceans, reaching back across geological and evolutionary time and exploring different cultures around the globe.Our ancient connections...
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