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Beachhead Normandy
Potomac Books Inc. 2012; US$ 29.95An untold story of naval heroism at Normandy more...
Submarine Stories
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 21.95Culled from many never-before-published narratives and oral histories conducted under the auspices of the U.S. Naval Institute, Submarine Stories presents nearly five dozen first-person accounts from men who were involved with gasoline- and diesel-powered submarines during the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. The story of these boats, their technological... more...
Battle Line
Naval Institute Press 2013; US$ 34.95A portrait in words and photographs of the interwar Navy, this book examines the twenty-year period that saw the U.S. fleet shrink under the pressure of arms limitation treaties and government economy and then grow again to a world-class force. The authors trace the Navy's evolution from a fleet centered around slow battleships to one that deployed... more...
The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
Random House Publishing Group 2008; US$ 18.00BONUS: This edition includes an excerpt from James D. Hornfischer's Neptune's Inferno . ?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 ... more...
Carrier
Penguin Group US 1999; US$ 17.00They are floating cities with crews of thousands. They are the linchpins of any military strategy, for they provide what has become the key to every battle fought since World War I: air superiority. The mere presence of a U.S. naval carrier in a region is an automatic display of strength that sends a message no potential enemy can ignore. Now, Tom... more...
Marine
Penguin Group US 1996; US$ 18.00An in-depth look at the United States Marine Corps-in the New York Times bestselling tradition of Submarine, Armored Cav, and Fighter Wing Only the best of the best can be Marines. And only Tom Clancy can tell their story--the fascinating real-life facts more compelling than any fiction. Clancy presents a unique insider's look at the most hallowed... more...
Down to the Sea
HarperCollins 2009; US$ 12.99This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull"... more...
The United States Marine Corps: A Chronology, 1775 to the Present
ABC-CLIO 2011; US$ 85.00This comprehensive survey profiles one of history's greatest fighting forces, on land, sea, and air. more...
Deadly Seas
Random House of Canada 2011; US$ 27.00A brilliant work of naval history, Deadly Seas tells the dramatic story of the birth, life, and death of two wartime vessels, one Allied, the other Axis, and, through them, the larger story of the epic Battle of the Atlantic itself. From the Hardcover edition. more...
Empires of the Sea
Faber and Faber 2009; US$ 14.57A major success in hardback, this is one of the most gripping and exciting stories ever told of an epic period of international warfare. more...









