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The Blockade and the Cruisers
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95This volume in The Navy in the Civil War series covers material relating to blockades and blockaders within the Capes of Virginia area. James Russell Soley was born in Roxbury, Massachusetts, 1 October, 1850. He was graduated at Harvard in 1870, became assistant professor of English in the United States naval academy in 1871, and in 1873 was placed... more...
The Atlantic Coast
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95In 1861, at the outbreak of the civil war, the author was executive officer of the North Atlantic blockading squadron. He participated in the two attacks on Fort Fisher in the winter of 1864-65, was commissioned captain in July 1866, and was on special and sea service until 11 December 1877, when he was made rear-admiral and was placed on the retired... more...
The Gulf and Inland Waters
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95Mahan was born at West Point, N.Y. He studied at Columbia University and graduated from the U.S. Naval Academy in 1859. During the Civil War (1861-1865), he served on blockade duty in the South Atlantic Ocean and the Gulf of Mexico. His first book, The Gulf and Inland Waters (1883), was a naval history of the war. more...
Cruise of the Alabama and the Sumter
Digital Scanning, Inc. 2001; US$ 4.95As commander in the Confederate Navy, Raphael Semmes decimated his Yankee opponents. As commander of the Sumter, he destroyed eighteen ships in six months (in 1861). In the next year, after taking command of the Alabama, he began the famous cruise during which he captured sixty-nine vessels and inflicted a devastating blow on the sea-carrying trade... more...
War at Sea in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance
Boydell & Brewer 2003; US$ 99.00In the Renaissance European states developed standing navies. They were the product of changes over the preceding centuries in politics, technology and thinking about sea power. The fourteen authors from Europe and North America trace the forms of war at sea during the Middle Ages and show how changes in the period served as sources for the golden... more...
Battleground Atlantic
Penguin Group US 2006; US$ 15.00In June, 1944, U.S. Navy warplanes sank a Japanese submarine called the I-52 in the Atlantic, an event of enormous strategic importance. For the I-52 was to return to Japan with the lethal ingredients of a doomsday weapon-the radiological bomb-which remained a government secret for years. The I-52 's resting place became public in 1995. Author... more...
A Tale of Two Subs
Grand Central Publishing 2008; US$ 9.99On November 19, 1943, the submarine USS Sculpin , under attack by the Japanese, slid below the waves for the last time in what would become one of the most remarkable stories in U.S. Naval history. Not only did several crewmembers survive the sinking - an extremely rare event in World War II submarine warfare - but several were aboard a Japanese aircraft... more...
Raising the Hunley
Random House Publishing Group 2007; US$ 17.00The history of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley is as astonishing as its disappearance. On February 17, 1864, after a legendary encounter with a Union battleship, the iron ?fish boat? vanished without a trace somewhere off the coast of South Carolina. For more than a century the fate of the Hunley remained one of the great unsolved mysteries... more...
A Time to Die
Crown Publishing Group 2007; US$ 13.95Ona quiet Saturday morning in August 2000, two explosions--one so massive it was detected by seismologists around the world--shot through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. Russia?s prized submarine, the Kursk, began her fatal plunge to the ocean floor. Award-winning journalist Robert Moore presents a riveting, brilliantly researched account... more...
Submarine: A Guided Tour Inside a Nuclear Warship
Penguin Group US 2003; US$ 7.99Only the author of The Hunt for Red October could capture the reality of life aboard a nuclear submarine. Only a writer of Clancy?s magnitude could obtain security clearance for information, diagrams, and photographs never before available to the public. Now, every civilian can enter this top secret world and experience the drama and excitement... more...









