The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and Ropework
 great book: This is an excellent resource book and we will use it a lot.... This book should be owned by every sailor: A great book chock full of interesting ideas to make your boat more seamanlike. The definative rope working book. The Arts of the [... more]
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Ship Models: How to Build Them
Excellent primer of ship modeling: Charles Davis is the old grandfather of ship modeling and maritime history. Though much of his work has been since superseded by more recent research, much is still worthwhile today. "Ship Models and How to Build [... more]
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Hostile Waters
Amazon.com Review: During the Cold War, Soviet nuclear submarines tirelessly patrolled the Atlantic. Their missiles took aim at Washington, New York, and other major American cities. But they were also fairly low-tech contraptions, at least in comparison [... more]
$6.99
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Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American ...
Amazon.com Review: Little is known--and less has been published--about American submarine espionage during the Cold War. These submerged sentinels silently monitored the Soviet Union's harbors, shadowed its subs, watched its missile tests, eavesdropped [... more]
$7.99
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The Terrible Hours
Amazon.com Review: May 23, 1939. Television was being advertised for the first time to American consumers. Europe was on the brink of war as Hitler and Mussolini signed an alliance in Berlin. These were the days before sonar and before the discovery of [... more]
$6.99
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The Sea Hunters II
fascinating: Like the first Sea Hunters, it's the story of several shipwrecks. In each chapter, there's first a fictionalized historical account of the ship (or boat or plane or cannon) that demonstrates why it's important and describes how it was lost. [... more]
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Torpedo Junction: U-Boat War Off America's East Coast 1942
Excellent !: Reads like a Clancy thriller. I recommend this book along with Michael Gannon's "Operation Drumbeat" so one can understand the havoc wreaked by German U boats along the Eastern seaboard against totally unprepared and in many cases [... more]
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CONVOY: The Greatest U-boat Battle of the War (Cassell ...
ENGAGING AND WELL DOCUMENTED: Martin Middlebrook's World War II books are very much alike - and that is to say engaging, well-written, balanced, and original work. This book is a little slow at times, but that reflects the swings of the Atlantic War, [... more]
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Fortune Favors the Brave
Too Much Fluff: Really not what I expected. A lot of auto-biographical info on the author's military career and little about real-world missions. I read the first 150 pages and had to put it down. I guess I was expecting something along the lines of Col. [... more]
$6.99
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In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis ...
Amazon.com Review: On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis steamed into port at the Pacific island of Tinian, carrying a cargo that would end World War II: the uranium that would be dropped on Hiroshima just three weeks later. Having delivered [... more]
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Hunters & Shooters: An Oral History of the U.S. Navy ...
Great book to accompany SEAL military histories: The great thing about this oral history is that you get a personal feel for the characters as they talk about their experiences. The wide range of experiences are reflected in the wide range of [... more]
$8.99
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Combat Swimmer: Memoir of a Navy Seal
Three Soldiers' Stories: I've never served in the military, but I have great respect for those who follow that kind of life. I also have great interest in history, military strategy and tactics, and behavior in combat situations. I therefore checked out [... more]
$7.99
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