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  • The Capture of U-505

    The US Navy's controversial Enigma raid, Atlantic Ocean 1944

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    Series Book 58 - Raid
    U-505 was the first enemy warship the US Navy captured at sea since 1812. This is a new account of how Captain Gallery planned and executed the raid on his own initiative, and how his success almost endangered the war against the U-boats.On June 4, 1944 a US Navy antisubmarine task group in the Atlantic captured an enemy U-boat on the high seas. It was not the first time the Allies had taken a ... Read more

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  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid.Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Read more

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  • Decatur’s Bold and Daring Act

    The Philadelphia in Tripoli 1804

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 22 - Raid
    On a dark night in 1804, Lt. Stephen Decatur and a team of hand-picked men, slipped into Tripoli harbor in a small boat.Their target was the USS Philadelphia. Captured by the Barbary pirates four months previously, the Philadelphia had been refitted to fight against her former masters. Decatur's mission was to either recapture the ship, or failing that, burn her to the waterline.This book recounts ... Read more

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  • Roughshod Through Dixie

    Grierson’s Raid 1863

    by Mark Lardas ...
    Series Book 12 - Raid
    On April 17, 1863 Benjamin Grierson led a force of 1,700 Union cavalrymen across enemy lines into Confederate-held Tennessee in a bold diversionary raid. Over the next seventeen days, Grierson's horsemen caused havoc by destroying railroad lines, attacking outposts, burning military stores and fighting numerous small actions, before breaking back through the lines at Baton Rouge. The raid was a ... Read more

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  • Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates

    The Forgotten War That Changed American History

    “Another blockbuster! Thomas Jefferson and the Tripoli Pirates reads like an edge-of-your-seat, page-turning thriller. You will love this book and also wonder why so few people know this story. No one captures the danger, intrigue, and drama of the American Revolution and its aftermath like Brian Kilmeade and Don Yaeger.” —Brad ThorThis is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation ... Read more

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  • The Fleet at Flood Tide

    America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945

    NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The extraordinary true story of the World War II air, land, and sea campaign that brought the U.S. Navy to the apex of its strength and marked the rise of the United States as a global superpower, from the acclaimed author of The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors—with original maps and more than 120 dramatic photographs“A masterful, fresh account of the latter days of ... Read more

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  • Battle of Guadalcanal (True Combat)

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  • The Shores of Tripoli

    Lieutenant Putnam and the Barbary Pirates

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    The first novel in award-winning historian James L. Haley’s brilliant adventure series featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise.It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, ... Read more

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  • Islands of Destiny

    The Solomons Campaign and the Eclipse of the Rising Sun

    by John Prados ...
    The Battle of Midway is traditionally held as the point when Allied forces gained advantage over the Japanese. In Islands of Destiny, acclaimed historian and military intelligence expert John Prados points out that the Japanese forces quickly regained strength after Midway and continued their assault undaunted.Taking this surprising fact as the start of his inquiry, he began to investigate how and ... Read more

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  • Pirates of the Chesapeake Bay

    From the Colonial Era to the Oyster Wars

    "An epic history of piracy . . . Goodall explores the role of these legendary rebels and describes the fine line between piracy and privateering." — WYPRThe story of Chesapeake pirates and patriots begins with a land dispute and ends with the untimely death of an oyster dredger at the hands of the Maryland Oyster Navy.From the golden age of piracy to Confederate privateers and oyster pirates, the ... Read more

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  • Imperial Japanese Navy Battleships 1941-45

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    The Imperial Japanese Navy of World War II surpassed the Allied and Axis fleets in innovation and technology.This illustrated guide covers the 12 Japanese battleships that saw service between 1941 and 1945, including the mighty Yamato. Each class is considered in light of its design and construction, its armament and wartime modifications. Mark Stille uses primary sources and dramatic photographs ... Read more

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