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1) Unrestricted warfare: how a new breed of officers led the submarine force to victory in World War II
Author
Publisher
Castle Books
Pub. Date
2006, c2000
Physical Desc
x, 310 p. : ill., map ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Unrestricted Warfare reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese archives, and the testimony of surviving veterans, James DeRose has written a fascinating account of the men and vessels responsible for the only successful...
2) Betrayal
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Physical Desc
352 pages : maps ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Thomas Kydd's ship, part of a makeship fleet from South Africa under Commodore Home Popham, invades Buenos Aires in hopes of a treasure of silver, only to find the local population, instead of rising against the Spanish, uniting against them.
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
Language
English
Description
On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
"The Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the offensive and appoints a host of new destroyer commanders, including a wild-card named Harmon Wolf. An American Indian from a Minnesota reservation, Wolf has never fit in with the traditional Navy officer corps. But under Halsey, Wolf's aggressive...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
1990
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
284 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
In The Letter of Marque, Jack is once again aboard his beloved Surprise but stripped of his post captaincy for a crime he did not commit. Bought by Stephen, the Surprise has become a privateer. Sailing into French waters, the two concoct a desperate mission which, if successful, may redeem Aubrey from his state of disgrace. A nighttime battle with an unusual climax, a jewel of great value and Stephen's fondness for opium make this segment of O'Brian's...
Author
Series
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Co
Pub. Date
1991
Physical Desc
315 pages ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
When last seen, Jack and Stephen had been shipwrecked on a desert island in the glittering South China Sea. The Nutmeg of Consolation opens as the castaways fashion a makeshift vessel from the wreckage, only to have it destroyed in a fiery attack by Malay pirates. Only the wondrous ingenuity of Stephen, along with the unexpected appearance of one of Jack's oldest allies, leads them to escape-and to dubious safety in a penal colony at New South Wales....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Serving aboard the Allied destroyer USS Malloy, Executive Officer Connie Miles discovers that her much-admired captain is losing his mind under the pressure of unrelenting Japanese suicide bomber attacks.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
303 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"From two former military officers and award-winning authors, a chillingly authentic, geopolitical thriller that imagines a naval clash between the US and China in the South China Sea in 2034 -- and the path from there to a nightmarish global conflagration. On March 12, 2034, US Navy Commodore Sarah Hunt is on the bridge of her flagship, the guided missile destroyer USS John Paul Jones conducting a routine freedom of navigation patrol in the South...
15) Beat to quarters
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 1
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1985], c1966
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.8 - AR Pts: 14
Physical Desc
324 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2013
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
Hearing rumors of a formidable Japanese battleship capable of adversely shifting power in World War II, Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond is charged with leading the first American submarine into the Inland Sea to stop the seemingly invincible ship.
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 10
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1998?], c1950
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.5 - AR Pts: 19
Physical Desc
394 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
Only twenty-seven years old, Horatio Hornblower has distinguished himself as a capable and intrepid officer in the Royal Navy. On a reconnaissance mission with the Hotspur, a three-masted frigate under his command, Hornblower and his crew narrowly avoid capture by their French adversaries, but the danger is not over. In the meantime, misgivings about his recent marriage also weigh heavily on the young officer's mind. In this 10th novel of the Hornblower...
18) Invasion
Author
Series
Publisher
McBooks Press, Inc
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
320 pages ; 21 cm.
Language
English
Description
Rumors fly of Napoleon's planned invasion of England, and British naval commander Thomas Kydd is sent to liaise with American inventor, Robert Fulton, who has created "infernal machines" that can wreak mass destruction from a distance. Fulton believes that his inventions, namely the submarine and torpedo, will win the day for the power that possesses them, and Kydd must help him develop the devices. Despite his own scruples, believing that standing...
Author
Series
Hornblower volume 8
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
1953, c1981
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.3 - AR Pts: 17
Physical Desc
342 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Description
In the wake of a humbling incident aboard a canal boat in the Cotswolds, young Captain Horatio Hornblower arrives in London to take command of the Atropos, a 22-gun sloop barely large enough to require a captain. Her first assignment under Hornblower's command is as flagship for the funeral procession of Lord Nelson.
Soon Atropos is part of the Mediterranean Fleet's harassment of Napoleon, recovering treasure that lies deep in Turkish waters and...