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Admirals Admirals Drama Admirals Fiction Admirals Great Britain Biography Admirals United States Biography Grafton, Jake (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 18th century Leahy, William D Nimitz, Chester W. (Chester William) 1885-1966 United States. Navy BiographySummary: As the SSRN Seaview's ongoing mission continues, her crew boldly defends the free world from the enemies of mankind, battling sinister foreign powers, deadly sea creatures, deranged scientists bent on world domination, and the immiment threat of nuclear doomsday.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2007
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VOYO'Brien, Phillips Payson
Summary: "The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 LEAHY, WILLIAM D OBRSummary: The SSRN Seaview, the world's most technologically advanced submarine, is back and more powerful than ever! Join Admiral Nelson, Captain Crane, and the rest of the crew as they save mankind from enemies of uncharted waters.
Format: moving image
Publisher / Publication Date: Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment 2006
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VOYSummary: Join Admiral Nelson, Captain Crane, and the rest of the crew aboard the Seaview, the Earth's most powerful nuclear submarine. Dive deep into the unknown as the crew battles rampaging gorillas and diabolical puppet masters to time-travelling androids and interplanetary kidnappings.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment 2009
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD TV VOYSummary: This episode of the U.S. Army’s The Big Picture television series follows the life and career of Admiral Chester Nimitz, one of the greatest Navy commanders in U.S. history. Raised on the plains of Texas, Nimitz had never seen an ocean when he entered the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, at the beginning of the 20th century. Yet, 40 years later he rescued the Pacific from the tyranny of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2008
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Borneman, Walter R.
Summary: Evaluates the pivotal contributions of history's only five-star admirals and how their triumphs in World War II rendered the United States the world's dominant sea power.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 BORCoonts, Stephen
Summary: When the U.S.S. America, the latest and most intricate nuclear submarine, is stolen, Admiral Jake Grafton investigates and soon learns that whoever is masterminding this operation means business when missiles are launched.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Press 2001
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1 available in Adult, Call number: FIC COOHough, Richard Alexander
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Publisher / Publication Date: E. P. Dutton 1973
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 910.4 HOUSugden, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 2004
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 SUGDuffy, James P.
Summary: Recently discovered primary source material sheds new light on Farragut's life and times. The first full admiral in American naval history, he was small in stature and almost sixty years old at the outbreak of the Civil War. Yet Farragut possessed enormous courage and stamina. He led by example and became an inspiration to the entire nation. Thoroughly researched and compellingly written,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Wiley 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.75 DUFLayton, Edwin T.
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Publisher / Publication Date: W. Morrow 1985
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5426 LAYLutz, Norma Jean.
Summary: A biography of the well-known naval leader, John Paul Jones, from his birth in Scotland through his participation in the American Revolution to his death in Paris at the age of forty-five.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Chelsea House Publishers 1999
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB JONES LUTBreuer, William B.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Presidio 1989
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 BULKELEY, JOHN BREHarris, Brayton
Summary: A portrait of a World War II admiral traces his pivotal role in commanding all U.S. and Allied air, land, and sea forces in the Pacific after the attack on Pearl Harbor.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 NIMITZ, CHESTER HARKent, Alexander.
Summary: As captain of His Majesty's frigate Unrivalled of forty-six guns, Adam Bolitho is required to assist the senior officer of the patrolling squadron. But all efforts of the patrols to curb a flourishing trade in human life are hampered by unsuitable ships, and by the belligerence of the Dey of Algiers, which threatens to ignite a full-scale war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Heinemann 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC KENO'Brian, Patrick
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Publisher / Publication Date: W.W. Norton 2004
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC OBRPersico, Joseph E.
Summary: Explains how Franklin D. Roosevelt assumed the role of a hands-on wartime leader, discussing his contributions to military strategy and analyzing how his decisions may have helped end or prolonged the war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ROOSEVELT, FRANKLIN D PERStavridis, James
Summary: Stavridis offers lessons of leadership and character contained in the lives and careers of history's most significant naval commanders. Spanning 2,500 years from ancient Greece to the twenty-first century, the tales of these ten admirals offer up a collection of the greatest imaginable sea stories. None of the admirals in this volume were perfect, and some were deeply flawed. But important...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 STASummary: The legend of the invincible fleet begins! Set five years before the epic battle depicted in The Admiral: Roaring Currents, Hansan: Rising Dragon is based on the true historical naval engagement, Battle of Hansan Island. In July 1592, admiral Yi Sun-sin and his Korean naval fleet face off against invading Japanese naval warships. Falling into crisis, the admiral must use his secret weapon to...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Well Go USA Entertainment 2022
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1 available in Foreign DVDs, Call number: DVD FOREIGN HANCoonts, Stephen
Summary: Jake Grafton is back, and is sent to Hong Kong to find out how deeply the U.S. consul-general, Tiger Cole, is embedded in a dangerous plan to overthrow the Chinese regime. Hong Kong is a powder keg ready to explode, with a political murder and the Chinese government's closure of a foreign bank as its fuse. Martin's Press.
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Publisher / Publication Date: St. Martin's Paperbacks 2001
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC COOFox, Stephen R.
Summary: Follows the distinguished military career of Confederate sea captain Raphael Semmes, commander of the CSS Alabama, following his wartime exploits as he became a cornerstone of the Confederate Navy, until the Alabama was sunk at Cherbourg, France, in 1864.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Alfred A. Knopf 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 FOXMoon, Elizabeth
Summary: "As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a ship full of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, the secrets she and her makeshift crew uncovered were ones someone was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been uncovered, but much of the organization behind it still lurks in the shadows. And it is up to the intrepid Ky to force...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Del Rey 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC MOOShaara, Jeff
Summary: Spring 1942. The United States is reeling from the blow inflicted at Pearl Harbor, but is determined to turn the tide. The key comes from Commander Joe Rochefort, a little known "code breaker" who cracks the Japanese military encryption. Admiral Chester Nimitz will know precisely what the Japanese are planning. On the Japanese side, Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto's key subordinates are Admiral...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ballantine Books 2021
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1 available in New Fiction, Call number: FIC SHACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC SHASummary: Did China discover America? An amateur historian and former submarine commander in the British Navy, Gavin Menzies poses an argument that could change the way we perceive global history forever - that Chinese admirals discovered America and that ancient Chinese junks were the first to circle the earth. 1421: The Year China Discovered America?, a program based on Menzies best-selling book,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Films Media Group 2004