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Aubrey, Jack (Fictitious character) Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 18th century Fiction Great Britain History, Naval 19th century Fiction History Maturin, Stephen (Fictitious character) Fiction Military operations, Naval American Pacific Ocean Ship captains Fiction Themis (Ship) Fiction World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, AmericanTillman, Barrett.
Summary: What defended the US after the attack on Pearl Harbor, defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, and is an essential tool in the fight against terror? Aircraft carriers.For seventy years, these ships remained a little understood cornerstone of American power. In his latest book, On Wave and Wing, Barrett Tillman sheds light on the history of these floating leviathans and offers a nuanced...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359 TILO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Captain Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin set sail for the South China Sea. At the barbaric court of Pulo Prabang, the stage is set for a duel of intelligence agents, pitting Stephen against the French envoys.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1995
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'BRToll, Ian W.
Summary: Twilight of the Gods is a riveting account of the harrowing last year of World War II in the Pacific, when the U.S. Navy won the largest naval battle in history; Douglas MacArthur made good his pledge to return to the Philippines; waves of kamikazes attacked the Allied fleets; the Japanese fought to the last man on one island after another; B-29 bombers burned down Japanese cities; and...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2020
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 940.54 TOLBradley, James
Summary: Analyzes the multinational conflicts that set the stage for World War II, the Chinese communist revolution, and the Korean War, documenting Theodore Roosevelt's 1905 diplomatic mission in the Pacific through which the United States forged ill-fated covert agreements.
Format: sound recording-nonmusical
Publisher / Publication Date: Hachette Audio 2009
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD 359.4 BRABiggins, John
Summary: "In the spring of 1915, a young Austro-Czech naval lieutenant Ottokar Prohaska finds himself posted to the minuscule Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Submarine Service in the Adriatic port of Pola. In some trepidation at first, because he has no experience whatever of submarines, his fears are soon set at rest when he discovers that nobody else has either: least of all his superiors. There...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2017
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1 available in Playaway, Call number: PA FIC BIGRussell, Sean
Summary: While on route to the Caribbean to meddle with French shipping to the colonies, Captain Charles Hayden must deal with two dilemmas when the HMS Themis first rescues a suspicious pair of Spanish castaways whose origins and agenda are suspect, and then stumbles across a crippled slave ship. Upon arriving at the Barbados station, he finds himself under the command of the impetuous and foolhardy...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2014
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSRussell, Sean.
Summary: Embarking on a mission to destroy a French frigate and gather intelligence during the height of the French Revolution, Charles Hayden of the HMS Themis discovers plans for an invasion of England before being captured by a French squadron.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 2013
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC RUSO'Brian, Patrick
Summary: Presents Jack Aubrey's life as he is put in debtor's prison, ultimately escapes, and heads to the East Indies asea again.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Recorded Books 1992
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1 available in Compact Disc Audio Book, Call number: CD FIC O'BRVincent, Lynn
Summary: Based on new primary sources and interviews with 108 survivors, Vincent and Vladic reveal the untold stories of the crew left adrift for five days in the Philippine Sea as they battled dehydration, sharks, insanity, and each other; the Army spy who shepherded the bomb aboard Indianapolis; the hidden history of the Top Secret ULTRA program that could have saved the ship; and the survivors'...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Findaway World, LLC 2018