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Adventure fiction. Audiobooks. bibliography biography History. Juvenile works. Nonfiction. Sea stories.Lambert, Andrew D.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Collins 2005
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.4 LAMKeith, Phil
Summary: Two award-winning historians bring to life the greatest Civil War battle at sea, which was fought off the coast of France in 1864 and effectively ended the threat of the Confederacy on the high seas.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hanover Square Press 2022
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KEICrowley, Roger
Summary: A thrilling account of the brutal decades-long battle between Christendom and Islam for the soul of Europe. This struggle's brutal climax came between 1565 and 1571, seven years that witnessed a fight to the finish decided in a series of bloody set pieces: the epic siege of Malta, in which a tiny band of Christian defenders defied the might of the Ottoman army; the savage battle for Cyprus;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2008
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Publisher / Publication Date: J. Wiley 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359.009 MILMarsico, Katie
Summary: "Learn all about warships, from how they have influenced history to how the technology behind them has improved over time."--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Children's Press, an imprint of Scholastic Inc. 2016
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 623.8 MAROffley, Edward.
Summary: "On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Perseus Books Group 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5451 OFFCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars OffleySymonds, Craig L.
Summary: "Craig L. Symonds has established himself as one of the finest naval historians at work today. World War II at Sea represents his crowning achievement: a complete narrative of the naval war and all of its belligerents, on all of the world's oceans and seas, between 1939 and 1945. Opening with the 1930 London Conference, Symonds shows how any limitations on naval warfare would become irrelevant...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 940.54 SYMContents: v. 1. Actium, Battle of-- Ex Voto -- v. 2. Factory Ship-- Navies, great powers, Japan -- v. 3. Navies, great powers: Portugal-- shipyards -- v. 4. Siebe, Augustus-- Zheng He topical outline of entries, diractory of contributors, index.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Oxford University Press 2007
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4 available in Reference, Call number: R 623.8 OXF-1Call number: R 623.8 OXF-2
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Lavery, Brian.
Contents: Naval fact and naval fiction -- The world of the seaman -- The ships -- Officers -- The lower deck -- Techniques -- Life at sea -- Enemies and allies -- The navy in action -- The experience of war.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naval Institute Press 2003
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.27 LAVGough, Barry M.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Vanwell 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 971.034 GOULambdin, Dewey.
Summary: The 13th title in Lambdin's popular series finds salacious Royal Navy captain Alan Lewrie in hot water for "liberating" a dozen slaves from their Caribbean plantation and putting them to work on his ship, the HMS Proteus. Facing the prospect of court martial and a civil trial, Lewrie reluctantly agrees when Zachariah Twigg of the Foreign Office suggests a scheme that might save his career:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMSpector, Ronald H.
Summary: "At War at Sea is a fascinating account of the most important naval conflicts of the twentieth century. Beginning with a gripping narrative of one of the most decisive battles in history--the 1905 Battle of Tsushima between the Japanese and the Russians--and ending with the sophisticated missile engagements off the Falklands and in the Persian Gulf, naval historian Ronald Spector explores every...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 SPEStavridis, James
Summary: "From one of the most admired admirals of his generation -- and the only admiral to serve as Supreme Allied Commander at NATO -- comes a remarkable voyage through all of the world's most important bodies of water, providing the story of naval power as a driver of human history and a crucial element in our current geopolitical path. From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 STACopies Available at Fife Lake
1 available in Adult, Call number: 359 STALambdin, Dewey.
Summary: After peace between France and England abruptly ends, Captain Alan Lewrie must flee Paris, but soon he has a chance to seek revenge on his former French host in a stunning sea chase that will test him like no other challenge he has faced.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press 2010
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sutton Pub. 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5459 SHOHutchinson, Robert
Contents: The enemy within -- Rumours of war -- Ramparts of earth and manure -- The great and most fortunate Navy -- First sighting -- Action this day -- Firestorm -- Fleeing for home -- Shipwrecked upon an alien shore -- 'God be praised for all his works' -- The english armada -- Epilogue -- Appendix I: Order of battle of English fleet -- Appendix II: Order of battle of Spanish Fleet -- Chronology --...
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Publisher / Publication Date: St Martins Pr 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 942.05 HUTOrtzen, Len.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Galahad Bks. 1976
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 904.7 ORTHoehling, A. A. (Adolph A.)
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Publisher / Publication Date: Madison Books 1992
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 387.5 HOETillman, 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 TILDruett, Joan.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Simon & Schuster 2000
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 DRUPope, Dudley.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt 1998
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 359 POPLavery, Brian.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dorling Kindersley 2004
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Place a hold to request this item.Kilmeade, Brian
Summary: This is the little-known story of how a newly independent nation was challenged by four Muslim powers and what happened when America's third president decided to stand up to intimidation. When Thomas Jefferson became president in 1801, America faced a crisis. The new nation was deeply in debt and needed its economy to grow quickly, but its merchant ships were under attack. Pirates from North...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sentinel 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 KILCopies Available at Fife Lake
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist US KilmeadeHull, Robert
Summary: Examines the legacy of ancient Greece through its seafaring adventures, including war on land and sea, trade, and the proliferation of Greek colonies throughout the Mediterranean region.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Franklin Watts 1999