P.O.W.: A Sailor's Story, Paperback

"No one, from Stephen Ambrose to Steven Spielberg, can tell a better story than A Sailor's Story." ― Max Brooks, author of World War Z"What makes A...

In this military memoir and adventure story, the author recounts his seven years in the U.S. Navy in the 1960s, mostly aboard nuclear submarines. D...

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Lt. Benjamin Loring (1824-1902) lived the life of an everyman Civil War sailor. He commanded no armies and devised no grand strategies. Loring was ...

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Nick Ardley, an eccentric anachronism from a simpler age, sails his clinker sloop between Rochester and Richmond to look at a century of change. Th...

Reducere. DescriptionIn this firsthand account of life aboard the ships of the Great Lakes, Mark Thompson weaves together the threads of a story that relives...

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Reducere. Would you have sailed a 30-foot sailboat to the South Pacific before GPS navigation and accessible ocean weather forecasts existed? In 1976, after ...

Reducere. DescriptionIn 1787, the Royal Navy ship H.M.S. Bounty, captained by William Bligh, set sail for Tahiti in search of breadfruit plants. Soon after l...

DescriptionThis title is an exploration of a life at sea in the time of Captain Cook and Admiral Nelson, covering topics as wide-ranging as science...

Reducere. Elden Duane Rogers died on March 19, 1945, one of the eight hundred who perished on the aircraft carrier USS Franklin that day. It was his nineteen...

Reducere. DescriptionWilliam Grannetino served in the US navy during World War II. From the day he landed on Omaha Beach to the morning he sailed out of the ...

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Introducing key principles that influence the weather, this guide gives sailors the tools to forecast from observations and the available informati...

Learn how to bluff in the sailing club bar and onto sleek yachts and fast dinghies; with tips on what to do, what to wear and what to say. You may ...

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Reducere. The ship's logbook has been a maritime tradition since ancient times. It is used to document the voyages and movement of the vessel and events that...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCAuthor(s): Theo (News & Features Editor) StockerIllustration(s): 30-40 black and white cartoonsNumber of pages:...

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A unique portrait of the life and death of a writer who inspired a generation

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Reducere. In June of 1961, A. E. Hotchner visited a close friend in the psychiatric ward of St. Mary's Hospital. It would be the last time they spoke--three ...

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