The Death of the USS Thresher: The Story Behind History's Deadliest Submarine Disaster, Paperback - Norman Polmar

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Leader of the Pack recounts the incredible history of USS Batfish, a record-setting American World War II fleet submarine. Batfish entered the pant...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Bruce RuleThe US nuclear submarine THRESHER (SSN-593) was lost because standard compensation procedures to adjust for hull ...

Reducere. Now in paperback, revised and updated, the stirring and authoritative account of one of World War II's most highly decorated submarines Find 'Em, C...

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Description*Includes pictures *Includes accounts of the tragedy by survivors, witnesses and rescuers *Includes online resources and a bibliography ...

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The Dive is a thrilling narrative nonfiction in the tradition of The Perfect Storm and Apollo 13.Publisher: HarperCollins PublishersAuthor(s): Step...

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The year was 1925. Five years of Prohibition had seemingly accomplished little other than to foster a widespread belief that the unpopular edict wa...

Reducere. A Cold War disaster that took ninety-nine lives, and was denied for forty years. What really happened to the USS Scorpion? May 1968: An American su...

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Publisher: CaneloAuthor(s): John HarrisNumber of pages: 288Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 127 x 197 x 31Cover type: Paperback / softbackRedescop...

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From Ted Bundy to John Wayne Gacy and David Berkowitz, the 1970s were a time of notorious and brutal serial killers. Find out more about them, alon...

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Reducere. Author Mochitsura Hashimoto was one of the few Japanese submarine captains to survive. Shortly before the end of WW2 he inflicted the greatest sing...

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Reducere. The most tragic accident in aviation history is more than a story of the loss of 583 lives. As gripping as the event is here in its dramatic, rivet...

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First definitive account of the worst peacetime submarine disaster in Royal Naval history.