Karen Traviss
Karen Traviss is a former defense correspondent and TV and newspaper journalist. She has worked in public relations for the police and local government, and has served in the Royal Naval Auxiliary Service and the Territorial Army. The New York ... [... more]
Harper Collins |
Death in the Jungle
With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous ... [... more]
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Yachting's Golden Age
Ed Holm has been a photojournalist, a magazine and book editor, an art director, and an author and historian. He is a former officer in the U.S. Navy and a lieutenant commander (retired) in the U.S. Naval Reserve. He lives in Manheim, ... [... more]
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Hans Von Luck
Hans von Luck was born in 1911 in Flensburg, Germany, the son of a naval officer. Although he would have preferred to study law, he followed the path of duty and in 1929 entered the Reichswehr as a cadet officer. In 1939 his motorized unit was ... [... more]
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Andrew Cormack
The outbreak of World War I found the British Army's Royal Flying Corps with just over 200 fragile, unarmed reconnaissance aircraft, and a uniformed strength of just over 2,000 all ranks; the Royal Naval Air Service had some 50 seaplanes. By the ... [... more]
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Valerian Albanov
Valerian Albanov was born in 1881 in Voronezh, Russia, and graduated in 1904 from the Naval College of St. Petersburg. Despite his harrowing voyage aboard the Saint Anna, he continued going to sea until his death in 1919. Jon Krakauer is the ... [... more]
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British Battlecruisers 1914- 1918
British battlecruisers were not a "failed design" as is so often claimed, but a very successful and revolutionary one that was critical to, and instrumental in, Britain winning the naval war of 1914-18. This book contains previously untapped ... [... more]
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Jack Coombe
Jack D. Coombe is the author of , which was nominated for the Fletcher Pratt Award. He and his wife, Peg, live in Northbrook, Illinois. Gunsmoke Over the Atlantic First Naval Actions of the Civil War , the Civil War began when shots were fired on ... [... more]
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