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Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2006
Language
English
Description
Mike Harmon's commando-quality retainers agree that their leader, code-named Ghost, is a peculiar one. An ex-Navy-SEAL, there is no stronghold he cannot penetrate, no target he can't take out. Now Harmon and his militia have been hired to rescue the daughter of a powerful political mover in America.
22) Unto the breach
Author
Publisher
Baen
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
The hero of 'Ghost', 'Kildar' and 'Choosers of the Slain', along with his company of elite mountain fighters, is sent on a mission to stop an advanced smallpox plague from being turned over to terrorists.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2017
Language
English
Description
'The Killing School' brings readers inside the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper Course - the gruelling 3-month training program that produces the world's deadliest snipers. As a SEAL sniper and combat veteran, Brandon Webb was tasked with revamping the U.S. Naval Special Warfare (SEAL) Scout/Sniper School, incorporating the latest advances in technology to create an entirely new course that continues to test even the best warriors. Here,...
Author
Language
English
Description
In the 114 years since its birth, the Royal Navy Submarine Service has stretched from the North Pole to the South Atlantic, from the Far East to the Barents Sea. The UK is girdled with the infrastructure required to support this vast enterprise; and the submarines of its Trident system form the sole basis of the UK's position as the world's reluctant nuclear power. Yet this is a subject that remains shrouded in secrecy. To this day, the Ministry of...
Author
Publisher
Adlard Coles Nautical
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Jerry Grayson is an ordinary man who chose an extraordinary career. At age 17 he became the youngest helicopter pilot to ever serve in the Royal Navy. By age 25 he was the most decorated peacetime naval pilot in history. For the Navy's Search and Rescue pilots, getting to work is both an adventure and an ordeal. Whether rescuing a wounded fighter pilot who has ditched in the sea, saving desperate survivors from a sinking ship, or picking up a grievously...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
HMS Conqueror, 5000 tons of nuclear-powered menace, was Britain's deadliest hunter-killer submarine. This book exposes the many secrets of the Conqueror's operations up to and beyond the Falkland Wars. It is a story of incredible courage and derring-do, of men who put their lives on the line and spent up to six months beneath the sea.
Author
Publisher
Sphere
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
Description
In June 2005, four US Navy SEALs left Afghanistan for the Pakistani border. Their mission was to capture or kill an Al Qaeda leader known to be in a Taliban stronghold surrounded by a small but heavily armed force. Less than 24 hours later, only one of those Navy SEALs was alive. This is the story of sole survivor Marcus Luttrell.
Author
Publisher
Seaforth
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
Description
This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the 17th century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end.
Author
Publisher
Quercus
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
This is the story of Bin Laden's relentless hunters and how they took down the terrorist mastermind. After talking to members of the SEAL team involved in the raid, Pfarrer shares never-before-revealed details of the historic raid and the men who planned and conducted it in an exclusive account of what happened during the mission.
34) I'll get by
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Formats
Description
Meggie Elliot is a young woman of above average intelligence. Living with her aunt and uncle in London at the outbreak of WWII, she's intent on going to university to pursue a career in law. In a burst of patriotism she joins the WRNS. She then meets young aristocrat Nicholas Cowan, who sweeps her off her feet. But is all as it seems?
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
In 1940, at the French port of Dunkirk, more than 300,000 trapped Allied troops were dramatically rescued from destruction at the hands of Nazi Germany by an extraordinary seaborne evacuation. The true history of the soldiers, sailors, airmen and civilians involved in the nine-day skirmish has passed into legend. Now, in this gift edition, the story Winston Churchill described as a 'miracle' is narrated by bestselling author Joshua Levine in its full,...
Author
Publisher
Faber
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Description
Edward Pellew, captain of the legendary Indefatigable, was quite simply the greatest frigate captain in the age of sail. An incomparable seaman, ferociously combative yet chivalrous, a master of the quarterdeck and an athlete of the tops, he was as quick to welcome a gallant foe into his cabin as to dive to the rescue of a man overboard.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
From the streets of Iraq to the successful rescue of Captain Richard Phillips from pirates in the Indian Ocean, operator Mark Owen of the US Naval Special Warfare Development Group - commonly known as SEAL Team Six - has been a part of some of the most memorable special operations in history, as well as countless missions that never made headlines. 'No Easy Day' puts readers inside the elite, handpicked 24-man team as they train for the most important...
40) Men-of-war
Author
Publisher
Clipper Audiobooks
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Out of print for many years, this is a brand new edition of the definitive companion to the acclaimed Aubrey-Maturin series of novels, written by the author himself. What was daily life in Nelson's navy really like, for everyone from the captain down to the rawest recruit? What did they eat? What songs did they sing? What was the schedule of watches? How were the officers and crew paid, and what was the division of prize-money? These questions and...
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