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Author
Publisher
Escape Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
A submarine, a one-night-stand, and a forbidden workplace romance ... Kurt Garland is at a crossroads: sign for another two years as a submariner or leave and rejoin civilian life. With only weeks to make up his mind, he's torn between the financial stability and mateship of life in the Navy, and the freedom and balance outside of the military. With big life decisions on the line, Kurt needs space to think, so a one-night-stand with a sexy stranger...
Author
Publisher
The History Press
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
A detailed history of the submarine, from the first man-powered submersibles to the deep sea exploration and military crafts of todayPioneer submariners built astonishing contraptions which made perilous voyages or sank like stones. Some were driven by muscle-power or steam engines with chimneys. Others had wheels with which to trundle along the seabed. This book traces the history of early submarines and the colorful array of those who built and...
Author
Publisher
Hanover Square Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
What's it like to spend three months without sunlight, sharing what little space you have with over a hundred fellow crewmen and more firepower than all the bombs dropped in World War II combined? This memoir reveals the funny, challenging, one-of-a-kind experience that is life on a nuclear submarine, for readers of Skyfaring, Endurance and Sea Stories.
Imagine a world without natural light, where you can barely stand up straight for fear of knocking...
Author
Publisher
Arcadia Publishing / Open Road Integrated Media
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
"A U.S. Navy submariner's account of his adventurous life in service beneath the waves. Beginning on a cattle ranch in Colorado, this memoir follows a young sailor on his voyage around the world. After enlisting in the U.S. Navy in 1960 and completing the Nuclear Power School program, Gary Penley embarks on a series of adventures-often at risk of his life-while serving on a submarine as a power plant operator. During his seven years with the navy,...
5) Submariner
Author
Publisher
Canelo Digital Publishing Ltd
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"Another epic Second World War adventure from the author of the Nicholas Everard naval thrillers. As captain of the submarine Ursa , Lieutenant Mike Nicholson's mission is to disrupt the flow of war supplies to Rommel 's Afrika Korps. Although Ursa is small, slow and often out-gunned, she succeeds, on her seventeenth Mediterranean cruise, in sinking a German tank-transporter. That triumph makes Mike top of the league - he has now sunk more tonnage...
Author
Publisher
Pen & Sword Books
Pub. Date
[2011]
Language
English
Description
During the Second World War over 250 Allied warships from a dozen navies were sent to the bottom by German U-boats. This ground-breaking study provides a detailed analysis of every sinking for which source material survives from both the Allied and the German sides, resulting in detailed treatment of the fate of 110 vessels, with the remainder summarised in an extensive appendix. Uniquely, each entry is built around a specialist translation of the...
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