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1) Peacemaker
Author
Series
Alan Craik novels volume 2
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
c2001
Physical Desc
406 p. ; 24 cm.
2) Private life
Author
Formats
Description
Margaret Mayfield needs to get married. In a fit of desperation, she weds an eccentric scientist. As her husband's obsessions with science take a darker turn on the eve of World War II, Margaret is forced to consider the life she has so carefully constructed.
3) Cuba
Author
Series
Publisher
Wheeler Pub
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
600 p. (large print) ; 24 cm.
4) Korea Strait
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 10
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
323 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Overseeing a major international naval exercise with the participation of several friendly nations, Commander Dan Lenson witnesses the unraveling of long-standing alliances that eventually leads to a world-shattering confrontation between North and South Korea.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Formats
Description
"The Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the offensive and appoints a host of new destroyer commanders, including a wild-card named Harmon Wolf. An American Indian from a Minnesota reservation, Wolf has never fit in with the traditional Navy officer corps. But under Halsey, Wolf's aggressive...
6) The cruiser
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 14
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Newly-promoted to captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East"--...
Author
Series
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
278 pages ; 25 cm
Description
"By the spring of 1945, the once mighty Japanese fleet has been virtually destroyed, leaving Japan open to invasion. The Japanese react by dispatching hundreds of suicide bombers against the Allied fleet surrounding Okinawa. By mid-May, the Allied fleet is losing a major ship a day to murderous swarms of kamikazes streaming out of Formosa and southern Japan. The radar picket line is the first defense and early warning against these hellish formations,...
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
384 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
At the opening of the War of 1812, the British control the most powerful navy on earth, and Americans are again victims of piracy. Bliven Putnam, late of the Battle of Tripoli, is dispatched to Charleston to outfit and take command of a new 20-gun brig, the USS Tempest. Later, aboard the Constitution, he sails into the furious early fighting of the war. Prowling the South Atlantic in the Tempest, Bliven takes prizes and disrupts British merchant shipping,...
Author
Series
Publisher
G.P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Description
"The first novel in a brilliant new series by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring young midshipman Bliven Putnam as he begins his naval service aboard the U.S.S. Enterprise. It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States...
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 15
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Physical Desc
314 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Captain Dan Lenson is under fire both at sea, and in Washington. His command of the first antiballistic-missile-capable cruiser in the Fleet, USS Savo Island, is threatened when he's called home to testify before Congress. There, he must defend his controversial decision to prevent a massive retaliatory missile attack by Israel against civilian targets in the Mideast. Shaken by the near-end of his career, Lenson returns to command uncertain of his...
Author
Publisher
Mira
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
335 pages ; 21 cm
Description
"She's never even seen the ocean before, but Eva Cassidy has her reasons for making the crossing to Hawaii, and they run a lot deeper than escaping a harsh Michigan winter. Newly enlisted as an Army Corps nurse, Eva is stunned by the splendor she experiences aboard the steamship SS Lurline; even more so by Lt. Clark Spencer, a man she is drawn to but who clearly has secrets of his own. But Eva's past--and the future she's trying to create--means that...
Author
Series
Publisher
G. P. Putnam's Sons
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
414 pages ; 24 cm.
Description
"Following the naval victories of the War of 1812 and the Second Barbary War, the United States is finally expanding its navy to take a place of prominence in world affairs. Bliven Putnam, now Captain of the sloop of war Rappahannock, has come into his own as a leader and is ordered to the Pacific. But with this new tour of duty to last more than two years, his patient wife, Clarity, unwilling to accept such a brief time together, at last puts her...
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