Early 20th Century
World War I
Pearl Harbor
World War II
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$16.00
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Bennett, Geoffrey,
NAVAL BATTLES OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR.
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$18.00
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Holloway, S.M.,
FROM TRENCH AND TURRET: ROYAL MARINES LETTERS AND DIARIES 1914-1918
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$25.00
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Hurd & Castle,
GERMAN SEA POWER
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[Lusitania], Daniel Allen Butler,
THE LUSITANIA: The Life, Loss, and Legacy of an Ocean Legend. NEW copy, handcover with dust jacket. Stackpole Books, 2000.
Photographs, appendices, notes, bibliography, index, 291 pages.
"...explains how a clandestine relationship between the Assistant Secretary of State and a British intelligence officer hopelessly compromised American neutrality. ...reveals that while a conspiracy within the British Admiralty to sink the Lusitania never existed, decisions were made at the highest levels that would ensure her eventual destruction..." OUT OF PRINT.
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[Lusitania], A.A. Hoehling & Mary Hoehling,
THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE LUSITANIA.
Bonanza Books, 1991. VG--, VG+. Spine rather cocked; remainder dot of top
page-edges. Otherwise a clean, tight copy. Reprint of 1956 edition.
~~~ Reconstructed from hundreds of survivors' accounts and naval documents and with a new preface that puts to rest several theories about the cargo of the fated ship, The Last Voyage of the Lusitania chronicles one of the greatest sea tragedies of all time. Though it took only eighteen minutes for the Lusitania to sink, this event changed the course of world history by bringing America into the First World War. A new generation of readers interested in American history will welcome this updated edition of the Hoehlings' classic account of the Lusitania.
~~~ Hardcover OUT OF PRINT; paperback currently in print at $16.95.
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[Lusitania], Mitch Peeke, Kevin Walsh-Johnson and Steven Jones,
THE LUSITANIA STORY.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2002).
Photographs, Passenger & Crew List, 1903 Agreement Cunard Obligations, Lusitania Online, Lusitania Dimensions & Statistics,
Bibliography, Index, 175 pages.
~~~ The Lusitania is today best remembered for the controversy surrounding her loss as a result of a German
submarine attack on Friday 7 May, 1915, during the First World War. But this book also tells of her life before that
cataclysmic event. It records the ground-breaking advances in maritime engineering that she represented, as well as
a hitherto unheard-of degree of opulence. After her sea trials (which she initially failed), her seven glorious years
of peacetime service are described when she captured the coveted Blue Riband for Great Britain. This book also takes
a close and authoritative look at the disaster which befell her and, with the help of leading experts, the authors
analyse the circumstances of her loss and try to determine why this magnificent vessel, together with 1,201 souls,
was lost in a mere eighteen minutes. After examining the subsequent public inquiries the story is brought right up
to date with a brief history of the wreck of this once fabulous liner. Thanks to the help of the current owner,
Gregg Bemis Junior, who has spent years and considerable resources surveying the wreck, many previously unresolved
questions are answered. The Lusitania Story is the complete story of this famous ocean liner, told for the first
time in a single volume with verified passenger and crew lists as well as an accurate record of those who survived
and perished. The value of this book is enhanced by its many illustrations.
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[Lusitania], Diana Preston,
LUSITANIA: An Epic Tragedy.
NEW copy, hardcover with dust jacket. (NY: Walker & Company, 2002). First Edition.
Maps, photographs, notes, bibliography, index, 532 pages.
~~~ From Kirkus Reviews: "A vivid reconstruction of the famed ocean liner's demise and its
history-altering consequences. The Cunard liner Lusitania was a veritable floating city, capable of carrying thousands
of passengers who, on a typical crossing from Liverpool to New York, consumed '40,000 eggs, 4,000 pounds of fresh fish,
two tons of bacon and ham, 4,000 pounds of coffee, 1,000 pineapples, 500 pounds of grapes, 1,000 lemons, 25,000 pounds
of meat, nearly 3,000 gallons of milk, over 500 gallons of cream, and 30,000 loaves of bread.' Telling details such as
these are the stuff in which popular historian Preston (The Boxer Rebellion) trades. She is equally devoted to
small touches when it comes to writing about major players in the Lusitania's unfortunate end; her brief portrait of
the petulant but gentlemanly Kaiser Wilhelm, for instance, is well worth the price of admission and does much to
illuminate German conduct in WWI. Though standard histories often use the sinking of the Lusitania as a quick way
to explain how the US came to shed its neutrality and enter the war on the side of the Allies, it was no sneak
attack; as Preston writes, the German embassy in New York issued written warning to all passengers that the vessel was
subject to sinking, inasmuch as the Royal Navy had pressed it into reserve service as a troop and materiel-transport
vessel. On its ill-fated final voyage, the Lusitania was in fact carrying armaments along with other contraband, though
Preston reckons that it would have been more civilized for the Germans to board and evacuate the ship before sinking it.
Instead, nearly 1,200 civilians died as a result of the German attack. Its aftermath ultimately changed the outcome of
the war for reasons that Preston does a characteristically fine job of explaining. Top-drawer military history, engagingly
told".
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[Lusitania], David Ramsay,
LUSITANIA: SAGA AND MYTH.
NEW copy. Hardcover with dust jacket. (NY: Norton & Co., 2002).
First American Edition. Photographic plates, maps, appendices, bibliography, index, 308 pages.
~~~ "The saga of the Lusitania is one of the most remarkable in the annals of maritime history. State-of-the-art
when she went into service and the first express liner to be equipped with steam turbines, she outclassed all her rivals.
She triumphantly restored British supremacy on the North Atlantic passenger routes and became an acknowledged commercial
success; she was highly popular with her regular passengers. Her sinking in May 1915 by a German U-boat, with heavy loss
of life, was at that time the most savage attack on civilians in the course of war, and was widely denounced in allied
and neutral countries. From that day her loss has become encrusted with legends (including conspiracy theories), many of
them created by German propaganda. In this new book David Ramsay has unraveled those myths and legends and tells a
clear and compelling saga of terrible maritime disaster and clashes among three powerful nations. It is a story of
potentates and presidents, ambassadors and ministers of state, bankers, shipping magnates, spies, and, not least,
Captain William Turner, who had to defend himself against charges of incompetence and fight for his reputation.
Based on detailed research, this new book almost certainly contains the most objective account of the history of
the liner and the circumstances surrounding her sinking. The sinking of Lusitania, which took a mere eighteen minutes, led to a loss of life comparable with the Titanic
disaster, and the ramifications were felt across Europe and America; this masterly telling of the story will
intrigue the general reader as much as it does the historian and enthusiast."
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[Lusitania], Colin Simpson,
THE LUSITANIA.
Little Brown and Company, 1972. Third Printing. Not a Book Club edition.
Original "$8.95" price still on dust jacket. A 3/4" triangular chip missing
from front panel of jacket along bottom, also a closed 3/4" tear on bottom of
front panel, and a similar tear on back panel. (flaws not shown in picture)
"Finally, the Startling Truth
about One of the Most Fateful of All Disasters of the Sea." Photographs, notes,
bibliography, index, 303 pages.
~~~ OUT OF PRINT.
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$25.00
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Moffat, Alexander W.,
Captain, USNR (Ret),
MAVERICK NAVY. A narrative memoir of the little-known
and largely forgotten anti-submarine warfare in World War I.
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$50.00
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Paine, Ralph D.,
THE CORSAIR IN THE WAR ZONE
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$50.00
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Parker, JP, Commodore US Navy,
INTERNATIONAL LAW DOCUMENTS.
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$75.00
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Wolfe, Robert, Chief,
U-BOATS AND T-BOATS, 1914-1918: GUIDES TO THE
MICROFILMED
RECORDS OF THE GERMAN NAVY, 1850-1945: No. 1.
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$35.00
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Ballard, Robert D., with Rick Archbold,
THE LOST SHIPS OF GUADALCANAL.
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$25.00
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Cutler, Thomas J., ,
THE BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF, 23-26 OCTOBER 1944
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$35.00
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[Donitz] Bernard Edwards,
DONITZ AND THE WOLF PACKS.
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$45.00
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 Givvin, Lou, USMCR,
"THINK IT OVER MATE".
Essential kit item for every WWII Marine and sailor, especially when
on shore leave.
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$25.00
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Harker, Jack S., HMNZS ACHILLES.
Battery Press, 1989. NEW, hardcover. 53 photos/drawings, 264 pages. World War II New Zealand cruiser history.
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$30.00
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Howarth,
MEN OF WAR: GREAT NAVAL CAPTAINS OF WORLD WAR II
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$30.00
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Hoyt,
NOW HEAR THIS: THE STORY OF AMERICAN SAILORS IN WORLD WAR II
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$25.00
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Leach,
NOW HEAR THIS: THE MEMOIR OF A JUNIOR NAVAL OFFICER IN THE GREAT PACIFIC WAR
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As is:
$25.00
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Lent, Henry B.,
SEABEE: BILL SCOTT BUILDS AND FIGHTS FOR THE NAVY
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$25.00
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Mason, Theodore C.,
BATTLESHIP SAILOR
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$25.00
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Moffat,
A NAVY MAVERICK COMES OF AGE, 1939-1945
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$20.00
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Monsarrat, John,
ANGEL ON THE YARDARM: THE
BEGINNINGS OF FLEET RADAR DEFENSE AND THE KAMIKAZE THREAT.
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$30.00
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Morison, Samuel Eliot,
THE TWO-OCEAN WAR: A SHORT
HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE SECOND
WORLD WAR
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$25.00
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Muir, Malcolm,
THE IOWA CLASS BATTLESHIPS: IOWA, NEW JERSEY, MISSOURI & WISCONSIN
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$40.00
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Parsons, Robert P., Captain,
MOB 3: A NAVAL HOSPITAL IN A SOUTH SEA JUNGLE
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$250.00
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~ SOLD ~
Pearl Harbor survivor's document group,
DOCUMENTS, PHOTOGRAPHS, ETC. BELONGING TO A U.S. NAVY GUNNER
WHO SERVED FROM THE LATE 1930s TO MID-'50s.
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$20.00
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Potter,
FIASCO: THE BREAK-OUT OF THE GERMAN BATTLESHIPS
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$20.00
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Romanelli,
BLUE GHOST MEMOIRS: USS Lexington CV-16, 1943-1945
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$65.00
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Roscoe, Theodore,
UNITED STATES SUBMARINE OPERATIONS IN WORLD WAR II.
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$27.00
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Savas, Theodore
SILENT HUNTERS: GERMAN U-BOAT COMMANDERS OF WORLD WAR II
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$50.00
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Turner Editorial Staff, BATTLE OF LEYTE GULF:
Greatest of All Sea Battles, Commemorative Edition .
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$45.00
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Steichen, Edward, Capt USNR (compiler).
US NAVY WAR PHOTOGRAPHS, PEARL HARBOR
TO TOKYO HARBOR.
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$95.00
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THE 53 [World War II Yearbook of the USS Warren]
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$25.00
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Vat, Dan van der,
THE PACIFIC CAMPAIGN: WORLD WAR II, THE U.S.~~JAPANESE NAVAL WAR, 1941~1945
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$30.00
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Wakeman,
SHORE LEAVE
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$35.00
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Wingate,
NEVER SO PROUD
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$30.00
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Woodard, C. Vann, BATTLE FOR LEYTE GULF.
Battery Press, 1989. NEW, hardcover issued without dust jacket. 46 photos/drawings,
6 maps, 244 pages. The history of the largest naval battle of world War II.
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$35.00
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Woodward, David,
THE TIRPITZ AND THE BATTLE FOR THE NORTH ATLANTIC.
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Butler, Daniel Allen,
Hough, Richard, 
Reckner, James R., 
