Top 10 Best "Navy" Books

The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors

James D. Hornfischer

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The Greatest U.S. Navy Stories Ever Told

Iain C. Martin

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The Greatest U.S. Navy Stories Ever Told

On Friday, October 13, 1775, Congress decided to send two ships to harass the vessels supplying the British Army in America, thereby creating what would become the most powerful navy in the history of the world. Since that fateful day in Philadelphia, the men and women of the United States Navy have created the finest traditions of service and honor, and supplied a pantheon of heroes who have upheld them. In The Greatest U.S. Navy Stories Ever Told , editor Iain Martin has accumulated these sailors' most amazing true tales of service and sacrifice, from John Paul Jones's famous address in 1799 before beating the vastly superior HMS Serapis --"I have not begun to fight!"--to the carrier pilots and personnel who patrol in the Persian Gulf today. James Fenimore Cooper recounts the story of the navy's oldest ship still in commission--the USS Constitution ("Old Ironsides")--as she defeated HMS Levant and HMS Cyane in one of the most impressive feats of wartime seamanship in the days of sail. George Dewey gives an eyewitness account of the victory over the Spanish in Manila Bay on May 1, 1...

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Making a Submarine Officer - A story of the USS San Francisco (SSN 711) eBook

Alex Fleming

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It's Your Ship

Michael Abrashoff

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U.S. Navy Alphabet Book

Sammie Garnett
Jerry Pallotta
Rob Bolster

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A Squid's Story My First Four Years in the United States Navy

John Rudolph

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Reminiscences of Two Years in the United States Navy eBook

John M. (John Mullin) Batten

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Chester G. Hearn

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The Navy

Admiral W.J. Holland Jr.

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The Navy as a Fighting Machine eBook

Bradley Allen Fiske

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Honor, Courage, Commitment

Through words and pictures, J. F. Leahy chronicles the transition of eighty-one men and women from civilians to sailors at the U.S. Navy Recruit Training Command in Great Lakes, Illinois. Revealing a side of today's youth that many will find surprising, his examination of the unique American institution--popularly known as boot camp--offers a look into the hearts and minds of a group of young people who are a cross section of the nation. The work sheds light on the controversy over gender integration and helps bridge the gap between the military services and the society they serve.

During the fall of 2000, the author was granted unlimited and unprecedented access to the recruits from the time they arrived at Chicago's airport until their graduation. Observing their training evolutions first hand, he interviewed them at every opportunity and surveyed them through a series of his own specially designed reaction papers. He watched them as they struggled through obstacle courses and learned how to fight shipboard fires. He listened as they shared their feelings, and he cheere...

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Honor, Courage, Commitment

J. F. Leahy

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Six Frigates

Ian W. Toll

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