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Author: Sam Glanzman
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
Published: 2015-04-15
Total Pages: 177
ISBN-13: 0486798127
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"An unabridged republication of the following works originally published by Marvel Comics, New York: A Sailor's Story (1987) and A Sailor's Story, Book Two: Winds, Dreams, and Dragons (1989)"--Title page verso.
Author: Nilkanta Krishnan
Publisher:
Published: 2011
Total Pages: 406
ISBN-13: 9788189534141
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAutobiography of a former vice admiral of Indian Navy.
Author: David L. Bristow
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: 2014-05-13
Total Pages: 156
ISBN-13: 1466871423
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFor more than a century before airplanes, people explored the sky in balloons. From 1783 to the early 1900s, aeronauts flew into storms, crossed large bodies of water, sailed over enemy armies, and soared to deadly altitudes. Illustrated in full color with dramatuc period artwork, Sky Sailors by David L. Bristow presents the stories of the pioneers of human flight, such as daredevil Sophie Blanchard from Napoleon's France, and Salomon Andree, who lead an aerial assault on the North Pole in 1897.
Author: Theodore C. Mason
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-01-15
Total Pages: 260
ISBN-13: 1612511562
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
Author: Linda Jo Heffner
Publisher: Dudley Court Press, LLC
Published: 2021-11-02
Total Pages: 497
ISBN-13: 1940013976
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSo many love stories stop at the wedding vows...when couples pledge to love each other "for better or worse, in sickness and health, til death do us part." But not this one. In 1968, Linda sat next to a handsome sailor in the Penn State cafeteria. Who could resist a handsome sailor? Not Linda, who fell head over heels in love. Against the backdrop of the tumultuous sixties, they married and had three children, and Bud became the Navy officer of his dreams. But their perfect Navy family life unraveled with Bud's frightening symptoms hearkening back to two tours in Vietnam. A sudden collapse led to a diagnosis virtually impossible for a vital young man. While Linda raised their children and followed her vows to care for her husband, two questions plagued her: How could her young and healthy husband suddenly have such a sinister cancer? And how could his beloved Navy abandon him? On a mission of love, Linda spent years unearthing what really happened to Bud, only to find that the military that discarded him had hidden the truth about his illness for decades. Tainted Seas is the sometimes hilarious, sometimes heart-breaking story of a passionate couple coping with tragedy, and the continuing journey of a woman dedicated to justice for military families shattered by the very institutions they nobly served. A loving wife on a mission of true love and truth proves that nothing can stay hidden forever--even against the power of the US government.
Author: Gabriel García Márquez
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2014-10-15
Total Pages: 99
ISBN-13: 1101911093
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAVAILABLE FOR THE FIRST TIME IN eBOOK! In 1955, Garcia Marquez was working for El Espectador, a newspaper in Bogota, when in February of that year eight crew members of the Caldas, a Colombian destroyer, were washed overboard and disappeared. Ten days later one of them turned up, barely alive, on a deserted beach in northern Colombia. This book, which originally appeared as a series of newspaper articles, is Garcia Marquez's account of that sailor's ordeal. Translated by Randolf Hogan.
Author: Elmer J Renner
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-12-15
Total Pages: 273
ISBN-13: 1612515045
DOWNLOAD EBOOKCaught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific.
Author: C. Raymond Calhoun
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 232
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMore than 800 sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943.
Author: Steven L. Waterman
Publisher: Findtech Limited
Published: 2008-10-01
Total Pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780978763787
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEYES UNDER THE WATER When Steve Waterman left home in 1964, he was looking for the most exciting job the U.S. Navy had to offer. So Waterman became an underwater photographer, joining an elite group that numbered only fifteen men in the entire navy--men always on call for unusual and interesting assignments. Yet it was the time Waterman spent in Vietnam with Underwater Demolition Team 13 that deserves special respect. Existing in a state of adrenaline driven alertness, UDT-13 men carried out their harrowing missions. Stealthily, silently, they crept through Vietnam's waterways, never knowing if the next bend in the river concealed VC patiently waiting to spring a fiery, murderous ambush. Employing the wit and unvarnished honesty that got him into trouble more than once during his thirteen years in the navy, Waterman unfolds a compelling tale of an ordinary sailor who chose to serve his country during one of the most controversial, challenging times in its history.
Author: James Mayhew
Publisher:
Published: 2012-05
Total Pages: 24
ISBN-13: 9781846867507
DOWNLOAD EBOOKSail away to dreamland! Follow a small boy and his dog as they navigate the land of dreams in a paper boat. As you journey through the night, you will meet all kinds of curious and magical creatures.
