SOME OF THE "SPECIAL PAGES" ARE OF INTEREST TO MANY NON SPECIALISTS FOR EXAMPLE:
MARITIME LITERATURE: Tales of the Sea of Cosmic Consequence
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| SEASCAPE-STORM 1866-7 by Claude Monet |
You don't have to be a maritime professional or recerational boater, boat builder, diver, or surfer to enjoy MOBY DICK, or CAPTAINS COURAGEOUS. Many of the great works of literature are stories of the sea. Some are classics, some are known for their gritty realism and may be judged classics at some future point, THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER comes to mind. Everyone reads these sorts of books, we review, comment, recommend, and facilitate your acquisition whether you buy a library bound volume, commercial paper back, Kindle, or get a library loan. `The Maritime Literature "SPECIAL PAGE" is for everyone. But have you ever considered...........
NAVAL INTERESTS
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Sailors are avid readers, books are simply user friendly, no batteries or head sets required, no flickering screens or noise to disturb your ship mates. More over reading is essential to a modern sailor's career these days when a naval career means a commitment to career long continuing education. You would be surprised at what sailors are reading in terms of non fiction. To get a feel for sailor tastes in non fiction check out a small portion of the suggested reading list of the Chief of Naval Operations reprinted from our "NAVAL INTEREST SECTION below:
| All Quiet on the Western Front | Erich M. Remarque |
| American Caesar: Douglas MacArthur, 1880-1964 | William Manchester |
| Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes | Stephen M. Hawking |
| Command of the Seas: A Personal Story | John F. Lehman |
| Everything We Had: An Oral History of the Vietnam War by Thirty Three American Soldiers Who Fought It | Al Santoli, Ed. |
| Flight of the Intruder | Stephen Coontz |
| Hunt for Red October | Tom Clancy |
| In Love and War: The Story of a Family's Ordeal and Sacrifice During the Vietnam Years | James B. & Sybil Stockdale |
| In Search of Excellence: Lessons from America's Best-Run Companies | Thomas J. Peters |
| On Watch | Elmo Zumwalt |
| Red Badge of Courage | Stephen Crane |
| Red Storm Rising | Tom Clancy |
| Run Silent, Run Deep | Edward L. Beach |
| The Caine Mutiny | Herman Wouk |
| The Cruel Sea | Nicholas Monsarrat |
| The Killer Angels | Michael Shaara |
As you can see sailors are reading a lot more interesting stuff than just ordinance and gunnery manuals. No where else in the pages of American Admiralty Books would you be likely to find A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME, or THE RED BADGE OF COURAGE. Obviously the Chief of Naval Operations feels these works impart values to his sailors that don't require a nautical setting. But these classics are not the only popular reading that you might find in the NAVAL INTEREST SECTION.Some recent offerings include.
Project Azorian:
Nonfiction that is stranger than fiction, this is the story of the CIA and the secretive raising of the wrecked soviet nuclear submarine K-129. Project Azorian was a U.S. Central Intelligence Agency operation to recover the sunken Soviet submarine K-129 from the Pacific Ocean floor in 1974. The cover was ocean bottom mining exploration. The CIA used the purpose-built ship Hughes Glomar Explorer which in fact was built for the Azorian operation, but has since been used subsequently for actual deep sea floor mineral exploration. .The K-129 sank approximately 1,600 miles northwest of Hawaii in the 1960s.
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Allah's Angels - Chechen Women in War.
A comprehensive portrait of how the women of Chechnya were forced by the circumstances of war to undertake many non traditional roles and in the process advanced their own human rights. Those rights are now being lost to the advancing Islamists movement.
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BIOTERRORISM IN THE 21ST CENTUIRY: Emerging Threats in a Global Environment
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SEAL OF HONOR: Operation Red Wings and the Life of Lt. Michael P. Murphy USN
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WE WERE PIRATES: A Torpedoman's Pacific War.
Based on the WWII diary of Torpedoman Robert Hunt's 12 war patrols in the Pacific
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Faithful Warriors: A combat Marine Remembers the Pacific War (WW II)
Faithful Warriors
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FROM STORM TO FREEDOM: America's Long War with Iraq
America's Long War with Iraq
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