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 Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous CrewBest Price: $12.95 This an unbelievably well-written book that keeps you on the edge of your seat, and I couldn't... |  ThunderstruckBest Price: $4.99 It is interesting how much literary artifice underlies this book. The mere synchrony of the... |  West with the NightBest Price: $3.15 I read this book because someone suggested my family might have been related to Beryl Markham,... |  The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors: The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest HourBest Price: $8.89 A couple of years ago, I read "Shattered Sword" (about the Battle of Midway) and... |  Patriot Pirates: The Privateer War for Freedom and Fortune in the American RevolutionBest Price: $14.63 I got this for my son and read it myself first. I learned things different from anything I have... |
 The Slave Ship: A Human HistoryBest Price: $8.18 Very informative on the conditions on board the slave ships before and during the atlantic... |  Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying Circumnavigation of the Globe (P.S.)Best Price: $3.99 I really enjoyed this book, but then I discovered something that brings its credibility into... |  McQueen's Machines: The Cars and Bikes of a Hollywood IconBest Price: $13.20 I bought this book for my husband. He is a car nut and likes anything McQueen. The book exceeded... |  The Pirate Primer: Mastering the Language of Swashbucklers & RoguesBest Price: $12.63 The book arrived yesterday and I spent hours last night perusing it learning about all things... |  Shattered Sword: The Untold Story of the Battle of MidwayBest Price: $16.90 Shattered Sword by Parshall and Tully is simply breathtaking, the most thoroughly researched and... |
 Ship of Gold in the Deep Blue SeaBest Price: $3.45 It took Kinder ten years to write this book--and it shows. A really marvelous tale, brilliantly... |  Mutiny: The True Events That Inspired The Hunt For Red OctoberBest Price: $14.94 I found this story amazing, compelling and very insightful into the inner workings and life in... |  SpaceShipOne: An Illustrated HistoryBest Price: $23.06 I love this book. It inspires and informs beyond the SpaceShipOne to cover the people and their... |  Teardrops and Tiny TrailersBest Price: $13.59 Another Douglas Keister book full of high quality photography and great reading. For the... |  Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese EyesBest Price: $18.37 I was hesitant to buy this book at first; war stories from the Japanese captain's eyes? He is... |
 Dreams of Africa in Alabama: The Slave Ship Clotilda and the Story of the Last Africans Brought to AmericaBest Price: $17.51 For 300 years the Atlantic Slave Trade brought 12 million people from Africa to the New World.... |  Leviathan: The History of Whaling in AmericaBest Price: $7.75 It's cliched to say something like "The best history books bring history alive." The... |  Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of SurvivalBest Price: $4.79 Skeletons on the Zahara was one of the most amazing survival stories I have ever read. What an... |  Inside the Titanic (A Giant Cutaway Book)Best Price: $10.53 After reading a short story in Reading class, my daughters became very curious about the... |  The Endurance: Shackleton's Legendary Antarctic ExpeditionBest Price: $5.11 Caroline Alexander's work of non-fiction The Endurance is a wonderful read, effectively... |
| Japanese Destroyer Captain: Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Midway - The Great Naval Battles As Seen Through Japanese Eyes Best Price: $17.49 I was hesitant to buy this book at first; war stories from the Japanese captain's eyes? He is... |  The Hemi in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive ArchaeologyBest Price: $13.95 I have the first book, "The Cobra in the Barn", this book is as good if not better,... |  You Know You Love Me: A Gossip Girl NovelBest Price: $1.00 This entire book series and the accompanying television show are a prime example of everything... | Skeletons on the Zahara: A True Story of Survival Best Price: $4.60 Skeletons on the Zahara was one of the most amazing survival stories I have ever read. What an... |  Patrick O'Brian's NavyBest Price: $14.95 This book is not just for landlubbers. This old sea dog acquired a lot of new information about... |
 Nothing Like It In the World : The Men Who Built the Transcontinental Railroad 1863-1869Best Price: $2.88 'Nothing Like it In the World' by Stephen Ambrose As usual, Mr. Ambrose delivers his straight... |  In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship EssexBest Price: $3.00 Philbrick is a good writer. Sometimes I felt pulled between the history of Nantucket, an inside... |  The Republic of Pirates: Being the True and Surprising Story of the Caribbean Pirates and the Man Who Brought Them DownBest Price: $6.25 This book was very descriptive and detailed. All the pirates, their crews, and ships were all... |  Flying the SR-71 Blackbird: In the Cockpit on a Secret Operational MissionBest Price: $17.13 This is a great book! It's exactly what the title says it is -- a pilot's inside the cockpit... |  All Hands Down: The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS ScorpionBest Price: $11.55 i did not find this book credible. he has some hearsay type evidence from interviews or from... |
 Sailing into the Abyss: A True Story of Extreme Heroism on the High Seas--winner of the 2006 US Maritime Literature AwardBest Price: $7.98 "Sailing into the Abyss" by William R. Benedetto is to the Merchant fleet what the... |  The Titanic: Lost and Found (Step-Into-Reading, Step 4)Best Price: $0.84 My 7-year-old read this (with a little help), and we were both fascinated. The story is told... |  One Percenter: The Legend of the Outlaw BikerBest Price: $12.95 One Percenter - The Legend Of The Outlaw Biker By Dave... |  Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, R.M.S. Titanic 1912 (Dear America Series)Best Price: $0.49 this book really surprize me on how much i loved it.i read it in one sitting.i could not put it... |  If By Sea: The Forging of the American Navy -From the Revolution to the War of 1812Best Price: $17.00 I enjoyed "If By Sea." It's well researched and well written. The author shows that... |
 A Night to RememberBest Price: $1.50 I just re-read Night to Remember for the first time in many years, and was reminded why it got... |  Last Train to Paradise: Henry Flagler and the Spectacular Rise and Fall of the Railroad that Crossed an OceanBest Price: $6.75 Outstanding book--extremely well-written and very interesting. It's an enjoyable book even for... |  The Arts of the Sailor: Knotting, Splicing and RopeworkBest Price: $5.70 A generally informative book, but..... some of the directions refer to diagrams with arrows... |  101 Performance Projects for Your BMW 3 Series 1982-2000 (Motorbooks Workshop)Best Price: $21.70 This is best "workshop manual" I have used. By far the easiest to understand - love... |  Inside IMSA's Legendary GTP Race Cars: The Prototype ExperienceBest Price: $31.40 After all these years, somebody has written an extensive history of the IMSA GTP car. Highly... |
 Jane's Aircraft Recognition Guide Fifth Edition (Jane's Recognition Guides)Best Price: $11.60 As the title suggests, this book may be useful to take to an airport or an airshow and identify... |  Norfolk Southern Railway (MBI Railroad Color History)Best Price: $24.38 With a quarter of a century behind it, Norfolk Southern is one of the oldest Class 1 railroads... |  The Bounty: The True Story of the Mutiny on the BountyBest Price: $0.01 Ms. Alexander's work is carefully researched and beautifully written. She also has clear biases... |  BMW 5 Series (E39) Service Manual: 1997-2002 (2 volume set)Best Price: $107.07 When you pay top dollar for something with the name Bentley on it, you get what you pay for! |  Empire of Blue Water: Captain Morgan's Great Pirate Army, the Epic Battle for the Americas, and the Catastrophe That Ended the Outlaws' Bloody ReignBest Price: $7.65 This book is the story of a criminal. Infamous Henry Morgan and his bunch of criminals attacked,... |
 Sheet Metal Fabrication: Techniques and Tips for Beginners and Pros (Motorbooks Workshop)Best Price: $16.17 In our mechanized day of mass production, the craft of hand-forming sheet metal into compound... |  How to Build a Bobber on a Budget (Motorbooks Workshop)Best Price: $14.01 If you are a motorcycle enthusiast, a gear head, have an active bike building project or just... |  A General History of the PyratesBest Price: $10.94 A General History of the Pyrates is good reading! Great history on famous pirates! |  Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651)Best Price: $14.96 I liked this book. But then again I like stereo instructions. Not a lot of suspense or intrigue... |  Porsche High-Performance Driving HandbookBest Price: $18.68 Informative,with some Porsche specific info and a pleasure to read. Vic adds in bits of personal... |
| Porsche High-Performance Driving Handbook Best Price: $18.68 Informative,with some Porsche specific info and a pleasure to read. Vic adds in bits of personal... |  The Pirate Ship 1660-1730 (New Vanguard)Best Price: $6.60 `The Pirate Ship, 1660 - 1730': This book's strong points are the full color illustrations,... |  Two Tankers Down: The Greatest Small-Boat Rescue in U.S. Coast Guard HistoryBest Price: $11.53 A riveting account of the greatest small-boat rescue in American history. |  Yeager: An AutobiographyBest Price: $4.05 This is a pretty good autobiography. Not a five star in my opinion as a 5 star book review leads... |  The Unnatural History of the SeaBest Price: $17.46 This is an eye-opening, informative look at the history of the world's fisheries throughout... |
 Deep Descent: Adventure and Death Diving the Andrea DoriaBest Price: $3.84 If you want to know about the Andrea Dorea or have read about it before this is a must read. |  To End All WarsBest Price: $7.00 This was one of the most moving Christian testimonies I have read. It is the amazing biography... |  The Art of RiggingBest Price: $6.24 Requires a basic knowledge of ship's rigging to be useful; but for the modeller, it is an... |  Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS ScorpionBest Price: $14.47 I used to be a torpedo "cook-off" believer,however without advocating one way or the... |  LindberghBest Price: $3.00 I've read parts of this book, and from what I can tell, it is similar to other biographies of... |
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