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Author
Publisher
Edge Books/Capstone Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Accelerated Reader
IL: MG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 1
Language
English
Description
For many centuries, warships were key to a nation's power. Read about how sailing ships fought for control of the oceans and about the coming of iron and steel warships, and find out what life is like in a nuclear submarine.
Series
Weapons of war volume 3
Publisher
International Masters Publishers
Pub. Date
c2006
Language
English
Description
This DVD traces the rise of the biggest warships in the world as the United States air power went from early biplanes landing on converted battleships to the huge modern supercarriers of today.
Author
Publisher
Casemate
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
How Carriers Fought explores how aircraft carriers were used, particularly by the U.S. Navy and Imperial Japanese Navy, during World War II. It offers a uniquely detailed insight into carrier operations and reassessment of a number of carrier battles, busting a number of myths about carriers and naval aviation along the way.
Author
Series
Jake Grafton volume 2
Publisher
Pocket Books
Pub. Date
c1994
Language
English
Description
Lieutenant Jake Grafton, the hero of Flight of the Intruder, turns teacher, training Marine aviators on the aircraft carrier, Columbia, and finding them a little too arrogant for his liking. The highlight of the novel comes when Grafton is shot down and captured by pirates.
Author
Series
Finn thriller volume 1
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Formats
Description
When Navy SEAL sniper Finn steps on board the USS Abraham Lincoln, adrift in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, it's immediately clear something is wrong. It's been a long deployment for the crew. With poor leadership and a lengthy slog home ahead of them, morale is low. But then crew members start disappearing one by one, and what at first seems like a string of unfortunate coincidences reveals something much more sinister at play. There's a killer...
Author
Publisher
William Morrow, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Presents the extraordinary story of the Newport News Shipbuilding yard in Virginia and its thirty thousand employees and shipyard workers who battle layoffs, the elements, impossible deadlines, extraordinary pressure, workplace dangers, and a pandemic to build the U.S. Navy's newest and most powerful aircraft carrier.
13) Cuba
Author
Series
Jake Grafton volume 7
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Formats
Description
As Fidel Castro lies dying in Cuba, the U.S. awaits the unavoidable power struggle, but unbeknownst to everyone, the President of the United States has hidden secret weapons on Cuba's Guantanemo Bay, and when those weapons are discovered by Cuban factions, only Admiral Grafton can save America from total annihilation.
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