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1) The crisis
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 12
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
404 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
Assigned to improve an undisciplined patrol craft squadron in the Red Sea, Naval Commander Dan Lenson and his Tactical Analysis Group find themselves on a humanitarian mission in famine-stricken northern Africa, where a young jihadist coordinates a violent insurgency.
Author
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
317 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
Margaret Mayfield is nearly an old maid at twenty-seven in post-Civil War Missouri when she marries Captain Andrew Jackson Jefferson Early. He's the most famous man their small town has ever produced: a naval officer and a brilliant astronomer, a genius who, according to the local paper, has changed the universe. Margaret's mother calls the match "a piece of luck".
3) The command
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 8
Pub. Date
c2004
Physical Desc
386 p. : map ; 25 cm.
4) Korea Strait
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 10
Pub. Date
2007
Physical Desc
323 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
U.S. Navy commander Dan Lenson oversees an international training exercise off the coast of the Korean peninsula and discovers a disabled North Korean submarine on a deadly mission.
5) The weapon
Author
Series
Tales of the Modern Navy volume 11
Pub. Date
2008
Physical Desc
357 p. : map ; 25 cm.
Description
Struggling to obtain the plans for a new Russian nuclear warhead, Navy commander Dan Lenson and his team are betrayed and barely escape with their lives, a situation that prompts an even more dangerous attempt to steal the weapon off of an Iranian submarine.
6) The cruiser
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2014
Physical Desc
310 pages ; 25 cm.
Description
"Newly-promoted to captain, Dan Lenson's first glimpse of his command is of a ship literally high and dry. The USS Savo Island, which carries a classified, never-before-deployed missile defense system, has run aground on an exposed sandbar off Naples. Captain Lenson has to relieve the ship's disgraced skipper and deploy on a secret mission--Operation Stellar Shield--which will take his ship and crew into the dangerous waters bordering the Middle East"--...
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Series
Sunrise at Normandy volume 1
Description
In 1944, American naval officer Lt. Wyatt Paxton arrives in London to prepare for the Allied invasion of France. He works closely with Dorothy Fairfax, a "Wren" in the Women's Royal Naval Service. Dorothy pieces together reconnaissance photographs with thousands of holiday snapshots of France--including those of her own family's summer home--in order to create accurate maps of Normandy. Maps that Wyatt will turn into naval bombardment plans. As the...
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Formats
Description
"In his final tour of duty after a remarkable career at sea, Dan Lenson is appointed Superintendent of the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He begins at a difficult time: Congress is cutting military budgets in the wake of the devastating world war with China, calls for radical reform are upending traditions, and Dan himself faces legal jeopardy for his actions during the war. And when a Category 5 hurricane threatens to overwhelm the coast, Dan must...
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Series
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
296 p. ; 25 cm.
Description
"P. T. Deutermann's previous novels of the US Navy in World War II - Pacific Glory, Ghosts of Bungo Suido, and Sentinels of Fire - have been acclaimed by reviewers and readers for their powerful drama and authentic detail.In The Commodore, the Navy in 1942-1943 is fighting a losing battle against Japan for control of the Solomon Islands. Vice Admiral William "Bull" Halsey is tasked to change the course of the war. Halsey, a maverick, goes on the...
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Series
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
448 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
It is 1801 and President Thomas Jefferson has assembled a deep-water navy to fight the growing threat of piracy, as American civilians are regularly kidnapped by Islamist brigands and held for ransom, enslaved, or killed, all at their captors' whim. The Berber States of North Africa, especially Tripoli, claimed their faith gave them the right to pillage anyone who did not submit to their religion. Young Bliven Putnam, great-nephew of Revolutionary...
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