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"A gripping true-life thriller about the first US submarine to sink a Japanese aircraft carrier-and the sub's tragic twist of fate"-- Provided by publisher.

Documents the story of a covert submarine espionage operation against the Soviet Union during the Cold War as experienced by a commanding officer of the U.S.S. Blackfin, a submarine that faced high risks in the Soviet-controlled waters north of the Arctic Circle.

A major reconsideration of the role of the American West in the causes, military conduct, and consequences of the Civil War. On the evening of February 17, 1864, the Confederacy's H. L. Hunley sank the Union's formidable sloop of war the USS Housatonic and became the first submarine in world history to sink an enemy ship. But after accomplishing such a feat, the Hunley and her crew of eight also vanished beneath the cold Atlantic waters off Charleston,...

Examines the work of Marine Biologist Rich Lutz who studies the life that exists deep in the ocean, hoping to discover more clues that might help scientists learn how life on earth began after the planet was formed billions of years ago.

No espionage missions have been kept more secret than those involving American submarines. Now, Blind Man's Bluff shows for the first time how the Navy sent submarines wired with self-destruct charges into the heart of Soviet seas to tap crucial underwater telephone cables. It unveils how the Navy's own negligence might have been responsible for the loss of the USS Scorpion, a submarine that disappeared, all hands lost, thirty years ago. It tells

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This book describes the raising of the H.L. Hunley, a Southern submarine that sank during the Civil War, and the artifacts that came from the submarine's interior.