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Admiral Thunderbolt

The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

By: Col. Hans Christian Adamson

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Admiral Thunderbolt

The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

By: Col. Hans Christian Adamson

“A Sea Cadet in 1711 and a Vice Admiral in 1718, young Wessel barged into battle against his Swedish foes wherever he found them, often in direct violation of orders issued by timid souls in the Admiralty. But Frederik IV, King of Denmark-Norway, loved a winner. He gave his youthful fighting cock promotion after promotion, over scores of officers of senior vintage. The result was that Peter had almost as many enemies among officers in the Danish-Norwegian Navy as he had in that of Sweden. “So great were his battle conquests and his services to the nation that Captain Wessel, soon after his twenty-fifth birthday, was given a Patent of Nobility and the name Tordenskjold. Roughly translated, this means (Torden) The Thunderbolt that Strikes and (Skjold) The Shield that Defends. In actions on land and sea, Tordenskjold lifted his nom de guerre to deathless and stratospheric heights. “While this book is based on historical events and peopled by real persons, it is by no means a definitive history. The Great Northern War, which ran from 1709 to 1719, sucked Denmark-Norway, Russia, Poland, and England into conflict against the then mighty Sweden. Its pattern is too complicated for compression into a one-volume book dedicated to pinpointing the career of a single participant. For that matter, the historical facts, folklore, and legends that have been built up over the centuries around Vice Admiral Peter Tordenskjold are so voluminous that, in themselves, they could cover quite a spread of bookshelf! The problem has not been what to put into this book, but what to leave out and still do justice to its subject.”

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1787203913

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Hellcats of the Sea

By: Vice-Adm. Charles A. Lockwood,Col. Hans Christian Adamson

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Hellcats of the Sea

By: Vice-Adm. Charles A. Lockwood,Col. Hans Christian Adamson

Originally published in 1955, Hellcats of the Sea chronicles the activities of the U.S. Navy’s Pacific submarine fleet in World War II. At the heart of the book lies Operation Barney, the secret mission to bring the war closer to the islands of Japan; until June 9, 1945, the war extended to the Sea of Japan, but on this day, torpedoes from nine American submarines were launched at dozens of Japanese freighters, paralyzing maritime operations between Japan and Korea, and damaging Japan’s will to fight. A gripping read.

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1787207242

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Hell At 50 Fathoms

By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Hell At 50 Fathoms

By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

Hell at 50 Fathoms, written by Vice Admiral Charles A. Lockwood and Colonel Hans Christian Adamson, tells the story of submarine accidents of the United States Navy. It describes the bone-chilling experiences of valiant sailors who risked their lives to perfect underwater craft. Vice Admiral Lockwood, so well-known to submariners as the World War II Commander of the Submarine Force, U.S. Pacific Fleet, has always been interested in diving and all other underwater exploits. This interest was exemplified when, in July 1943, he led a group of swimmers in the recovery of a live torpedo. The torpedo had been test fired against a cliff in an effort to discover the cause of faulty exploders. This effort was successful. The fault was disclosed and corrected, much to the relief of submarine captains who had seen so many torpedoes bounce off Japanese ships without exploding. Lockwood was awarded the Legion of Merit for this conspicuous gallantry. This is a striking example of the resourcefulness inbred in submarine sailors. Each mishap discloses a weakness that is corrected. The tragedy of the sinking of the S-4 brought forth, with stunning forcefulness, the inadequacy of our technical competency to deal with a simple rescue problem. Within the steel hull of the S-4, brave men hammered out signals pleading for help—help that never came. Using the restored S-4 as an experimental laboratory, the Navy produced dramatic results in learning how entrapped men can escape, how surface crews can rescue them, and how to salvage a submarine for further service.—C. B. Momsen, Vice Admiral, USN (Ret.)

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1786256991

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Tragedy at Honda

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

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Tragedy at Honda

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

Known to seafarers as 'The Devil's Jaw, ' Point Honda has lured ships to its jagged rocks on the coast of California for centuries, but its worst calamity occurred on 8 September 1923, the night nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran into Honda's fog-wrapped reefs.

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0359257364

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9780359257362

Through Hell And Deep Water

By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Through Hell And Deep Water

By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

WELCOME ABOARD THE U.S.S. HARDER... She was credited with sinking twenty Japanese ships, eight of them destroyers. Her captain, Sam Dealey, devoted son and loving husband and father, was a product of peace. Sam Dealey, deadly torpedo marksman and destroyer killer, was a product of war. Aboard the Harder there was no time for gloating over, her victories. Dealey himself never gloated. As we have said, his attack manners were calm. He indulged in no shouting, no fanfare of destruction. After his torpedoes hit, he went about the business of bringing his ship into a position of safety as rapidly as possible. He did not linger to rejoice at the sight of an enemy going down. In his veins ran the milk of human kindness, in his heart was a feeling of humility and humanity that could not find pleasure in the destruction of a beautiful ship and a hundred odd human beings—deadly enemies though they were. Perhaps he remembered the worlds of Captain Philip of the old battleship Texas at the Battle of Santiago, who called to his cheering crew as their Spanish adversary sank: “Don’t cheer, boys; those poor devils are dying.” While Dealey never said so, in so many words, one could conclude that he hated the job of killing but knew it had to be done and did his best to carry out his duty. “HIT ‘EM HARDER!”...was the ship’s motto, and she most certainly did. On April 13 1944, open season was declared by our Submarines against the destroyers of the Imperial Japanese Navy, and Comdr. Sam Dealey was at the forefront of the attack. The hunters had become the hunted and Dealey’s “down the throat torpedo attacks helped to sink the Rising Sun. He showed great courage, too, when rescuing Australian coast watchers from Borneo’s shores, and again, with no reading left on the Fathometer and surf breaking twenty yards ahead, holding Harder against a reef and under fire of snipers to save an American pilot.—Print Ed.

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1786257009

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Zoomies, Subs and Zeros

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

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Zoomies, Subs and Zeros

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

As air battles with Japanese fighter planes increased over the Pacific toward the end of World War 2, the Submarine Lifeguard League was formed to rescue Allied aviators forced to either "hit the silk" or zoom their plane into the drink. The League helped save the lives of hundreds of Air Force, Navy, and Marine Corps pilots - including the life of future President George H. W. Bush - from Japs as well as from death at sea. Author Adm. Charles Lockwood (Hellcats of the Sea, Sink 'Em All ) brings his usual flair for submarine stories to his eye-witness account of events, providing a breathless narrative of the hair-raising adventures of this little-known sub-division of the US Naval Fleet.

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0359537251

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9780359537259

Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

The story of General Nathaniel Lyon, whom the author aptly calls a “Missouri Yankee,” is a drama of stirring political-military events breaking on the Western Border in the spring of 1861. In exactly 90 days, Missouri was forever lost to the Confederacy. The Lyon story is high tragedy staged at the sanguine second battle of the American Civil War—Wilson’s Creek. Colonel Hans Christian Adamson in Rebellion in Missouri combines all the necessary elements in the dramatic story. He expertly re-examines Lyon’s generalship of the Union Army of the West. He ably reflects upon the significance of the Battle of Wilson’s Creek now, a century later, in the light of all the evidence. Moreover, he brings to us, during the centennial year of Lyon’s death, a monumental biography of Lyon. The others are eulogistic and written in the stilted and artificial speech of the eighteen sixties.

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1786256428

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In 1926

Living on the Edge of Time

By: Hans Ulrich GUMBRECHT,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

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In 1926

Living on the Edge of Time

By: Hans Ulrich GUMBRECHT,Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht

In this thoroughly innovative work, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht evokes the year 1926 through explorations of such things as bars, boxing, movie palaces, hunger artists, airplanes, hair gel, bullfighting, film stardom and dance crazes. From the vantage points of Berlin, Buenos Aires, and New York, the reader is allowed multiple itineraries, ultimately becoming immersed in the activities, entertainments, and thought patterns of the citizens of 1926.

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Harvard University Press

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0674038045

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Admiral Thunderbolt

The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

By: Col. Hans Christian Adamson

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The Spectacular Career of Peter Wessel, Norway’s Greatest Sea Hero

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Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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By: Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Hell At 50 Fathoms

By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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By: Vice-Admiral Charles A Lockwood,Colonel Hans Christian Adamson

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Tragedy at Honda

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

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Tragedy at Honda

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

Known to seafarers as 'The Devil's Jaw, ' Point Honda has lured ships to its jagged rocks on the coast of California for centuries, but its worst calamity occurred on 8 September, 1923, the night nine U.S. Navy destroyers ran into Honda's fog-wrapped reefs. Admiral turned author Charles Lockwood (Sink 'Em All, Hellcats of the Sea) brilliantly recreates events as they happened, including the heroic efforts to rescue the men and ships. In his view, the cause of the tragedy lay in the interpretation of the differences that exist between the classic concepts of naval regulations and the stark realism of the unwritten code of destroyer doctrine to follow the leader.

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0359257402

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Hellcats of the Sea

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

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Hellcats of the Sea

By: Charles A. Lockwood,Hans Christian Adamson

Lockwood and Adamson present the extraordinary, true-life World War II adventure story of Operation Barney, during which American submarines slipped into Japan's innermost sea--using the newly developed, complex secret weapon, sonar--attacking merchant ships and units of the Imperial Japanese fleet.

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0553270591

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Hans Christian Andersen

The True Story of My Life

By: Hans Christian Andersen

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The True Story of My Life

By: Hans Christian Andersen

When Andersen wrote the story of his life, printed here in its original form, he had reached the height of international fame. He was surrounded by kind friends, welcomed by kings and princes, courted by poets and scholars. The struggles of his youth were behind him, but he had not travelled so far away from them that he had lost the warm glow of satisfaction in difficulties overcome. The shadows of old age were still distant. He had found the true medium of his genius in the fairy tales, and he was yet in the fullness of his creative power.It was natural, therefore, that he should look back upon his life as "a lovely story, happy and full of incident", and that he should think it could not have been happier or better even if a kind fairy had given the poor, friendless boy the power to choose this own career. The sufferings of the boy and youth had sunk into the background of his consciousness, and yet we need only listen to the undertones of his story to feel how poignant they had been, and how they had influenced the whole bent of his mind.

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1589634659

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Hellcats of the Sea

By: Vice-Adm. Charles A. Lockwood,Col. Hans Christian Adamson

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By: Vice-Adm. Charles A. Lockwood,Col. Hans Christian Adamson

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Admiral Thunderbolt

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Through Hell And Deep Water

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Zoomies, Subs and Zeros

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Rebellion In Missouri 1861: Nathaniel Lyon And His Army Of The West

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