Naval Science

There are no Gods in the trench. Only monsters. When the classified deep sea prototype USS Leviathan (X-241) vanishes near the Laurentian Abyss, the Navy scrambles for answers. Minutes later, the USS Seawolf (SSN-21) records a sonar contact that is colossal, biological, and accelerating. Then the ocean swallows it whole. Team Odin deploys the new ORCA Platoon, a sixteen-operator unit drawn from the most lethal Naval Special Warfare teams on the planet. Their mission takes them into the abyss in DS-RAX Armor, advanced technology engineered by DARPA and the Skunkworks Division at Nidavellir ...

A modern American expeditionary strike group vanishes from a routine exercise — and reappears in the Mediterranean at the edge of the Second Punic War. No satellites. No resupply. No modern nation behind them. Only finite fuel, limited ammunition, fragile medical stores, and ships powerful enough to terrify the ancient world — but not powerful enough to survive carelessness. Commodore Daniel Mercer commands a fleet that should not exist in 218 BCE. Around him are modern warships, Marines, aircraft, drones, engineers, doctors, and enough firepower to shatter any ancient navy. But every ...

A fresh account of some of history's greatest warriors. The Vikings had an extraordinary and far-reaching historical impact. From the eighth to the 11th centuries, they ranged across Europe - raiding, exploring, and colonizing - and their presence was felt as far away as Russia and Byzantium. They are most famous as warriors, yet perhaps their talent for warfare is too little understood.

As the last starfighter, only Henry Gallant can stop the alien invasion. In an era of genetic engineering, Henry Gallant is the only Natural left in the United Planets' fleet. With the space fleet on the verge of annihilation from the alien invasion, analyzing the captured computer in Gallant's possession is critical to stopping them. He can expect no help as he navigates through threatening aliens on his way to Mars, and his shipmates doubt he is up to the challenge. But as the last starfighter in Squadron 111, the lives of his shipmates, as well as a good many others, depend on Henry ...

Commander Tony Romella takes a small team on what is expected to be a routine one month trip to Casablanca, Morocco. Their mission is simply to provide a temporary Top Secret special intelligence communications center to support U.S. members of a high level Allied war planning meeting. An easy mission quickly goes awry. Only two months after the Allied assault and occupation of Casablanca (Operation TORCH), the city remains a hotbed of Vichy and German sympathizers and spies. One unexpected event leads to another. Things get dicey, with life threatening situations, shots fired and dead bodies.

Inspired by the classic Star Trek episode Balance of Terror. ⭐ Rated 4.43 on Goodreads • 14 Ratings Hollywood actress by day. WWII inventor by night. Hedy Lamarr believes her revolutionary frequency-hopping technology will help the Allies win World War II. But when her invention is tested aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer during a violent Atlantic storm, the impossible happens. Locked in a deadly cat-and-mouse battle with a German U-boat, both warships are pulled through a mysterious time vortex... into the past. Now sworn enemies face an impossible choice: Prevent the worst maritime ...

Humanity won the war. Now they have to survive the peace. The Dominion is shattered. The Grand Architect is dead. And for the first time in five hundred years, the stars belong to someone else. Captain Will Statham should feel victorious. Instead, the Exodus Fleet is fracturing from the inside. Forty thousand liberated aliens are converging on the fleet, desperate for protection from the collapsing Dominion remnants hunting them through the dark. Civilian unrest is spreading across the cargo holds. The Irregulars are exhausted to the breaking point. And after years of fighting like a ...

July 1942. Convoy PQ-17 is being hunted across the Arctic. German bombers, U-boats, and surface raiders are tearing apart the scattered merchant ships bound for the Soviet Union. Sailors are freezing in lifeboats. Cargo meant for the Eastern Front is burning in the Norwegian Sea. The Luftwaffe expects another massacre. Then the USS Gerald R. Ford appears where no ship like her should exist. A modern American carrier strike group has been thrown back into World War II with no warning, no explanation, and no way to replace the missiles, aircraft, fuel, and technology it spends. Rear Admiral ...

The legendary explorer of the Titanic shares inside stories of danger, suspense, and discovery - plus previously untold stories about his own dyslexia and how it has shaped his life.

The fleet survived its arrival. Now it must survive what people do with its rules. After a modern American expeditionary strike group is stranded in the Mediterranean during the Second Punic War, Malta becomes more than a foothold. It becomes the beginning of a road — a protected route where fuel, medicine, labor, witnesses, and law must all be counted. But Rome, Carthage, smugglers, debt holders, engineers, scribes, and ambitious men of learning quickly understand the truth: whoever controls the rules of the Route may control the future around it. False tolls appear. False medicine ...

An original full-length novel set in the Halo universe and based on the New York Times bestselling video game series! August 2558. Rion Forge was once defined by her relentless quest for hope amidst the refuse and wreckage of a post-Covenant War galaxy—years spent searching for family as much...

So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers. From deep ocean caves on the Oregon coast to the panicked and chaotic streets of post-Katrina New Orleans, here are their stunningly heroic stories.

On a quiet Saturday morning in August 2000, two explosions - one so massive it was detected by seismologists around the world - shot through the shallow Arctic waters of the Barents Sea. Russia's prized submarine, the Kursk, began her fatal plunge to the ocean floor. Award-winning journalist Robert Moore presents a riveting, brilliantly researched account of the deadliest submarine disaster in history.

You’re in the cockpit of the legendary F-14 Tomcat fighter, blazing along at twice the speed of sound seven miles above the ocean and the carrier that hurled you off its deck. You’re practicing dogfighting with “aggressors,” guys on your side flying F-16s. You’re patrolling the tense skies above Iraq, and with the push of a button you can launch the 100-mile Phoenix missile that can blow a foe to scrap before you even see him. You are an expert in fighter tactics and aircraft carrier operations, and it all leads to your command of an F-14 fighter squadron of more than three hundred people.

Based on interviews with more than 40 survivors, knowledgeable political insiders, and Soviet archives of the period, investigative writer Joan Mellen presents evidence suggesting complicity between US and Israeli intelligence in the attack on Liberty and the more than 50-year long cover-up. What were the underlying motives? Was this a false flag operation conducted in the midst of the Six-Day War? Was it conceivable that Israel would have initiated such an operation without a green light from the United States?

In this masterful account in the spirit of Bill Bryson and Ian Frazier, a longtime deep-sea diver masterfully weaves together the science and history of Earth's last remaining frontier: the sea. In an age of unprecedented exploration and innovation, our oceans remain largely unknown, and...

The road has learned the sea. After surviving its impossible arrival and building the Route, the stranded American expeditionary strike group now faces a new kind of war. The rules that once protected medicine, fuel, workers, witnesses, and children have crossed beyond Malta — into harbors, fleets, markets, workshops, and the hands of men who know how to turn law into power. Rome wants witness. Carthage wants control. Syracuse wants proof. And Archimedes wants to understand the machine behind the miracle. But the greatest danger is not a fleet, a fire ship, or a stolen weapon. It is a man...

EDITORIAL REVIEW THE ABYSS delivers relentless deep-ocean terror grounded in documented encounters and military realism, pulling readers into a world where the unknown is not myth — it is measured, recorded, and feared. Ted Lazaris builds tension with precision, culminating in a chilling revelation that transforms a routine mission into a permanent entry in the record. This is a gripping, cinematic installment in the Documented Terror series that leaves one unsettling truth behind: some discoveries are never meant to surface. THE SIGNAL BELOW A True Documented Terror — The Real USO / ...

During World War II, Port Chicago was a segregated naval munitions base on the outer shores of San Francisco Bay. On July 17, 1944, an explosion rocked the base, killing 320 men — 202 of whom were Black ammunition loaders. In the ensuing weeks, White officers were given leave time and commended for heroic efforts, whereas 328 of the surviving Black enlistees were sent to load ammunition on another ship. When they refused, 50 men were singled out and charged — and convicted — of mutiny. It was the largest mutiny trial in US naval history.

Sealab is the underwater Right Stuff: the compelling story of how a U.S. Navy program sought to develop the marine equivalent of the space station - and forever changed man's relationship to the sea. While NASA was trying to put a man on the moon, the U.S. Navy launched a series of daring experiments to prove that divers could live and work from a sea-floor base.