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.

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.

Six hundred years in the future, humanity has learned to cross the stars by entering Two-Space — also called Flatland — a vast two-dimensional realm where sentient wooden warships sail beneath canvas, and advanced technology cannot survive. • There, humans discover a galaxy already filled with other peoples: the elven Sylvans, who flourish in the vast forests of low-gravity worlds; the dwarven Dwadelf, who thrive deep in the mines of high-gravity planets; and other, far stranger alien races. • The ancient Sylvans, enchanted by human culture, have embraced J.R.R.

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...

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.

Five centuries from home. One nuclear-powered aircraft carrier. And now, something is answering. Months have passed since the USS Gerald R. Ford vanished from the twenty-first century and appeared in the year 1519. Its crew has survived disease, political intrigue, Spanish attacks, and the dangerous consequences of introducing modern technology into a world that was never meant to possess it. Fort Rainbow has grown from a desperate beachhead into a settlement thousands now depend on. Alliances have formed. Enemies have adapted. Then the experimental Rainbow system detects an impossible ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

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...

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?

Commander Jack Morrow wakes up on the deck of a warship that shouldn't exist yet. Seconds ago he was executive officer of a guided-missile destroyer in the Gulf of Oman, 2019. Now he's flat on steel that still smells of fresh paint, and the sky over Pearl Harbor is full of smoke. The date is December 7, 1941. Morrow knows exactly how this war ends. He knows which ships sink, which men live, and which five months will decide the entire Pacific. He also knows that changing any of it , the fall of Wake Island, a friend's death at Coral Sea, the outcome at Midway — carries a cost he cannot ...

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.

Greta nació en la Edad Media. Irati, mucho más vieja, pertenece a una raza extinta que ya no camina la Tierra. Es la última de su estirpe. Pero en el mundo quedan otras razas como la suya, tribus que conocen los secretos de los bosques primigenios. Y en el presente, un espíritu ancestral sobrevuela los sueños de un niño de aura azul. No solo las brujas ansían su corazón. Solo necesitan su nombre....

Every system on a U.S. carrier strike group goes dark at the same time. No warning. No explanation. No attack. When power returns, the Navy finds something buried in the ships' industrial control systems: Modbus communication frames, standards-compliant, individually addressed to each programmable logic controller on every vessel. The frames are not an exploit. They are not malware. They are a handshake, written in the oldest digital protocol in industrial automation, waiting for a response. The Navy calls Elias Cain. Cain is sixty-two years old, retired, and fixing the plumbing under his ...

In an era when a single ocean voyage could alter the geopolitical balance of the globe, one English mariner embarked on an expedition that would challenge the mightiest empire of the sixteenth century. The Queen's Pirate: Francis Drake and the Voyage that Shook an Empire offers a long, detailed, and politically neutral account of the legendary circumnavigation of 1577–1580. This work of maritime history moves beyond romanticized mythology to deliver a grounded, balanced exploration of a journey defined equally by audacity, extreme survival, and high-stakes diplomacy. The narrative ...

At 12:17, the Mediterranean vanished. Commodore Leah Navarro commands Hesperia, a 54,000-ton disaster-response ship loaded with field hospitals, water plants, aircraft, seed, tools, and food for a modern relief mission. Then a black storm tears her convoy out of 2039 and hurls 1,216 survivors into the Late Bronze Age—a coastline already collapsing under war, famine, disease, and broken trade. No satellites. No resupply. No modern nation behind them. The fleet can dominate a harbor, but it cannot manufacture antibiotics, aviation fuel, desalination membranes, batteries, or trust. Every ...