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After narrowly escaping the Japanese-held Philippines, he is promoted to the destroyer USS Howell. His new assignment puts him in the middle of two epic naval engagements: the Battle of Cape Esperance and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands. But his fight against the Imperial Japanese Navy is just the beginning. Todd learns that his lost love has joined the Philippine resistance on a nearby island. He sets off to find her...under the watchful eye of an enemy spy in the ranks.
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5 out of 5 stars
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narration
- By JAMESBOWMAN on 10-09-21
By: John J. Gobbell
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Steel Fear
- A Thriller
- By: Brandon Webb, John David Mann
- Narrated by: Johnathan McClain
- Length: 13 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 593
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 519
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The moment Navy SEAL sniper Finn sets foot on the USS Abraham Lincolnto hitch a ride home from the Persian Gulf, it’s clear something is deeply wrong. Leadership is weak. Morale is low. And when crew members start disappearing one by one, what at first seems like a random string of suicides soon reveals something far more sinister: There’s a serial killer on board. Suspicion falls on Finn, the newcomer to the ship. After all, he’s being sent home in disgrace, recalled from the field under the dark cloud of a mission gone horribly wrong.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good Story, but....
- By Amazon Customer on 10-13-21
By: Brandon Webb, and others
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Gallant Lady
- A Biography of the USS Archerfish
- By: Don Keith, Ken Henry
- Narrated by: Alan Sklar
- Length: 14 hrs and 32 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 92
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 51
The Archerfish, a diesel powered Balao-class submarine crafted in the 1940s, won a unique, heroic place in military history and the memories of her crew members. Here is her story: from her assembly in New England and her dedication by Eleanor Roosevelt's personal secretary, to her service in World War II, where she broke the back of the Japanese Navy, and her critical role in the Cold War.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Bilgewater
- By Richard on 04-01-06
By: Don Keith, and others
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The Edge of Honor
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: J. Charles, Sandra Burr
- Length: 21 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 251
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 167
A man's duty...a woman's passion...The Edge of Honor cuts both ways. In this sweeping novel of the Vietnam War at sea and on the homefront, Lieutenant Brian Holcomb, smart, ambitious, honorable, and up for promotion, discovers that his ship - the USS John Bell Hood - hides a dangerous secret. What Brian does about it may end his career, or threaten the lives of hundreds.
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5 out of 5 stars
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I Effing Love P.T. Deutermann!!
- By Mobilis on 05-21-09
By: P. T. Deutermann
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Into the Raging Sea
- Thirty-Three Mariners, One Megastorm, and the Sinking of the El Faro
- By: Rachel Slade
- Narrated by: Erin Bennett
- Length: 11 hrs and 36 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,088
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 963
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 959
On October 1, 2015, Hurricane Joaquin barreled into the Bermuda Triangle and swallowed the container ship El Faro whole, resulting in the worst American shipping disaster in 35 years. No one could fathom how a vessel equipped with satellite communications and a sophisticated navigation system could suddenly vanish - until now. Relying on hundreds of exclusive interviews with family members and maritime experts, as well as the words of the crew members themselves - whose conversations were captured by the ship’s data recorder - journalist Rachel Slade unravels the mystery.
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1 out of 5 stars
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This Book is Tragic for More Than Just its Story
- By John A. Tucker on 10-23-19
By: Rachel Slade
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Destroyer Captain
- Lessons of a First Command
- By: James Stavridis
- Narrated by: Chaz Allen
- Length: 6 hrs and 3 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 55
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This memoir of James Stavridis' two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout the world during his 1993-1995 tour. Drawing on daily journals he kept for the entire period, the author reveals the complex nature of those deployments in a 'real time' context and describes life on board the Barry and liberty ashore for sailors and officers alike.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Great Navy book
- By Richard Giddeon on 03-04-15
By: James Stavridis
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Until the Sea Shall Free Them
- By: Robert Frump
- Narrated by: Luke Smith
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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The men on the SS Marine Electric sailed into a storm in February 1983 not knowing that they would make history - at a great cost in lives. Just three men survived the wreck of the Marine Electric off the shores of Virginia and they found that their struggle had just begun once they got back to shore. Blamed for the wreck, they fought back and broke a code of silence that had covered up sloppy ship inspections for decades and revealed the flaws in old World War II rust buckets that were still at sea long past their functional lifetime.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Interesting, but not a great listen
- By Eric on 02-22-13
By: Robert Frump
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All Hands Down
- The True Story of the Soviet Attack on the USS Scorpion
- By: Kenneth Sewell, Jerome Preisler
- Narrated by: Malcolm Hillgartner
- Length: 7 hrs and 44 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 637
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Forty years ago, in May 1968, the submarine USS Scorpion sank in mysterious circumstances with a loss of 99 lives. The tragedy occurred during the height of the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union.
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1 out of 5 stars
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All Hands Down
- By Stephen on 12-19-08
By: Kenneth Sewell, and others
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Pacific Glory
- World War II Navy, Book 1
- By: P. T. Deutermann
- Narrated by: Dick Hill
- Length: 15 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 946
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Marsh Vincent, Mick McCarty, and Tommy Lewis were inseparable friends during their naval academy years, each man in love with the beautiful, unattainable Glory Hawthorne. Only Tommy wins her heart and marries Glory after graduation. Different skills set the three men on separate paths in the Navy, but they are all forever changed by the Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941.
Glory, now Tommy’s widow, is a tough Navy nurse still grieving her loss while trying to save lives at the Pearl Harbor naval hospital.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Best of PT Deutermann
- By MM on 11-27-11
By: P. T. Deutermann
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Deadliest Sea
- The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
- By: Kalee Thompson
- Narrated by: Suzanne Toren
- Length: 9 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 132
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Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in US Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real-life action and adventure at its finest. The full story of an amazing rescue - where extraordinary courage, ingenuity, will, and technology combined in one of the most remarkable maritime feats ever recorded - has never been told before now. It’s The Perfect Storm meets Deadliest Catch.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Good story line
- By Jayson on 03-31-20
By: Kalee Thompson
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Red November
- Inside the Secret U.S.-Soviet Submarine War
- By: W. Craig Reed
- Narrated by: Tom Weiner
- Length: 12 hrs and 38 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,230
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 1,040
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,037
Red November is filled with hair-raising, behind-the-scenes stories that take you deep beneath the surface and into the action of the Cold War. Few know how close the world has come to annihilation better than the warriors who served America during the tense, 45-year struggle known as the Cold War. Yet for decades, their work has remained shrouded in secrecy.
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4 out of 5 stars
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Blind Man's Bluff meets Cuban Missile Crisis
- By SeaDuck on 08-10-10
By: W. Craig Reed
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Shadow Divers
- The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II
- By: Robert Kurson
- Narrated by: Michael Prichard
- Length: 15 hrs and 37 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 4,791
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 3,002
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Story5 out of 5 stars 2,999
In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat, complete with its crew of 60 men, not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew.
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5 out of 5 stars
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GRIPPING!
- By Douglas on 07-03-04
By: Robert Kurson
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Ninety Percent of Everything
- Inside Shipping, the Invisible Industry That Puts Clothes on Your Back, Gas in Your Car, and Food on Your Plate
- By: Rose George
- Narrated by: Pearl Hewitt
- Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 187
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 168
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Story4 out of 5 stars 168
Rose George, acclaimed chronicler of what we would rather ignore, sails from Rotterdam to Suez to Singapore on ships the length of football fields and the height of Niagara Falls; she patrols the Indian Ocean with an anti-piracy task force; she joins seafaring chaplains and investigates the harm that ships inflict on endangered whales. Sharply informative and entertaining, Ninety Percent of Everything reveals the workings and perils of an unseen world that holds the key to our economy, our environment, and our very civilization.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I was quite mislead by the title.....
- By Steve on 10-20-17
By: Rose George
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The Med
- Dan Lenson Series, Book 1
- By: David Poyer
- Narrated by: David Stifel
- Length: 19 hrs and 49 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 66
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Story4 out of 5 stars 61
Cloaked by the mists of dawn, Task Force 61 - carrying tanks, aircraft, and over 5000 Marines - steams toward Syria with deadly intent. Their mission: rescue 100 hostages from a terrorist stronghold - alive. With realism seldom seen in military fiction, The Med is a magnificent and timely epic that brings the human drama of armed conflict compellingly to life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Vulgar and boring
- By Caspar Blattmann on 01-24-20
By: David Poyer
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Titanic's Last Secrets
- The Further Adventures of Shadow Divers John Chatterton and Richie Kohler
- By: John Chatterton, Richie Kohler, Brad Matsen
- Narrated by: Henry Leyva
- Length: 6 hrs and 5 mins
- Abridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 154
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Why did Titanic sink as quickly as it did? Two of the greatest wreck divers in the world, the heroes of Shadow Divers, solve the mystery of history's greatest wreck. Titanic's Last Secrets peers into the lives of scientists, financiers, adventurers, and industrialists to bring listeners a thrilling and revelatory work of history and contemporary adventure.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Not much diving but interesting story
- By Jonas on 10-17-08
By: John Chatterton, and others
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Where Divers Dare
- The Hunt for the Last U-Boat
- By: Randall Peffer
- Narrated by: James Patrick Cronin
- Length: 9 hrs and 1 min
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 142
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 126
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In the tradition of Shadow Divers, the story of the courageous men who dived on the last sunken U-Boat off the Eastern Seaboard. On April 16, 1944, the tanker SS Pan Pennsylvania was torpedoed and sunk by the U-550. In return the sub was sent to the bottom by three destroyer escorts that were guarding the convoy. For more than 60 years the location of the U-boat's wreck eluded divers. In 2012 a team found it.
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4 out of 5 stars
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great story but at times a little too much...
- By Anthony Karis on 02-28-18
By: Randall Peffer
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Descent into Darkness
- Pearl Harbor, 1941, A Navy Diver's Memoir
- By: Edward C. Raymer
- Narrated by: Peter Johnson
- Length: 7 hrs and 24 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 281
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On December 7, 1941, as the great battleships Arizona, Oklahoma, and Utah lie paralyzed and burning in the aftermath of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. A crack team of U.S. Navy salvage divers headed by Edward C. Raymer are hurriedly flown to Oahu from the mainland. Their two-part orders are direct and straightforward: (1) rescue as many trapped sailors and Marines as possible, and (2) resurrect what remains of America's once mighty pacific fleet. Descent Into Darkness tells their story.
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2 out of 5 stars
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A Massive Disappointment
- By Matthew on 10-14-15
By: Edward C. Raymer
What listeners say about Watertight: How I Survived the Submarine Service Without Losing My Mind
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- L. Fogelquist
- 04-17-23
So Real...
I was a Navy nuke on a nuclear submarine. This book is EXACTLY how I remember it. I was on a slightly newer boat (599) but it was still just like being there... again. Brought back so many memories. I can't wait to recommend it to my nuke buddies. The reader took a minute to grow accustomed to... but once I adjusted, I couldn't imagine it being read any other way.
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- Adam
- 07-07-23
Nice memoir
The narrator is the author and he describes his experiences as a nuclear reactor technician on the submarine Seawolf in the 1980's. You have the feeling he is next to you talking to you about what it was like. A very enjoyable listen and at times educational.
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- Virginia
- 09-05-19
A good listen for any future "nukes"
The narration was slow for my taste (I listened at 1.15 speed) and the story jumped around and repeated itself a bit, but overall this was a great listen!
Although many things have changed in the past few decades, the author does a great job at capturing the spirit of the submarine force and bottling it up for civilians and sailors alike. Super motivated baby nukes can appreciate this taste of the old fleet.
There is profanity. But it's a book by a submariner about his time on submarines. I'm not sure what else you'd expect. In my opinion it was tastefully done, and only when necessary to convey the proper message. I usually hate when authors drop f- bombs and the like. They usually sound so unnatural coming from the narrator- not so in this book. But then again, this book is narrated by the author, who seems to have some experience in the art of using profanities.
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- Justin S.
- 06-09-21
The Real Deal
A fantastic insight to life inside a nuclear sub, and how the Navy used to be. The author is a great story teller. If you are into subs, this is the book for you. A delightful listen!
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- Chris
- 06-06-19
Definitely Worth a Listen
Like sitting on a bar stool next to a welcome stranger regaling you with stories!
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