Naval History

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    • A Maritime History of World War II
    • By: Evan Mawdsley
    • Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
    • Length: 28 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 05-26-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 146 ratings
    • Command of the oceans was crucial to winning World War II. In this definitive account, Evan Mawdsley traces events at sea from the first U-boat operations in 1939 to the surrender of Japan....

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    • The Epic Story of the Athenian Navy and the Birth of Democracy
    • By: John R. Hale
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 13 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 06-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 190 ratings
    • The navy created by the people of Athens in ancient Greece was one of the finest fighting forces in the history of the world and the model for all other national navies to come....

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    • Carrier Combat from Pearl Harbor to Okinawa
    • By: Mark E. Stille
    • Narrated by: Christopher Douyard
    • Length: 9 hrs and 4 mins
    • Release date: 11-29-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 25 ratings
    • A detailed and comprehensive study of the carrier formations of the Pacific War, including their origins, development, and key battles from the Coral Sea, through Midway and Guadalcanal to the battle of the Philippine Sea....

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    • Theory Practice and Implications
    • By: Michael A. McDevitt
    • Narrated by: Ian Putnam
    • Length: 9 hrs and 56 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 24 ratings
    • China as a Twenty-First-Century Naval Power focuses on China's navy and how it is being transformed to satisfy the "world class" goal....

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    • The Contest for the Center of the World
    • By: Roger Crowley
    • Narrated by: John Lee
    • Length: 11 hrs and 18 mins
    • Release date: 07-30-08
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,149 ratings
    • Empires of the Sea tells the story of the 50-year world war between Islam and Christianity for the Mediterranean....

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    • The History and Geopolitics of the World's Oceans
    • By: Admiral James Stavridis USN - Ret.
    • Narrated by: Marc Cashman
    • Length: 11 hrs and 1 min
    • Release date: 06-06-17
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 440 ratings
    • From the time of the Greeks and the Persians clashing in the Mediterranean, sea power has determined world power....

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    • War in the Pacific Islands, 1942-1944
    • By: Ian W. Toll
    • Narrated by: P. J. Ochlan
    • Series: The Pacific War Trilogy, Book 2
    • Length: 27 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 09-21-15
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 2,861 ratings
    • The devastation of Pearl Harbor and the American victory at Midway were prelude to a greater challenge: rolling back the vast Japanese Pacific empire island by island....

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    • The Untold Truth About the Most Terrifying Incident in Submarine Naval History and How Putin Used the Tragedy to Ignite a New Cold War
    • By: W. Craig Reed
    • Narrated by: Paul Woodson
    • Length: 9 hrs and 33 mins
    • Release date: 12-29-20
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 75 ratings
    • A decade after the Cold War, a violent explosion sent the Russian submarine Kursk to the bottom of the Barents Sea....

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    • Privateering in the American Revolution
    • By: Eric Jay Dolin
    • Narrated by: Eric Jason Martin
    • Length: 8 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 05-31-22
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 65 ratings
    • The heroic story of the founding of the US Navy during the Revolution has been told many times, yet largely missing from maritime histories of America's first war is the ragtag fleet of private vessels that truly revealed the new nation's character....

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    • How the British Navy Shaped the Modern World
    • By: Arthur Herman
    • Narrated by: John Curless
    • Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,095 ratings
    • The extraordinary story of how the British Royal Navy allowed one nation to rise to a level of power unprecedented in history....

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    • A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505
    • By: Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
    • Release date: 07-14-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 485 ratings
    • Using his own experiences and correspondence with other U-boat crewmen, Hans Goebeler offers rich details about what life was like in the German Navy under Hitler....

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    • The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang
    • By: RAdm. Richard H. O'Kane USN
    • Narrated by: Sean Runnette
    • Length: 18 hrs and 50 mins
    • Release date: 11-10-20
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 410 ratings
    • The story of Tang and her gallant crew ranks with the most amazing of naval history....

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    • The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
    • By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
    • Narrated by: George Wilson
    • Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 08-09-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,514 ratings
    • 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....

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    • The USS Oriskany and Air Wing 16 During the Vietnam War
    • By: Peter Fey
    • Narrated by: John McLain
    • Length: 15 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 05-01-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 35 ratings
    • Strategy and reality collide in Peter Fey's gripping history of aircraft carrier USS Oriskany's three deployments to Vietnam with Carrier Air Wing 16. Its tours coincided with the most dangerous phases of Operation Rolling Thunder, the ill-fated bombing campaign against North Vietnam....

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    • America's Greatest Naval Architect and His Quest to Build the S.S. United States
    • By: Steven Ujifusa
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 13 hrs and 14 mins
    • Release date: 09-17-12
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 48 ratings
    • At the peak of his power, in the 1940s and 1950s, William Francis Gibbs was considered America's best naval architect....

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    • The Guadalcanal-Solomons Campaign, March–October 1943
    • By: Jeffrey Cox
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 31 hrs and 15 mins
    • Release date: 03-02-23
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 81 ratings
    • Thousands of miles from friendly ports, the US Navy had finally managed to complete the capture of Guadalcanal from the Japanese in early 1943. Now the Allies sought to keep the offensive momentum won at such a high cost...

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    • A Maritime History of the World
    • By: Lincoln Paine
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 29 hrs and 41 mins
    • Release date: 01-24-18
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 171 ratings
    • A monumental retelling of world history through the lens of maritime enterprise, revealing in breathtaking depth how people first came into contact with one another by ocean, river, lake and stream....

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    • By: Bob Drury, Tom Clavin
    • Narrated by: Eric Conger
    • Length: 10 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 01-12-07
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 255 ratings
    • December 1944. General MacArthur has vowed to return to the Philippines with the help of the Pacific Fleet. But at the height of the invasion, the ships are blindsided by a typhoon....

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