Sea Adventures War

Catherine Cook, unclaimed granddaughter of the great explorer James, Cook is on her way to America to re-connect with her mother’s family when fate intervenes and thrusts her into ultimate peril. All of her life, Kate has yearned to go to sea and to command a sailing ship in the Royal navy…an impossible dream for a young woman in 1797.

Whoever controls the Solomon Islands controls the vital sea lanes between the United States and Australia. When Imperial Japan seizes Tulagi and begins constructing a strategic airfield on Guadalcanal, the balance of the Pacific War hangs in the balance. America must strike first—or risk losing the entire theater. As a massive invasion force prepares for the first major U.S. offensive of the war, Lieutenant Commander Art Turner and the decorated crew of USS Bull Shark are assigned a dangerous covert mission deep behind enemy lines.

The marines have seized control of the Japanese airfield on Guadalcanal, but this isn’t the end of their troubles…it’s only the beginning. The Japanese bomb them by day, attack from the forbidding darkness of the jungles by night, and their ships, like hungry sharks, prowl just offshore after the sun goes down. Whoever controls the canal controls the war. The Japanese know this, so they concoct a plan to send men and equipment ashore using fast destroyers—ships that can come by night and leave before the Cactus Airforce or Admiral Fletcher’s carrier planes can stop them.

Pellew: Boarders Away Gerald Pellew is fourteen years old, the son of a dead admiral, and newly turned over to the Ardent when she sails straight into a trap off Ushant. Out-gunned by the combined fleets of France and Spain, the ship strikes her colours, and Gerry is marched into a French prison to rot. What follows is hunger, fever, and the slow dying of the men around him, but a boy who has been well taught does not lie down. When a winter storm tears open the prison wall, Gerry and a small powder-boy slip into the flooded river with nothing but a hidden coat and a promise to keep. They ...

Captain Carlisle hails from Virginia, a loyal colony of the British Crown. As the clouds of war gather, Carlisle's small frigate is ordered to Toulon on a reconnaissance mission. If battling the winter weather in the Gulf of Lions is not a sufficient challenge, Carlisle must also juggle the delicate diplomatic issues in this period of pre-war tension while contending with an increasingly belligerent French frigate. But Carlisle has additional problems unique to his colonial origins.

Juan de Santiago is not only a billionaire coca grower, he is also a deranged revolutionary; the commander of the most powerful private army in South America. Backed by power-hungry rogue nations who supply him with the latest weaponry, de Santiago devises a plan that will dishearten the American antidrug effort and make him El Jefe once and for all.

Having inspired a classic film and Broadway play, The Caine Mutiny is Herman Wouk's boldly dramatic, brilliantly entertaining novel of life—and mutiny—on a Navy warship in the Pacific theater. It was immediately embraced upon its original publication as one of the first serious works of American fiction to grapple with the moral complexities and the human consequences of the Second World War. In the intervening half century, this gripping story has become a perennial favorite, selling millions throughout the world, and claiming the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.

1794.Captain Nicholas Cruwys brings the frigate Topaze home to England from the Mediterranean. By spring she must be ready for the Channel Fleet. France is starving, a great grain convoy is crossing the Atlantic to feed her, and Lord Howe means to meet the fleet that will come out of Brest to protect it. What follows is a season of hard sea service: a new company to be made into a fighting one, cruises on the French coast, and scouting work ahead of the fleet as the two great forces search for one another in the open Atlantic — until a sudden vacancy in the line of battle hands Cruwys a ...

Based on the remarkable true story of Irish convict John Graham, WHITE SPIRIT is an epic historical adventure set in 19th Century Australia. After escaping from the notorious Moreton Bay Penal Settlement, Graham finds refuge with the Kabi, a tribe of Aborigines who eventually accept him as one of their own. Attempts to recapture Graham are orchestrated by a variety of contrasting characters working for the all-pervasive British Empire. They include Moreton Bay's tyrannical, opium-addicted commandant Lord Cheetham, the dashing yet warlike Lieutenant Hogan, native tracker Barega and the penal...

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Commodore Isaac Donland has fought the sea and the enemy both — but never at the same time, until now. Fresh from an Atlantic crossing, Captain Isaac Donland barely has time to embrace his wife and daughter before the Admiralty summons him to London. Within days he is given a broad pendant and a small squadron — his own sixty-four gun Hampshire, a frigate, and two sloops — with orders to strangle the flow of timber, iron, and guns feeding the French shipyards at Lorient. What begins as a patrol soon becomes something far more dangerous. A cutting-out expedition ends in bloody retreat....

He left home as a boy, Now, he is becoming a man. Forced from his home after the tragic death of his parents, Jack Horner is now a pressed man in the service of the Royal Navy. While captain and crew are focused on hunting an elusive rogue privateer, Jack is forced to learn the ropes and navigate life aboard a king's ship. Though he grows accustomed to the hardships of sea life, he never forgets the cold night in Boston that robbed him of everything he held dear. Hard winds and high seas shape the boy into a man of the sea. From the drudgery and toil of the gun decks, to the dangerous glory...

A powerful, layered weaving of myth, prose and pure imagination – The Ships of Merior is book two in the epic fantasy series, The Wars of Light and Shadow. The second volume of Janny Wurts's incomparable series following Arithon and Lysaer, two brothers forced to take opposite sides in a...

IN HARM’S WAY The year is 1802. The peace is a rumor. The sea is a killing ground. Captain Robert Harrison sails from Portsmouth in the thirty-two gun frigate H.M.S. Falcon with orders that are simple and merciless. Report to the Leeward Islands Station. Patrol from Cayenne to Trinidad. Destroy all enemy shipping bearing French or Spanish colors, naval vessels and merchantmen alike. What follows is sixty days on the most dangerous coast in the Atlantic world. The coast of the Spanish Main offers no mercy and asks for none. Fever takes men without warning and without remedy. The rivers are...

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 ...

The second installment of the gripping naval saga by award-winning historian James L. Haley, featuring Commander Bliven Putnam, chronicling the build up to the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain after the Revolution—the War of 1812. At the opening of the War of...

This anthology of short stories takes the listener to Connecticut, Boston, Guam, Savannah, Houston, San Francisco, Oregon, and overseas. Valiant tank crews, creative techs, brave officers, plucky drone operators, bold medics, cunning pararescue troops, determined ASHUR and Trident pilots, and daring militia units wage war along every coastline in the US.

It’s 2037, and Alex is one more disobeyed order away from kissing his naval career goodbye. He used to be high speed, the kind of officer on the fast track to submarine command. Then he threw it all away trying to save a few civilian lives from his glory hungry commanding officer.

A fun, exciting read somewhere between Joe Abercrombie and Terry Pratchett. Winner of the Literary Titan Book Award for Epic Fantasy. Winner of the International Firebird Book Award. Winner of the Global Book Award. The island kingdom of Ironbay is under siege from Estovia’s warships. Can a street urchin and a tiny band of royal marines break the siege and free Ironbay, or will Estovia’s oppressive, power hungry tyrant, Emperor Solokov, crush their Ironborn home? Ironborn is fast paced, epic fantasy with heart. You’ll laugh out loud, you’ll cry, and you’ll be on the edge of your ...

Rebellion Brews in Boston Harbor In The Boston Affair, the fifth gripping installment of The Patriot Sailor series, the tides of revolution surge as tea spills and loyalties fracture. When a covert mission entangles our daring sailor in the heart of the Boston Tea Party, secrets surface that could sink the cause. Or ignite it. History collides with high-stakes adventure. Will he navigate betrayal and stormy alliances, or be swept under by the rising tide of war?