Mixed Bag, all nautical.
These include, in no order,
''Attack and Sink:The Battle of the Atlantic Summer 1941'' Bernard Edwards. Brick Tower Press. ( great slim volume on the epic fight between SC42 and the MARKGRAF Wolfpack of 9 Sept, 1941 ).
''Wolf of the Deep: Raphael Semmes and the Notorious Confederate Raider CSS Alabama''. Stephen Fox, Vintage Press ( The merging -point between sail, steam, wood and iron, and the submarine during the American Civil War, and the first naval battles between the US and the Japanese Empire nearly 75 years before Pearl Harbor ).
''Sea of Gray: The Around The World Odyssey Of The Confederate Raider Shenandoah'' Tom Chaffin, Farrar, Straus , and Giroux. The last to surrender, a global odyssey.
''In The Heart Of The Sea: The Tragedy Of the Whaleship ESSEX'': Nathan Philbrick, Penguin Books. ( The source of Melvilles ''Moby Dick'', the sinking of the ESSEX by a whale east of Easter Island in 1819 remains one of the great tales of survival, cannibalism , and the Nantucket whaling industry ).
''Sea of Glory:Four Chaplains and the USS Dorchester'', Ken Wales, David Poling. ( The sinking of USS Dorchester, an American troop ship, by U-223 on the morning of February 03,1943 and the personal sacrifice of the chaplains who went down with their ship ).
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