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  • Splashdown

    NASA, the Navy, & Space Flight Recovery

    by Don Blair ...
    This is the first-ever publication detailing the Navy’s role in manned spacecraft recovery from 1961 to 1975, from Alan Shepherd’s initial suborbital mission to the Apollo-Soyuz flight, which inaugurated the first space collaboration between the U.S. and the Soviet Union. Splashdown: NASA, the Navy, and Space Flight Recovery takes the reader through a detailed explanation of how recovery forces on ... Read more

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • Eyes on Target

    Inside Stories from the Brotherhood of the U.S. Navy SEALs

    by Scott McEwen, Richard Miniter ...
    Told through the eyes of current and former Navy SEALs, EYES ON TARGET is an inside account of some of the most harrowing missions in American history-including the mission to kill Osama bin Laden and the mission that wasn't, the deadly attack on the US diplomatic outpost in Benghazi where a retired SEAL sniper with a small team held off one hundred terrorists while his repeated radio calls for ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Tirpitz

    The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship

    by Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander ...
    The authors of Bismarck deliver "a very good account of the Tirpitz and of the naval war in the North Atlantic and Norwegian waters" during World War II ( NYMAS Review).After the Royal Navy's bloody high seas campaign to kill the mighty Bismarck, the Allies were left with an uncomfortable truth—the German behemoth had a twin sister. Slightly larger than her sibling, the Tirpitz was equally capable ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aircraft Electricity and Electronics, Sixth Edition

    by Thomas K. Eismin ...
    Complete coverage of modern electrical and electronics systems for aircraftFully updated for the latest technological advances, this comprehensive text describes design concepts, FAA certification requirements, and aerospace-quality maintenance and repair techniques for aircraft electrical and electronics systems. The materials contained in this book will benefit designers, engineers, and ... Read more

    $37.99 USD

  • The Pacific War Papers

    by Donald M. Goldstein; Katherine V. Dillon ...
    The Pacific War Papers is an annotated collection of extremely rare Japanese primary-source documents, translated into English, that provides an invalu-able resource for historians and students of World War II. These naval and diplomatic documents come from the collection of the late Gordon Prange, the eminent scholar of Pearl Harbor, who obtained them from Japanese naval leaders while working for ... Read more

    $22.95 USD

  • No Room for Mistakes

    British and Allied Submarine Warfare, 1939–1940

    by Geirr H. Haarr ...
    No Room for Mistakes is a thoroughly researched account of British and Allied submarine warfare in north European waters at the beginning of World War II. Haarr has compiled research from a wide range of primary sources to create one of the most readable, comprehensive accounts of early war submarine activities. With detailed, accurate maps and many previously unpublished photographs, No Room for ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Dive Palau

    The Shipwrecks

    by Rod Macdonald ...
    Recounted with his usual level of meticulous historical research, Rod weaves an easily readable account of the build-up to and implementation of Operation Desecrate 1 – the raid undertaken to destroy Japanese ships and aircraft in the lagoons of Palau. He uses his intimate knowledge of shipwrecks to reveal in glorious detail each of the 20 major Japanese WWII shipwrecks lying at the bottom of the ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Topics in Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 4

    Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference on Structural Dynamics, 2012

    Edited by T. Simmermacher, Scott Cogan, L.G. Horta, R. Barthorpe ...
    Series series Springer Nature Proceedings excluding Computer Science
    Topics in Model Validation and Uncertainty Quantification, Volume 4, Proceedings of the 30th IMAC, A Conference and Exposition on Structural Dynamics, 2012, the fourth volume of six from the Conference, brings together 19 contributions to this important area of research and engineering. The collection presents early findings and case studies on fundamental and applied aspects of Structural ... Read more

    $188.99 USD

  • HMS Gloucester

    The Untold Story

    by Ken Otter ...
    On 22 May 1941 the cruiser HMS Gloucester (The Fighting 'G') was sunk by aircraft of the Luftwaffe during the Battle of Crete. Of her crew of 807 men, only 83 survived to come home at the end of the War in 1945. It is unknown how many men went down with the ship and how many died in the sea clinging to rafts and flotsam during the many hours before the survivors were finally rescued by boats ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Aerospace Propulsion

    by T. W. Lee, Peter Belobaba, Jonathan Cooper, Allan Seabridge ...
    Series series Aerospace Series
    Aerospace propulsion devices embody some of the most advanced technologies, ranging from materials, fluid control, and heat transfer and combustion. In order to maximize the performance, sophisticated testing and computer simulation tools are developed and used.Aerospace Propulsion comprehensively covers the mechanics and thermal-fluid aspects of aerospace propulsion, starting from the fundamental ... Read more

    $90.00 USD

  • Saturn from Cassini-Huygens

    Edited by Michele Dougherty, Larry Esposito, Stamatios Krimigis ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)
    This book is one of two volumes meant to capture, to the extent practical, the scienti?c legacy of the Cassini-Huygens prime mission, a landmark in the history of planetary exploration. As the most ambitious and interdisciplinary planetary exploration mission ?own to date, it has extended our knowledge of the Saturn system to levels of detail at least an order of magnitude beyond that gained from ... Read more

    $242.09 USD

  • Linear Isentropic Oscillations of Stars

    Theoretical Foundations

    by Paul Smeyers, Tim Van Hoolst ...
    Series series Physics and Astronomy (R0)

    $188.09 USD