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The Scrap Iron Flotilla
- By: Mike Carlton
- Narrated by: Mike Carlton
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
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When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean....
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Amazing, completely amazing
- By A. V. James on 27-02-2017
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War Beneath the Sea
- Submarine Conflict During World War II
- By: Peter Padfield
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 25 hrs and 1 min
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This riveting chronicle of submarine warfare is the first to cover all the major submarine campaigns of the war, describing, in detail, the operations of the British, American, Japanese, Italian, and German submarine and anti-submarine forces....
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Informed and Entertaining
- By Nick Xenakis on 01-07-2021
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Stalking the Red Bear
- The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
- By: Peter Sasgen
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....
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Great Story
- By Anonymous User on 13-06-2018
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The Scrap Iron Flotilla
- By: Mike Carlton
- Narrated by: Mike Carlton
- Length: 15 hrs and 17 mins
- Unabridged
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When the Second World War broke out in September 1939, the British asked Australia for help. With some misgivings, the Australian government sent five destroyers to beef up the British Royal Navy in the Mediterranean....
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Batavia
- By: Peter FitzSimons
- Narrated by: Richard Aspel
- Length: 17 hrs
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The story begins in 1629, when the pride of the Dutch East India Company, the Batavia, is on its maiden voyage en route from Amsterdam to the Dutch East Indies, laden down with the greatest treasure to leave Holland....
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Amazing, completely amazing
- By A. V. James on 27-02-2017
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War Beneath the Sea
- Submarine Conflict During World War II
- By: Peter Padfield
- Narrated by: Chris MacDonnell
- Length: 25 hrs and 1 min
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This riveting chronicle of submarine warfare is the first to cover all the major submarine campaigns of the war, describing, in detail, the operations of the British, American, Japanese, Italian, and German submarine and anti-submarine forces....
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Informed and Entertaining
- By Nick Xenakis on 01-07-2021
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Stalking the Red Bear
- The True Story of a U.S. Cold War Submarine's Covert Operations Against the Soviet Union
- By: Peter Sasgen
- Narrated by: Charlie Thurston
- Length: 7 hrs and 4 mins
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Stalking the Red Bear, for the first time ever, describes the action principally from the perspective of a commanding officer of a nuclear submarine during the Cold War....
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Great Story
- By Anonymous User on 13-06-2018
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Thunder Below!
- The USS Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II
- By: Eugene B. Fluckey
- Narrated by: Corey Snow
- Length: 15 hrs and 27 mins
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The Barb sank the greatest tonnage of any American sub in World War II. This is a gripping adventure chock-full of "you-are-there" moments....
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Some of the most fun I’ve had with an audio book
- By Anonymous User on 27-09-2020
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Nimitz at War
- Command Leadership from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay
- By: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrated by: L.J. Ganser
- Length: 14 hrs and 26 mins
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From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two....
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Blind Man's Bluff
- The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage
- By: Sherry Sontag, Christopher Drew
- Narrated by: George Wilson
- Length: 15 hrs and 47 mins
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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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Cold hard submarine history and more!
- By Tessa Button on 24-12-2020
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How to Build an Aircraft Carrier
- The Incredible Story of the Men and Women Who Brought Britain’s Biggest Warship to Life
- By: Chris Terrill
- Narrated by: Adam James
- Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship....
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Fantastic one of the best books on a modern navy.
- By Anonymous User on 26-01-2022
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Captain Cook’s Epic Voyage
- By: Geoffrey Blainey
- Narrated by: John Gregg
- Length: 12 hrs and 49 mins
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In 1768 Captain James Cook and his crew set out on a small British naval vessel in search of a missing continent....
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Captivating!
- By James on 13-01-2021
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Broadsides: The Age of Fighting Sail, 1775-1815
- By: Nathan Miller
- Narrated by: David Rapkin
- Length: 15 hrs and 30 mins
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In the late 18th century, it was widely thought that to be a sailor was little better than to be a slave....
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Rising Sun, Falling Skies
- The Disastrous Java Sea Campaign of World War II
- By: Jeffrey Cox
- Narrated by: Theodore O'Brien
- Length: 22 hrs and 49 mins
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Few events have ever shaken a country in the way that the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor affected the United States. After the devastating attack, Japanese forces continued to overwhelm the Allies....
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Pronunciation of place names
- By Anonymous User on 01-11-2021
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Jack Tar
- Life in Nelson's Navy
- By: Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
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The Royal Navy to which Admiral Lord Nelson sacrificed his life depended on thousands of sailors and marines to man the great wind-powered wooden warships....
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The Fleet at Flood Tide
- America at Total War in the Pacific, 1944-1945
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Pete Larkin
- Length: 23 hrs and 15 mins
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From the seas of the Central Pacific to the shores of Japan itself, The Fleet at Flood Tide is a stirring and deeply humane account of World War II's world-changing finale....
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A Mighty Historical Overview
- By Hamish on 19-05-2017
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Convoy Escort Commander
- A Memoir of the Battle of the Atlantic
- By: Sir Peter Gretton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 8 hrs and 38 mins
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Vice Admiral Sir Peter Gretton's book is a brilliant account of his career in the navy through World War Two: fighting in the Second Battle of the Narvik and guarding convoys in the Mediterranean and the North Atlantic, before being placed in charge of Escort Group B7....
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The Iron Sea
- How the Allies Hunted and Destroyed Hitler's Warships
- By: Simon Read
- Narrated by: Raphael Corkhill
- Length: 10 hrs and 53 mins
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From the acclaimed military history author, this action-packed World War II history describes the Allies' brutal naval engagements and daring harbor raids to destroy the backbone of Hitler's surface fleet....
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Lethal Tides
- Mary Sears and the Marine Scientists Who Helped Win World War II
- By: Catherine Musemeche
- Narrated by: Maggi-Meg Reed
- Length: 11 hrs and 14 mins
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Catherine Musemeche weaves together science, biography, and military history in the compelling story of an unsung woman who had a dramatic effect on the U.S. Navy’s success against Japan in WWII, creating an intelligence-gathering juggernaut based on the new science of oceanography....
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Steel Boat Iron Hearts
- A U-boat Crewman's Life Aboard U-505
- By: Hans Goebeler, John Vanzo
- Narrated by: Norman Dietz
- Length: 11 hrs and 37 mins
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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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Hunter becomes hunted.
- By Anonymous User on 11-06-2020
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The Battle of Midway (Pivotal Moments in American History)
- By: Craig L. Symonds
- Narrated by: James Lurie
- Length: 14 hrs and 47 mins
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There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....
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One for the historians
- By Shane P Tremble on 14-01-2022
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Australian Code Breakers
- Our Top-Secret War with The Kaiser's Reich
- By: James Phelps
- Narrated by: James Saunders
- Length: 8 hrs and 7 mins
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On 11 August 1914, just days after war had been declared, Australian Captain J.T. Richardson boarded a German merchant vessel fleeing Melbourne's Port Phillip and audaciously seized a top-secret naval codebook....
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Heroes denied
- By Anonymous User on 21-02-2022
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Spies of the Deep
- 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
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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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Neptune's Inferno
- The U.S. Navy at Guadalcanal
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Robertson Dean
- Length: 18 hrs and 38 mins
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With The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors and Ship of Ghosts, James D. Hornfischer created essential and enduring narratives about America’s World War II Navy....
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Brilliant!
- By IRB on 08-01-2020
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SBS – Silent Warriors
- The Authorised Wartime History
- By: Saul David
- Narrated by: John Hopkins
- Length: 14 hrs and 38 mins
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From award-winning historian Saul David, the first authorised history of the SBS....
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Amazing book, amazing men!
- By Amazon Customer on 19-01-2022
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Crisis Convoy
- The Story of HX231, a Turning Point in the Battle of the Atlantic
- By: Sir Peter Gretton
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 7 hrs and 22 mins
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In April 1943, Commander Peter Gretton was in charge of escorting a vital Allied trade convoy from New York to Great Britain across the North Atlantic. Over the voyage, the merchant ships of convoy HX231, along with the B7 Escort Group, were shadowed and attacked by German U-boats....
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Red Star Rogue
- By: Kenneth Sewell, Clint Richmond
- Narrated by: Brian Emerson
- Length: 12 hrs and 15 mins
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One of the great secrets of the Cold War, hidden for decades, is revealed at last....
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Fanciful bordering on fiction
- By Red Dirt Nurse on 11-12-2021
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To Rule the Waves
- How the British Navy Changed the Modern World
- By: Arthur Herman
- Narrated by: John Curless
- Length: 29 hrs and 57 mins
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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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Rule Britannia!
- By John William Leahy on 14-07-2019
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Trafalgar
- The Biography of a Battle
- By: Roy Adkins
- Narrated by: John Telfer
- Length: 13 hrs and 6 mins
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This is the true story of the Battle of Trafalgar, Britain's most significant sea battle, as seen through the smoke-hazed gunports of the fighting ships....
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The Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors
- The Extraordinary World War II Story of the U.S. Navy's Finest Hour
- By: James D. Hornfischer
- Narrated by: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 16 hrs and 31 mins
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This is an unforgettable narrative that captures the essence of heroism, the power of loyalty, and the way in which the unadorned truth is more stirring than legend itself....
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Incredible true story excellently told
- By Aussiejed on 05-11-2021
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Victory at Sea
- Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
- By: Paul Kennedy, Ian Marshall - illustrator
- Narrated by: James Cameron Stewart
- Length: 20 hrs and 9 mins
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A sweeping, lavish one-volume history of the rise of American naval power during World War II....