Naval Life

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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: 14-07-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 72 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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    • A Naval Life
    • By: Thomas Alexander Hughes
    • Narrated by: David Drummond
    • Length: 17 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 27-12-2016
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 7 ratings
    • William Halsey was the most famous naval officer of World War II. His fearlessness in carrier raids against Japan, his steely resolve at Guadalcanal, and his impulsive blunder....

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    • Engineer of Power (The Jewish Lives Series)
    • By: Marc Wortman
    • Narrated by: Paul Bellantoni
    • Series: The Jewish Lives
    • Length: 9 hrs and 28 mins
    • Release date: 28-06-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • A riveting exploration of the brilliant, combative, and controversial “Father of the Nuclear Navy”....

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    • From Forecastle to Quarter-Deck
    • By: John D. Whidden
    • Narrated by: Tom Perkins
    • Length: 9 hrs and 34 mins
    • Release date: 19-06-2018
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Orphaned at five, nothing held Whidden back from embarking on sea life seven years later. Ocean Life in the Old Sailing Ship Days records a series of real events from his childhood impressions of rough and ready seamen to his thrilling and brutal experiences of war....

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    • Life in Nelson's Navy
    • By: Lesley Adkins, Roy Adkins
    • Narrated by: John Telfer
    • Length: 16 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 11-02-2021
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 8 ratings
    • 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 Romance and the Reality of Life Among the Pirates
    • By: David Cordingly
    • Narrated by: Don Hagen
    • Length: 10 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 29-11-2011
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 12 ratings
    • As he explodes many accepted pirate myths (i.e. "walking the plank" is pure fiction), Cordingly replaces them with a truth that is more complex and often bloodier....

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    • 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
    • Release date: 20-01-2022
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 5 ratings
    • Hear the enthralling story of the HMS Queen Elizabeth, the Royal Navy's largest ever warship....

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    • The Life of Germany’s Highest Scoring U-Boat Commander
    • By: Lawrence Paterson
    • Narrated by: Bruce Mann
    • Length: 10 hrs and 44 mins
    • Release date: 14-03-2023
    • Language: English
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    • Otto Kretschmer was only in combat from September 1939 until March 1941 but was Germany's highest-scoring U-boat commander, sinking forty-seven ships. This definitive work details his personal story and the political backdrop from his earliest days....

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    • From High School in Saigon to His Return There as a Wounded Naval Aviator, Vietnam Shaped His Life
    • By: Larry Duthie
    • Narrated by: Elio Agostini
    • Length: 9 hrs and 48 mins
    • Release date: 24-05-2021
    • Language: English
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    • You are with the author when he ejects from his burning Navy jet onto a karst ridge near Hanoi. What follows in this meticulously researched memoir is an account of one of the most implausible and heroic rescues of the air-war - and the aftermath.

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    • The Life and Death of Germany's Last Super Battleship
    • By: Niklas Zetterling, Michael Tamelander
    • Narrated by: Pete Larkin
    • Length: 12 hrs and 20 mins
    • Release date: 29-03-2013
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • While the Kriegsmarine's surface fleet, restricted for much of the period after 1919, was relatively small in comparison to the Royal Navy, it did possess a number of potent battleships....

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    • The Life of Vice Admiral Willis A. Lee Jr.
    • By: Paul Stillwell
    • Narrated by: Walter Dixon
    • Length: 11 hrs and 47 mins
    • Release date: 21-12-2021
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 3 ratings
    • Battleship Commander explores Lee's life from boyhood in Kentucky through his eventual service as commander of the fast battleships from 1942 to 1945. Said to be down to earth, modest, forgiving, friendly, and with a wry sense of humor, Lee eschewed the media....

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    • Life Aboard the USS Sterett, 1939-1945
    • By: C. Raymond Calhoun
    • Narrated by: Norman Dietz
    • Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins
    • Release date: 27-02-2018
    • Language: English
    • 3 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • More than 800 sailors served aboard the Sterett during her hazardous and demanding duties in World War II. This is the story of those men and their beloved ship, recorded by a junior officer who served on the famous destroyer from her commissioning in 1939 to April 1943....

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    • Coast Guard's Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death
    • By: Martha Laguardia-Kotite, Tom Ridge
    • Narrated by: Jim Cooper, Martha Laguardia-Kotite
    • Length: 10 hrs and 3 mins
    • Release date: 04-01-2019
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • So Others May Live: Coast Guard Rescue Swimmers: Saving Lives, Defying Death is the award-winning untold story of the US Coast Guard's quiet but resolute rescue swimmers....

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    • Life and Leadership Lessons from the SEAL Teams
    • By: Rick Kaiser
    • Narrated by: Rick Kaiser
    • Length: 4 hrs and 40 mins
    • Release date: 27-08-2024
    • Language: English
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    • A compelling look at US Navy SEALs through a true-to-life lens focused on the triumphs and challenges of the elite warriors of the Special Forces community. Master Chief (SEAL) Rick Kaiser (Ret.) captures over forty-five years of events in and around the SEAL Teams.

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    • By: Frederick Marryat
    • Narrated by: Frederick Davidson
    • Length: 17 hrs and 38 mins
    • Release date: 06-11-2006
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • In this seminal story of naval life during the Napoleonic wars, Frederick Marryat's young hero embarks upon a life at sea and finds it to be a rough school indeed....

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    • The Life and Death of an Aircraft Carrier (Warship Battles of World War Two)
    • By: John Winton
    • Narrated by: Alex Wyndham
    • Length: 11 hrs and 19 mins
    • Release date: 25-04-2023
    • Language: English
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    • On 8th June 1940, the British aircraft carrier HMS Glorious and her two destroyer escorts HMS Ardent and Acasta were sighted by the German battle cruiser Scharnhorst and her sister ship Gneisenau. In a brutal gun battle, all British ships were sunk and more than 1500 men lost their lives....

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    • The Life and Loss of "Sweet P"
    • By: David R. Leick
    • Narrated by: John Chancer
    • Length: 12 hrs and 13 mins
    • Release date: 24-10-2024
    • Language: English
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    • An in-depth history of the US Navy’s light aircraft carrier the USS Princeton and its operational exploits in the Pacific Theater of World War II.

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    • The Lives, Careers, and Battles of Stephen Decatur, Oliver Hazard Perry, David Farragut, David Dixon Porter, and George Dewey
    • By: Charles River Editors
    • Narrated by: Gregory T. Luzitano
    • Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
    • Release date: 20-02-2020
    • Language: English
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    • Americans had few things to celebrate during the Barbary Wars or the War of 1812, but one of them was the growing prestige of the US Navy, and among those who were instrumental in its development, few were as influential as Stephen Decatur, Jr....

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