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          Maritime Currents: History and Archaeology

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          I Am Fighting for the Union

          I Am Fighting for the Union

          The Civil War Letters of Naval Officer Henry Willis Wells

          by Henry Willis Wells

          Edited by Robert M. Browning Jr.

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817361051

          Pub Date: April 2023

          Format: Paperback

          An insightful, detailed, and invaluable account of daily life in the Union Navy

          Hard Aground

          Hard Aground

          The Wreck of the USS Tennessee and the Rise of the US Navy

          by Andrew C. A. Jampoler

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817361082

          Pub Date: March 2023

          Format: Paperback

          Three intertwined stories that reveal the challenges faced by the US Navy in its evolution between the Civil War and the First World War

          Clotilda

          Clotilda

          The History and Archaeology of the Last Slave Ship

          by James P. Delgado, Deborah E. Marx, Kyle Lent, Joseph Grinnan and Alexander DeCaro

          Foreword by Lisa D. Jones and Stacye Hathorn

          Price: $39.95

          ISBN: 9780817321512

          Pub Date: March 2023

          Format: Hardcover

          Documents the maritime historical research and archaeological fieldwork used to identify the wreck of the notorious schooner Clotilda
           
          Valor and Courage

          Valor and Courage

          The Story of the USS Block Island Escort Carriers in World War II

          by Benjamin J. Hruska

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817360696

          Pub Date: February 2022

          Format: Paperback

          Recounts the stories of the USS Block Island CVE 21 and CVE 106 and their crews, many of whom served on both ships in the Atlantic and Pacific theatres
          On Wide Seas

          On Wide Seas

          The US Navy in the Jacksonian Era

          by Claude Berube

          Price: $54.95

          ISBN: 9780817321079

          Pub Date: December 2021

          Format: Hardcover

          A meticulously researched account of how the US Navy evolved between the War of 1812 and the Civil War

           
          Emergency Deep

          Emergency Deep

          Cold War Missions of a Submarine Commander

          by Alfred Scott McLaren

          Price: $34.95

          ISBN: 9780817320928

          Pub Date: May 2021

          Format: Hardcover

          Conveys in dramatic detail the high-risk, covert operations of a nuclear attack submarine during the zenith of the Cold War
           
          Cayman’s 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail

          Cayman's 1794 Wreck of the Ten Sail

          Peace, War, and Peril in the Caribbean

          by Margaret E. Leshikar-Denton

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817359652

          Pub Date: December 2019

          Format: Paperback

          The greatest shipwreck disaster in the history of the Cayman Islands
          Octopus Crowd

          Octopus Crowd

          Maritime History and the Business of Australian Pearling in Its Schooner Age

          by Stephen Mullins

          Price: $54.95

          ISBN: 9780817320249

          Pub Date: August 2019

          Format: Hardcover

          A detailed study of the origins and demise of schooner-based pearling in Australia
          To My Dearest Wife, Lide

          To My Dearest Wife, Lide

          Letters from George B. Gideon Jr. during Commodore Perry’s Expedition to Japan, 1853–1855

          by M. Patrick Sauer and David A. Ranzan

          Price: $49.95

          ISBN: 9780817320232

          Pub Date: July 2019

          Format: Hardcover

          A personal account of Commodore Perry’s landmark expedition to Japan and life in the antebellum navy
          Standing Watch

          Standing Watch

          American Submarine Veterans Remember the Cold War Era

          by Jonathan Li-Chung Leung

          Price: $29.95

          ISBN: 9780817359577

          Pub Date: April 2019

          Format: Paperback

          The first book to capture and preserve the inside story of the exclusive brotherhood that manned the front lines of the Cold War
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