During World War II, the U.S. Navy swiftly expanded to include an array of vessels, from smaller yachts and fishing boats bought early in the war for patrol work to fast, modern commercial ships built
"During World War I, the American Merchant Marine meant dangerous duty. This book provides the first complete overview of the American Merchant Marine during World War I. Detailed accounts cover the e
During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic eras, France was plagued by war and crop failures and was desperately in need of supplies. Legally and illegally, French privateers and cruisers took ca
After the attack on Pearl Harbor, American sailors of the Asiatic Fleet were abandoned by Washington and left to conduct a war on their own, isolated from the rest of the U.S. naval forces. Their fate
The text is a list of all of the Liberty Ships, cargo vessels that were built by the Emergency Shipbuilding Program during World War II. It offers each ship’s namesake, type, operator, etc. in great d
Eisner Award winning authors Greg Rucka and J.H. Williams III team up to show a new side of Gotham through the eyes of Batwoman. As one of the first openly gay superheroes in the DC Universe, Kate Kan
A new era begins as Batwoman is unleashed on Gotham City! Marked by the blood-red bat emblem, Kate Kane is a soldier fighting her own private war - one that began years ago and haunts her every waking
"Sam Williams kept a personal log and later reworked it into this never-before-published manuscript. Supplemented by other research, excerpts of the official logbook of the F.H. Moore, and from three