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1) Sailing true north: ten admirals and the voyage of character

Author

Stavridis, James

Publisher

Penguin Press

Pub. Date

2019.

Physical Desc

xix, 312 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

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The distinguished admiral and former Supreme Allied Commander of NATO presents a meditation on leadership and character as demonstrated by the lives of 10 illustrious naval commanders, from Themistoclese and Drake to Nelson and Hopper.

2) Grace Hopper: queen of computer code

Author

Wallmark, Laurie

Series

People Who Shaped Our World

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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Grace Hopper's passion for science and math led her to defy expectations. She joined the Navy during World War II, and wrote programs for the Mark I, one of the first computers ever built. Hopper coined the term "computer bug" and taught computers to "speak English." Wallmark brings Hopper's incredible accomplishments to life.

3) Moonstruck

Author

Grant, Susan

Series

A tale of the borderlands volume 1

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook

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Peace was for little girls

And Coalition starship admiral Brit Bandar was one tough woman. A mere intergalactic treaty could never get her to trust the Drakken Horde. There was too much bad blood between the Coalition and the Horde and, for intensely personal reasons, Brit wasn't sure that she was through spilling it! But now a peaceful accord had made Finn Rorkken, a notorious Drakken rogue, second in command on her starship,

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4) Grace Hopper

Author

Fields, Jan

Series

Women in science and technology

Publisher

Rourke Educational Media

Pub. Date

[2020]

Physical Desc

24 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cm.

Language

English

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Grace Hopper was one of the world's first computer programmers. Grace believed there was always more than one way to solve a problem. That belief inspired her lifelong work to bring computers to everyone. Grace asked the questions and helped solve the problems that transformed computers from giant machines that filled rooms to objects you can hold in your hand.

5) Grace Hopper: admiral of the cyber sea

Author

Williams, Kathleen Broome

Series

Library of naval biography

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Pub. Date

[2004]

Physical Desc

xvii, 240 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.

Language

English

6) Into the fire

Author

Moon, Elizabeth

Series

Vatta's peace volume 2

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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"As Admiral Kylara Vatta learned after she and a ship full of strangers were marooned on an inhospitable arctic island, the secrets she and her makeshift crew uncovered were ones someone was ready to kill to keep hidden. Now, the existence of the mysterious arctic base has been uncovered, but much of the organization behind it still lurks in the shadows. And it is up to the intrepid Ky to force the perpetrators into the light, and finally uncover...

7) Hong Kong: a Jake Grafton novel

Author

Coonts, Stephen

Series

Jake Grafton novels volume 8
A Jake Grafton novel volume 8

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle, Large Print

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Admiral Jake Grafton takes his wife along on an assignment to Hong Kong, where they encounter a situation ready to explode, following a political murder and the closure of a foreign bank by the communist government.

8) Yamamoto: the man who planned Pearl Harbor

Author

Hoyt, Edwin P

Publisher

McGraw-Hill

Pub. Date

[1990]

Physical Desc

vi, 271 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

9) America: a Jake Grafton novel

Author

Coonts, Stephen

Series

Jake Grafton novels volume 9
A Jake Grafton novel volume 9

Pub. Date

2001.

Language

English

Formats

Book, eBook, Kindle

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New York Times bestselling author Stephen Coonts brings the action close to home in this fast-paced military thriller, America

Dispatched on a trial run, NASA's SuperAegis satellite has been created as the foundation of an international antimissle defense system. But moments after dispatch, it vanishes. Rear Admiral Jake Grafton fears something worse than a grave malfunction—he suspects sabotage...
The USS America—the

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10) Canaris

Author

Höhne, Heinz

Publisher

Doubleday

Pub. Date

1979.

Edition

First edition.

Physical Desc

xv, 703 pages, 12 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

11) The Admiral: the memoirs of Albert Gleaves, USN

Author

Gleaves, Albert

Publisher

Hope Pub. House

Pub. Date

[1985]

Physical Desc

xii, 286 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Language

English

12) The World War II 100: a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War

Author

Langer, Howard

Publisher

New Page Books

Pub. Date

[2002]

Physical Desc

333 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Language

English

13) Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the creation of the atomic bomb

Author

Christman, Albert B

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Pub. Date

[1998]

Physical Desc

xii, 305 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

14) The second most powerful man in the world: the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's chief of staff

Author

O'Brien, Phillips Payson

Publisher

Dutton

Pub. Date

[2019]

Physical Desc

viii, 531 pages, 16 unnumbered leaves of unnumbered plates : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

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"The life of Franklin Roosevelt's most trusted and powerful advisor, Admiral William D. Leahy, Chief of Staff to the Commander-in-Chief"--

15) Sir Francis Drake and the foundation of a world empire

Author

Gallagher, Jim

Series

Explorers of new worlds

Publisher

Chelsea House Publishers

Pub. Date

2001.

Physical Desc

63 pages : illustrations (some color), maps ; 24 cm.

Language

English

16) Beaufort of the Admiralty: the life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857

Author

Friendly, Alfred

Publisher

Random House

Pub. Date

[1977]

Edition

First American edition.

Physical Desc

362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Language

English

17) Nimitz

Author

Potter, E. B

Publisher

Naval Institute Press

Pub. Date

[1976]

Physical Desc

xiii, 507 pages, 10 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 27 cm

Language

English

18) FitzRoy: the remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast

Author

Gribbin, John

Publisher

Yale University Press

Pub. Date

2004.

Physical Desc

xii, 336 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm

Language

English

19) 1492

Author

Johnston, Mary

Publisher

Little, Brown, and Co

Pub. Date

1922.

Physical Desc

3 preliminary leaves, 315 pages ; 20 cm

Language

English

20) Sea wolf: a biography of John D. Bulkeley, USN

Author

Breuer, William B

Publisher

Presidio

Pub. Date

[1989]

Physical Desc

x, 318 pages 12 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm

Language

English

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1) Sailing true north: ten admirals and the voyage of character

2) Grace Hopper: queen of computer code

3) Moonstruck

4) Grace Hopper

5) Grace Hopper: admiral of the cyber sea

6) Into the fire

7) Hong Kong: a Jake Grafton novel

8) Yamamoto: the man who planned Pearl Harbor

9) America: a Jake Grafton novel

10) Canaris

11) The Admiral: the memoirs of Albert Gleaves, USN

12) The World War II 100: a ranking of the most influential figures of the Second World War

13) Target Hiroshima: Deak Parsons and the creation of the atomic bomb

14) The second most powerful man in the world: the life of Admiral William D. Leahy, Roosevelt's chief of staff

15) Sir Francis Drake and the foundation of a world empire

16) Beaufort of the Admiralty: the life of Sir Francis Beaufort, 1774-1857

17) Nimitz

18) FitzRoy: the remarkable story of Darwin's captain and the invention of the weather forecast

19) 1492

20) Sea wolf: a biography of John D. Bulkeley, USN

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