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Author
Series
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
"In this seventh book of the series, Thomas Kydd has his own command at last: the brig-sloop Teazer! But Kydd must race the clock to make her battle ready to defend Malta against Barbary pirates and the French who are frantically trying to rescue the remnants of their army in the Levant. Then peace is suddenly declared, and the young captain finds himself ashore on half pay. To make ends meet, he agrees to transport convicts to Australia. Little does...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
"As the captain of a useful frigate, Kydd is claimed by the Leeward Islands station, exchanging the harsh situation in South America for the warmth and delights of the Caribbean. It's a sea change for Kydd, who revisits places and people that figured in his time as a young seaman. Some are nostalgic and pleasing, while others bring challenges of a personal nature. In Europe, Napoleon is triumphant on land, but so far away in the Caribbean, Kydd and...
Author
Series
Honor volume 14
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
"Capt. Peter Wake, USN, is a veteran of Office of Naval Intelligence operations inside Spanish-occupied Cuba, who describes with vivid detail his experiences as a naval liaison ashore with the Cuban and U.S. armies in the jungles, hospitals, headquarters, and battlefields in the 1898 campaign to capture Santiago de Cuba from the Spanish"--
Pub. Date
[2002]
Language
English
Description
Director James Cameron returns to the high seas to tell the tale and search for the truth of the German legend "Bismarck". With revolutionary production techniques and high-tech remotely operated vihicles, Cameron lights up this dark world and gives us the first glimpse inside the Bismarck in more than 60 years.
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
"Lieutenant Thomas Kydd takes his rightful place upon the quarterdeck, but the decisions he must make will test him to the limit! The sixth book in the Kydd series finds Thomas Kydd aboard Tenacious, part of a small squadron commanded by Vice Admiral Horatio Nelson. Its mission is to scour the Mediterranean and locate Napoleon and his army. Kydd's newly fired ambition leads him to volunteer for shore service in the capture of Minorca. Later, he faces...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the period leading up to the War of 1812 from the perspective of brig commander Bliven Putnam, who disrupts British merchant shipping before an encounter with an old nemesis leads to a reunion.
"Commander Bliven Putnam faces the biggest military conflict between the United States and Britain since the Revolution in this high seas adventure by award-winning historian James L. Haley. At the onset of the War of 1812, the British control the...
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventure volume 24
Pub. Date
[2018]
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
72) The bounty
Pub. Date
[2000]
Language
English
Description
A remake of the story that claims to expose "the truth behind the legend" of the Bounty mutiny. In doing so it provides a stirring and dramatic portrait of the delicately balanced friendship between Christian and Bligh.
73) A sea of gold
Author
Series
Kydd novels volume 21
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
1809. After his heroic actions during the retreat to Corunna, Captain Sir Thomas Kydd is the toast of London society. Here he falls in with the legendary frigate captain, Lord Thomas Cochrane. So begins a relationship, professional and personal, that will be unlike any that Kydd has known: a relationship that will lead him, almost simultaneously, to first glory, then ruin. The French fleet is massing in the Basque Roads in a near impregnatable position....
Author
Series
Alan Lewrie naval adventure volume 16
Pub. Date
2010.
Edition
First edition.
Language
English
Description
When war breaks out again in May of 1803, Capt. Alan Lewrie has fresh orders, a new frigate, and a chance to punish and pursue the French, but it's no longer for Duty or King and Country--now it's personal.
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