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Topic Archives:Naval History

Book Review: Gunfire Around the Gulf: The Last Major Naval Campaign of the Civil War (by Jack D. Coombe) : ACW

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/22/2016

Book Review: FORGOTTEN TRAGEDY: THE SINKING OF HMT ROHNA (Carlton Jackson) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

Book Review: ADMIRAL DAVID GLASGOW FARRAGUT: THE CIVIL WAR YEARS (by Chester G. Hearn) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

Book Review: THE MONITOR: THE STORY OF THE LEGENDARY CIVIL WAR IRONCLAD AND THE MAN WHOSE INVENTION CHANGED THE COURSE OF HISTORY (James Tertius deKay) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

Book Review: HISTORY MAKERS / INTERVIEWS BY FRED SCHULTZ

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20016/11/2024

Book Review: DISASTER ON THE MISSISSIPPI: THE SULTANA EXPLOSION, APRIL 27, 1865 (Gene Eric Salecker) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

Book Review: YACHTING’S GOLDEN AGE: 1880-1905 (by Ed Holm) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/23/2016

Book Review: THE USS ESSEX AND THE BIRTH OF THE AMERICAN NAVY (by Frances Diane Robotti and James Vescovi) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/24/2016

Book Review: Raphael Semmes: The Philosophical Mariner (Warren F. Spencer) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/24/2016

Book Review: SHIP OF GOLD IN THE DEEP BLUE SEA (by Gary Kinder) : AH

by HistoryNet Staff8/11/20018/24/2016

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