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The year is 2011, and in South Africa a reactionary coup has established a military government that has begun sinking U.S. and British merchant ships. NATO quickly responds, with only Germany holding back - until Germany starts nuking Poland and eviscerating the French. Now the South Atlantic is a battleground where nuclear-tipped missiles rule - and the only gun worth using is one that seeks and fires from deep beneath the sea. In response, Lieutenant Commander Jeffrey Fuller and the crew of the nuclear submarine USS Challenger are called in to help. Ceramic-hulled and designed for maximum stealth, the Challenger is being sent to South Africa for a mission critical to stopping the war. Together with a team of Navy SEALs and assisted by Boer freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck, Commander Fuller must infiltrate the enemy coast and attack a compound where scientists are putting together the ultimate biological weapon - a violent, deadly microbe that has the potential to wreak global devastation. For Jeffrey Fuller, the operation will take him back to his former life as a SEAL. It's his job to steer the team of operatives to shore penetrate concentric arcs of armaments, minefields, and sensors and destroy the death lab. If the mission works, the bioweapon will be destroyed and shock waves will cripple the South African government. If it goes wrong, fallout will kill thousands of innocent people.

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The Challenger is the weapon of the future, a ceramic-hulled nuclear attack submarine whose electronic eyes and ears are the most advanced ever created. It is commanded by acting captain Jeffrey Fuller, a former SEAL turned submariner whose aggressiveness has made him a rising star - and sometimes scares the hell out of his crew. Fuller's mission is to rescue the Virginia-class fast attack sub Texas, now lying on the bottom of the Atlantic just off the Azores. But the enemy - a newly resurrected and fanatically militaristic Germany - knows where the Texas is, too, and knows the Challenger is coming. It is the Challenger the Germans want, dispatching their own high-tech supersub, the Deutschland, to destroy her. In this war your enemy is a blip on a console hardwired into an integrated nuclear weapons system. Ships are vaporized off the surface of the sea, nuclear shock waves unleash deadly tsunami waves, and smart submarines do battle with smart aircraft sent to hunt them down. For Jeffrey Fuller and the Challenger, for the men on board the Deutschland, the race beneath the ocean's surface across a horrific underwater war zone will demand every bit of courage and skill they can muster just to survive. Before it's over, the Challenger's mission is radically redefined: Fuller, his SEALs, and freedom fighter Ilse Reebeck are sent into Germany itself - to plant a nuke right in the gut of the enemy's power structure.

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It is the day after tomorrow. The lines have been redrawn, and crossed over. And the world is at war again.

The cataclysm began with coordinated reactionary coups in South Africa and Germany. Overnight new enemies emerged to attack U.S. and European shipping lanes, setting off a global conflagration raging in deadly earnest. And the devastating weapons of choice used by the Berlin-Boer Axis are tactical nuclear weapons.

The deep-diving state-of-the-art German boat Voortrekker prowls beneath the ocean's surface, carrying more onboard firepower than many of the world's nations. There is only one weapon in America's arsenal that can match the silent killer: the crippled sub USS Challenger, presently in dry dock in Connecticut. And the Voortrekker is moving into position for the ultimate strike.

Brash, brilliant, and battle-tested, Captain Jeffrey Fuller is the driven naval officer who must oversee the miracle that will put Challenger back into action in forty-eight hours. Then Fuller himself will have to do the impossible, piloting his damaged sub toward a life-and-death confrontation with the Axis leviathan. Fuller has already faced the Voortrekker's ruthless commander before--and unlike so many others, he survived. This time the fight will take place at the ultimate submarine's crush depth, and the prize will be America.

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A new world war has begun. It is the year 2012, and extremists in Germany and South Africa have succeeded in staging simultaneous coups to forge the Berlin-Boer Axis, a cabal determined to take over the world. The key instrument of this war is tactical nuclear weaponry, where a single torpedo or cruise missile can destroy an entire ship or city. And while the war will be fought with high-tech weapons, it will be won or lost by the men who command them...

Commander Jeffrey Fuller is America's newest hero. Awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor for his victories in battle as captain of America's most sophisticated and deadly fast-attack nuclear submarine, the USS Challenger, Fuller takes grim satisfaction in the honor, knowing at what cost it came. But he has barely enough time to receive the decoration before he is tasked with a new mission. An Allied convoy is steaming toward Africa, hoping to establish a beachhead on the continent. The enemy has dispatched its most lethal new submarine, the SMS Admiral von Scheer, to ensure that the convoy never reaches its destination. Fuller's mission is to protect the convoy at all costs.

Then a nearly impossible mission gets even more difficult. The Berlin-Boer Axis is attempting to gain a foothold in South America, a development that would force the United States to fight the war on yet another front, an escalating conflict they can't possibly win. Now Fuller must make a no-win decision: deploy his team of Navy SEALs to South America to destroy the nuclear-armed enemy insurgents, or patrol the depths of the Atlantic seeking threats to the convoy? The failure of either mission will mean defeat for the Allied cause. Stalking his prey beneath the waves where the pressure alone can kill, Commander Jeffrey Fuller knows that while one man's life may be meaningless, one man's death could change the course of the war.

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The next world war rages. With the Allies at a stalemate with the Berlin-Boer Axis, every battle takes on a new significance. But in a conflict fought with billion-dollar technology and campaigns comprising millions of soldiers, the outcome may rest in the hands of a single man ...

Commander Jeffrey Fuller, captain of America's most sophisticated and deadly fast-attack nuclear submarine, the USS Challenger, is accustomed to victory in battle. But for his latest mission he is informed that the only way he can succeed is if he crosses into enemy waters -- without firing a single shot.

His objective: recover a spy. The world of espionage is unknown territory for Fuller. He is ordered to locate an asset, code-named Zeno, who may hold the key to staving off a crippling Axis attack. But this new world is full of lies, feints, and betrayals. In combat, Fuller always knows who his enemy is and how to defeat him. In the shadow world of covert operatives and counterintelligence, the distinction between enemy and ally is far more elusive.

And it only gets more complicated. Steaming toward his target, Fuller and his crew begin to suspect that the spy they have been sent to retrieve may in fact be a subterfuge, a ploy intended to lure the Allies' most dangerous weapon into enemy hands. With the clock ticking down to an invasion that could alter the course of the war, Fuller suspects that his new " friend" could even be a double agent, intent on using Challenger as a weapon against his own allies, destroying the fragile ties binding nations in war.

Fuller is accustomed to the codes of the Silent Service, where loyalty is taken for granted, orders are followed without question, and battles are as precise as a torpedo's firing solution. But now he must adapt to a world where betrayers become the new patriots and lies are the instruments of destruction. With the lives of his crew and the fate of his country hanging in the balance, he will have to risk everything on the word of a man who has, for the last two years, served Fuller's most bitter enemies.

Illustrations: Over 375
ISBN#: 0-9700662-0-1
Ordering Info: Individual copies are available for $35.00 plus $4.00 for shipping and handling. Orders and a check or money order made out to Stan Piet, should be sent to: Martineer Press, 808 North Shamrock Road, Bel Air, MD 21014
Description: " Martin P6M SeaMaster" is the definitive history of the U.S. Navy's last seaplane project to see flight status. This book chronicles the three decades of the Glenn L. Martin Company's seaplane lineage that lead to the post WW II evolution of the High Speed Minelayer seaplane program. Covered are the technical hull achievements along with the politico/military forces that converged to spawn the revolutionary four-jet Marrtin P6M SeaMaster. Full discussion of its design competition, prototype development and crashes, pre-production and production variants along with the details of its weapons systems is featured. Also detailed are the proposed basing concepts and support equipoment developments, follow-on designs, including the nuclear-engine proposals, and a complete review of its untimely demise and termination. The 70,000 word softcover volume features 236 pages in 81/2 x 11 landscape format with 12 pages of photos in full color. Over 375 photos and illustrations with 3-views and an inboard profile foldout complete this fascinating but bittersweet story of the end of the U.S. Navy's reliance on the naval flying boat.

Type: Novel
Name: John J. Gobbell
email: john@johnjgobbell.com
Book Title: THE LAST LIEUTENANT
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 1995 Hardcover
1997 Softcover still in print
Illustrations: Charts (4)
ISBN: 0-312-95838-2
Ordering info: Any major bookstore, Amazon, Tic Can Sailors
Description: www.johnjgobbell.com

The Japanese siege of Bataan and Corregidor during World War II was one of the worst defeats in U.S. military history. Over 130,000 GIs and Filipinos were slaughtered on this oft-forgotten Pacific front. And if it were not for naval intelligence�s success in breaking the JN-25, the Japanese Navy code, Midway Island would have fallen as well, leaving Hawaii and perhaps even the West Coast of the United States for the taking.

THE LAST LIEUTENANT, an unforgettable World War II thriller on part EYE OF THE NEEDLE and one part FROM HERE TO ETERNITY, captures the heart and soul of those who fought to stop worldwide fascism. With the eye for detail of a military historian and the writing skills that have brought comparison to John Le Carr� and James Jones, John J. Gobbell takes his place among today�s finest historical thriller writers.

THE LAST LIEUTENANT is Todd Ingram. Half-starved and beyond exhaustion, Ingram refuses to give up the fight when General Jonathan Wainwright surrenders Corregidor to the Japanese. As artillery blasts The Rock�s beaches and hillsides, Ingram commandeers a thirty-six foot launch with eleven other desperate men. But only Ingram knows the most dangerous threat of all: that a Nazi spy named Walter Radtke lies undiscovered aboard the submarine U.S.S. Wolfish, the last evacuation submarine off the island. The Nazi knows about Chester Nimitz�s plan to trap the Japanese fleet at Midway and needs just thirty seconds and a radio to get a warning dispatch to Yamamoto. Ingram must track down the spy through miles of Japanese-infested waters and stop him before the tide of the war turns irrevocably to the rising sun. Before Ingram can save himself, Helen Duran, the Army nurse he loves, and his men, he must save his country.

Radtke knows that the U.S. navy has cracked the Japanese code and that Commander in Chief Chester Nimitz is planning a trap for the Japanese fleet at Midway. All Radtke needs is a radio and thirty seconds.

Type: Novel
Name: John J. Gobbell
email: john@johnjgobbell.com
Book Title: A CODE FOR TOMORROW
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 1999 hardcover
2002 in print
Illustrations: charts (4) Cast of Characters
ISBN# 0-312-97142-7
Ordering Info: Any major book store, Amazon.com, Tin Can Sailors.
Description: www.johnjgobbell.com

In The Last Lieutenant, Navy Lieutenant Todd Ingram escaped the horrors of Corregidor. Now, in San Francisco, he agonizes over Helen Durand, the Army nurse he left behind, fighting for the resistance on Mindanao. Todd Ingram is befriended by Senior Lieutenant Eduard Dezhnev, the Soviet Naval attache� to the USSR�s consulate there.

But things go badly for the U.S. Navy in the South Pacific�s Solomon Islands and Rear Admiral Raymond Spruance orders Ingram to the destroyer U.S.S. Howell as executive officer. Right back in the fighting, Ingram is caught in two of the epic naval battles off Guadalcanal: the Battle of Cape Esperance and the Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands.

Amidst this, Ingram reaches for Helen but her rescue is hampered by the espionage activities of Dezhnev, a man Ingram grew to trust and admire. With the war at its apex, Todd Ingram puts his life on the line not only for the girl he loves, but for his country, and for a world so perilously close to collapse.

Type: Novel
Name: John J. Gobbell
e-mail john@johnjgobbell.com
Book Title: WHEN DUTY WHISPERS LOW
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 2002 hardcover
2004 softcover (in print)
ISBN#: 0-312-98675-0
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Description: www.johnjgobbell.com

With THE LAST LIEUTENANT and A CODE FOR TOMORROW, John J. Gobbell has firmly established himself as one of today's leading authors of epic war novels. His hero, Todd Ingram, has proven to be one of the most fascinating and endearing characters in the genre. In WHEN DUTY WHISPERS LOW, Lieutenant Commander Ingram faces his biggest challenge to date as his best friend turns against him when the chips are down.

It's 1943 and the U.S. Navy is caught in a fierce battle against the Japanese in the South Pacific. At stake is the Allies newly won Guadalcanal in the Solomon Islands. But Isoroku Yamamoto, Admiral of the Combined Fleet and architect of the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor, desperately wants Guadalcanal back. Calling it �Operation I,� Yamamoto throws everything into the foray, scraping together top-line dive bombers and torpedo planes from all over the Pacific to carry out a series of Pearl-Harbor sized bombing raids in the Solomons.

In response, the Allies introduce the proximity fuse to the fleet a top-secret anti-aircraft detonator that can greatly assist the U.S. Navy in their desperate fight against Japanese dive bombers and torpedo planes. However, in the heat of battle Commander Jerry Landa refuses to use the fuse - and pays the price as his ship, the USS Howell, is torn in half by Japanese �Val� dive bombers. Lieutenant Commander Todd Ingram confronts Landa, questioning his authority as the two become enemies in the midst of battle.

As Ingram and Landa fight to survive �Operation I,� Yamamoto personally directs the raids that will return him to the glory of December 7, 1941 raids that will facilitate the recapture of Guadalcanal and that will cripple the United States Navy forever.

Filled with epic battles, romance, and the brutality of war, John J. Gobbell has crafted a tale that will transport the reader into the South Pacific during World War II--a story as vibrant and stunning as anything he has ever written.

Type: Novel
Name: John J. Gobbell
e-mail john@johnjgobbell.com
Book title: THE NEPTUNE STRATEGY
Publisher: St. Martin's Press
Year: 2004 hardcover (current in print)
Illustrations: Charts (4)
ISBN#: 0-312-31170-2
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Description: www.johnjgobbell.com

Commander Todd Ingram stands on the bridge of his destroyer, U.S.S. Matthew (DD 525) when, suddenly, Japanese dive bombers plunge through the overcast. It�s a coordinated and devastating attack, the ship rocked by massive explosions. Concussions hurtle Ingram overboard, and helplessly, he watches his embattled ship stagger into the evening mist. He�s left behind as the Matthew�s crew desperately fights the fire and the Japanese.

Ingram barely lasts the night, and early the next morning he whoops for joy as a periscope cuts a wake toward him through a glass-smooth sea. But joy turns to horror as the submarine surfaces. The submarine is the I-57 of the Imperial Japanese Navy. Her skipper is Commander Hajime Shimada, recipient of Japan�s highest honor: Order of the Golden Kite. Also aboard the I-57 is Korvettenkapit�n Martin Taubman, of the Kreigsmarine. Until recently, Taubman was the naval attache� in Tokyo. With Hajime and the I-57's crew of forty-nine officers and men, Taubman is enroute home via the U-Boat pens in Lorient, France. Ingram works hard for his keep and endures beatings from his captors. But he�s assured by Taubman, who becomes a chess-playing partner, to obey his captors, to keep his head down and work, that he'll be safely interred in a POW camp in Germany after they arrive in Lorient.

It�s only until the I-57 makes a secret rendezvous with her sistership, the I-49, in Madagascar�s Antongila Bay, that Ingram learns this is not just a simple technical exchange mission between Germany and Japan. The I-57's mission has far more personal, and deadlier ramifications. Worst of all, Ingram discovers Hajime plans to get rid of him before they reach Lorient.

Type: Book
Name: RADM Stuart F. Platt SC, USN (Ret.)
Email: Contact person is duffrey@armamenttide.com
Book/Video name: " The Armament Tide - ReArming America"
Publisher: Granville Island Publishing
Year: 2002
Pages: Hardcover, 209 pages.
Illustrations: Photos, Documents, Charts and Index
ISBN#: 1-894694-17-1
Ordering Info: Ask for it in your local bookstore. You may also order from Amazon.com and at www.armamenttide.com on-line.
Description: The armament tide has begun to flow strongly again in the United States. This book will assist our Nation's leaders and the American people to better understand how to manage the business of rearmament during these flood tides. Drawing on historical anecdote, common business principals and the author's 31 years of military service, the book provides an entertaining and educational look at the complexities of arming the American military.

Type: Book
Name: Don Landauer
Email: Dontahoe@oakweb.com (summer) Donkauai@msn.com (winter)
Book/Video name: PEARL: The History of the US Navy in Pearl Harbor
Publisher: Flying Cloud Press
Year: 1999, 3rd printing 2001
Pages: 430
Illustrations: twentyone
ISBN#: 0-933185-06-5
Ordering Info: Flying Cloud Press, Box 624002, S Lake Tahoe CA 96154 or USS Arizona Memorial, #1 USS Arizona Mem'l Place, Honolulu HI 96818. Price $21.95 + $2.50 S& H. Ten percent discount for USN & USMC veterans.
Description: PEARL shows how the original natives came to Hawaii. Then it describes how European and American explorers and seamen came and affected Hawaiian culture. Then it documents how and why and when the United States Navy came, and subsequently how the two cultures related to each other. You Marines may be interested in the fact that the first ship (a captured British ship) into the Honolulu/Pearl Harbor area (in 1814)was commanded by a US Marine! Later the first US Marine detachment in 1906 deployed to the Honolulu area described Waikiki as a, " damned mosquito infested swamp" . The latest edition includes the Ehime Maru incident and the attack on New York and the Pentagon. The author was in the US Navy in 1945,6 and taught aboard 14 ships from 1990 to 1995 as a PACE instructor.

Type: Video
Name: Bob Rositzke
Email: bobr@empirevideo.com
Book/Video name: " Henry Rodgers Ship Model Collection"
Publisher: Empire Video, Inc.
Year: 1999
Pages:
Illustrations: video
ISBN#:
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Description: " Henry Rodgers Ship Model Collection" : Video: A close-up look at one of the largest and most valuable dockyard model collections in the world. These models, constructed from the mid-17th century through the late 19th century, are exact replicas of the British warships that won and preserved an empire. VHS Length: 17:00

Type: Video
Name: Bob Rositzke
Email: bobr@empirevideo.com
Book/Video name: " To Lead and to Serve"
Publisher: Empire Video, Inc.
Year: 1995
Pages:
Illustrations: Video
ISBN#:
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Description: An inside look at life at the U.S. Naval Academy. Follow Midshipmen as they embark on the voyage of a lifetime. Length: 19:41

Type: Video
Name: Bob Rositzke
Email: bobr@empirevideo.com
Book/Video name: 100 Years and Forward
Publisher: Empire Video, Inc.
Year: 1998
Pages:
Illustrations: Video
ISBN#:
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Description: Collection of stories about four major World War II naval campaigns and the Cold War. This video collection is part of a permanent display at the U.S. Naval Academy Museum. VHS 36:00.

Type: Book
Name: Edward J. Marolda
Email: marolda.edward@nhc.navy.mil
Book/Video name: Carrier Operations, Vol 4 in series, The Illustrated History of the Vietnam War
Publisher: Bantam
Year: 1987
Pages: 158
Illustrations: Color and B/W photos, maps
ISBN#: 0-553-34348-3
Ordering Info: Out of print available at large libraries
Description: Yankee Station and Dixie Station . . . just two map coordinates in the South China Sea. But for much of the Vietnam War they were home to thousands of sailors on board the aircraft carriers of the U. S. Seventh Fleet. It was from these offshore oases that U. S. aircraft waged the heaviest bombing campaign in history, sending a rain of fire against the north, providing air support for U. S. troops in the south, and dispatching search and rescue missions to snatch grounded pilots from enemy territory.

Type: Book
Name: Bernard D. Cole
Email: coleb@ndu.edu
Book/Video name: The Great Wall at Sea: China's Navy Enters the 21st Century
Publisher: U.S. Naval Institute Press
Year: 2001
Pages: 288
Illustrations: 23, plus maps
ISBN#: 1-55750-239-0
Ordering Info: Available at bookstores, online, or direct: Customer Service, USNI Operations Center, 2062 Generals Highway, Annapolis MD 21401. 800-233-8764 or 410-224-3378. www.NavalInstitute.org
Description: China is now building a large modern navy to assure its status as Asia's predominant power. This major new study provides timely, authoritative information about China's developing navy and its quest for power. Dr. Cole examines China's navy in detail, its organization as well as its submarines, ships and airplanes. He also discusses its personnel and China's future plans for its navy. He asserts that Beijing's navy is focused on specific, limited goals, but that the reunification of Taiwan is one of those goals....and one that will involve the United States.

Type: Book
Name: James Tritten
Email: jtritten121@comcast.net
Book/Video name: A Doctrine Reader: The Navies of United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, and Spain
Publisher: Naval War College Press
Year: 1995
Pages: 151
Illustrations: None
ISBN#:
Ordering Info: Out of print
Description: Case studies of naval doctrine in UK, France, Spain, Italy and role of doctrine in paradigm shifts and revolutions in military affairs.

Type: Book
Name: James Tritten
Email: jtritten121@comcast.net
Book/Video name: Our New National Security Strategy: America Promises to Come Back
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Year: 1992
Pages: 196
Illustrations: None
ISBN#: 0275943577
Ordering Info:
Description: This book is an analysis of President Bush's Regional Defense Strategy first unveiled in Aspen, Colorado, on August 2, 1990. This strategy involves a mix of active, reserve, and reconstitutable forces, and General Colin Powell's Base Force. The new regional defense strategy is based upon the 25 percent budget cut negotiated with Congress, a greatly depleted threat from the former Soviet Union, and a new international security environment that assumes two-year's warning of a European-centered global war.

Type: Book
Name: James Tritten
Email: jtritten121@comcast.net
Book/Video name: Reconstituting America's Defense: The New U.S. National Security Strategy
Publisher: Praeger Publishers
Year: 1992
Pages: 178
Illustrations: None
ISBN#: 027594249X
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Description: This book analyzes President Bush's new Regional Defense Strategy--the master plan for guiding the transformation of U.S. defense policy in the post-Cold War era. This book provides the first comprehensive assessment of the new strategy, analyzes the consequences for U.S. forces and alliance relations, and examines the political difficulties of transforming Bush's vision into reality. It explains major changes in U.S. defense doctrine and strategy, force and command structure, future programming requirements, and how such change has been managed.

Type: Book
Name: James Tritten
Email: jtritten121@comcast.net
Book/Video name: Soviet Naval Forces and Nuclear Warfare: Weapons, Employment, and Policy
Publisher: Westview Press
Year: 1986
Pages: 282
Illustrations: None
ISBN#: 0813372062
Ordering Info: Out of print
Description: Interpretation of what the Soviets said they will do in the event of a nuclear war based on formal content analysis of the writings of Admiral Gorshkov and past Soviet ministers of defense and heads of the Politburo. Comparative hardware and exercise analysis. Constructs 3 possible scenarios. Examination of Soviet views on deterrence, strategic goals and missions of the fleet, nuclear targeting, SLOC disruption, tactical nuclear war at sea. Implications for Western defense strategy and arms control.

Type: Book
Name: Thomas G. Mahnken
Email: tgmahnken@aol.com
Book/Video name: Uncovering Ways of War: U.S. Intelligence and Foreign Military Innovation, 1918-1941
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Year: 2002
Pages: 190
Illustrations:
ISBN#: 0-8014-3986-8
Ordering Info:
Description: Using formerly classified sources - in particular, the

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: Undefeated
Publisher: Tryon Publishing Company
Year: 1996 (3rd printing, 2001)
Pages: 71
Illustrations: 8
ISBN#: 1-884824-19-6
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price $14.00.
Description: The story of USS Constitution's victorious service in the War of 1812.

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: A Most Fortunate Ship
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Year: 1997 (revised edition 6th printing (soft cover), 2003)
Pages: 422
Illustrations: 54 + 5 maps
ISBN#: 1-59114-513-9
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price: #26.95.
Description: The complete history of USS Constitution (" Old Ironsides" ) from her authorization in 1794 to her bicentennial in 1997. The first edition (1980) received a George Washington Honor Medal from the Freedoms Foundation. This new edition received the 1997 Robert G. Albion/ James Madison Award for Naval History from the National Maritime Historical Society and won the Naval History Center's Constitution Bicentennial Book Competition Prize.

Type: Video
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: USS Constitution: Living The Legend
Publisher: Anchors Away Productions
Year: 1997
Run Time: 55 minutes
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price $19.95.
Description: Describes the ship's unique construction features and takes her through her sailing in July 1997, the first in 116 years.

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: Creating A Legend
Publisher: Tryon Publishing Company
Year: 1997 (2nd printing, 2001)
Pages: 125
Illustrations: 18
ISBN#: 1-884824-20-X
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price: $18.00.
Description: A detailed description of the designing, construction, and launching of USS Constitution.

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: The USS Constitution's Finest Fight
Publisher: Nautical and Aviation Publishing Company
Year: 2000
Pages: 103
Illustrations: 4 + 1 map
ISBN#: 1-877853-60-7
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price: $22.95.
Description: The edited journal of Acting Chaplain Assheton Y. Humphreys describing Constitution's final war cruise of 1815, including her defeat of HMS Cyane and HMS Levant and her narrow escape from a British squadron..

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonnier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: Constitution Close Up
Publisher: Timonier Publications
Year: 2002
Pages: 110+
Illustrations: 45+
ISBN#: none
Ordering Info: Timonier Publishing Company, 70 Devil's Ridge, Tryon, NC, 28782. Price $30.00 (includes S& H).
Description: A working monograph detailing, from primary sources, Constitution's original and changing appearance during her frontline service (1798-1855) for the benefit of artists and modellers. Includes changing paint schemes, altered gun batteries, rigging variations, etc., etc. New information is added as acquired, hence the " working" adjective, and each copy is individually prepared when ordered.

Type: Book
Name: Ty Martin
Email: timonier@teleplex.net
Book/Video Name: A Signal Honor
Publisher: Tryon Publishing Company
Year: 2003
Pages: 112
Illustrations: 23
ISBN#: 1-884824-31-5
Ordering Info: www.ussconstitutionmuseum.org. Price $20.00.
Description: A collection of anecdotes about individual crew members of USS Constitution from captain to boy embedded in a discussion of their organization and operation.