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by Terry L. Baldridge
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In 1865, as the Civil War was drawing to a close, plans were underway in Boston for a railroad construction project to begin in Greenup County, Kentucky. Eventually the Eastern Kentucky Railway Company would extend its main track through two more counties, Carter and Lawrence. Spanning just 36 miles...
by Kevin W. Hecteman
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2010
In 1862, the Central Pacific Railroad was founded and began building eastward from Sacramento as part of the transcontinental railroad. This required a shop capable of keeping the railroad�s equipment in running order. So in 1867, in the swamps just north of town, the Sacramento shops were born. For...
by Jeremy Clarkson
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2009
Jeremy Clarkson is once more Driven to Distraction.
Brace yourself. Clarkson's back.
And he'd like to tell you what he thinks about some of the most awe-inspiring, earth-shatteringly fast and jaw-droppingly cool cars in the world (oh, and a few irredeemable disasters...).
Or he...
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage
The Titanic's First-Class Passengers and Their World
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2012
Gilded Lives, Fatal Voyage takes us behind the paneled doors of the Titanic’s elegant private suites to present compelling, memorable portraits of her most notable passengers.
The Titanic has often been called "An exquisite microcosm of the Edwardian era,” but until now, her story...
Lusitania
Triumph, Tragedy, and the End of the Edwardian Age
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2015
On the 100th Anniversary of its sinking, King and Wilson tell the story of the Lusitania's glamorous passengers and the torpedo that ended an era and prompted the US entry into World War I.
Lusitania: She was a ship of dreams, carrying millionaires and aristocrats, actresses and impresarios, writers...
by Valerie Smart
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2001
Language: English
Release Date: August 6, 2001
During World War II, there was a famed B-17 aircraft named Hell's Angels. The men who worked together to keep the plane flying over Hitler's occupied Europe, those of the U.S. Army Air Force's 303rd Bombardment Group, were the first in the 8th Air Force to complete twenty-five missions from their base...
Shipwrecks of the Delaware Coast
Tales of Pirates, Squalls & Treasure
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2010
Under the hot summer sun, vacationers stroll the Rehoboth Beach boardwalk, chewing saltwater taffy and listening to the gulls raucous cackle. Few realize that under the sparkling water rests a graveyard. Horrific nor'easters, treacherous shoals and simple human error caused the demise of countless ships,...
And Now the Shipping Forecast
A Tide of History Around Our Shores
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
This affectionate look at the revered British radio broadcast surveys the history and lore of the four-times daily announcements of weather reports and forecasts for the seas around the coasts of the British Isles. Written from the perspective of an announcer who read the on-air forecast for nearly...
by Robert Gandt
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Winner of the 2011 Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, The Twilight Warriors is the engrossing, page-turning saga of a tightly knit band of naval aviators who are thrust into the final—and most brutal—battle of the Pacific war during World War II: Okinawa.
April 1945. The end...
Deadliest Sea
The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2010
Deadliest Sea by Kalee Thompson is the spellbinding true story of the greatest rescue in U.S. Coast Guard history. Recounting the tragic sinking of the fishing trawler, Alaska Ranger, in the Bering Sea and its remarkable aftermath in March 2008, Deadliest Sea is real life action and adventure at its...
Auto Biography
A Classic Car, an Outlaw Motorhead, and 57 Years of the American Dream
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2014
A brilliant blend of Shop Class as Soulcraft and The Orchid Thief, Earl Swift's wise, funny, and captivating Auto Biography follows an outlaw auto dealer as he struggles to save a rusted '57 Chevy—a car that has already passed through twelve pairs of hands before his—while financial ruin, government...
The Corvette in the Barn: More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
More Great Stories of Automotive Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2010
It's every car-guy's fantasy-to casually peer into a long-forgotten garage or barn or warehouse and find the car he has searched for his whole life. Corvette in the Barn is a collection of true, often amazing, stories and essays about car collectors and enthusiasts who have discovered unusual and...
by Don Danenberg
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
Now MBI Publishing Company’s two top-selling boating titles—written by one of the world’s top authorities on the subject of antique wooden boat restoration—are available in one volume. In this comprehensive restoration guide for owners and enthusiasts of wooden powerboats of all makes and...
RMS Olympic
Titanic's Sister
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2015
The definitive study on this famous and highly successful White Star linerSitting around a dining room table in 1907, the owners of the White Star Line discussed their competition to the newly-built Cunard liners, Lusitania and Mauretania. From that smoke-filled room came the first designs of three...