In the Event of a Water LandingIn the Event of a Water Landing tells for the first time the full stories of the Bermuda Sky Queen and Sovereign of the Skies rescues, the only two completely successful open water ditchings in Commercial Aviation history. Using the voices of the passengers, flight crew, and the Cutter’s crewmen an amazing tale unfolds. Their vivid memories, interspersed with contemporary news reports, flesh out the unemotional entries from the cutter’s logbook and official investigations. No one flying, before or since, ever experienced such harrowing rescues. Learn more!

 

 

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Choke Points Stretching from the treacherous shores of Iraq to inner circles of power in Washington, DC, Choke Points leads the reader deep into the heart of the War on Terror and the real threats of attack on the U.S.

This is the first book of the Fletcher Saga that stretches from the tumultuous Colonial times to the ever-dangerous present. Learn more!

 

 

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Bloodstained Sea - The U.S. Coast Guard in the Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1944, is about the Coast Guard's role in guarding the convoys of merchant ships carrying vital materiel to our allies during WWII. It tells the powerful and inspiring story of the men of the U.S. Coast Guard, who—normally dedicated to saving lives and rescuing ships in distress—were locked in one of the longest and bloodiest running sea battles in history. Bloodstained Sea plunges you into the thick of the battle, re-creating some of the most desperate encounters, heroic rescues, and harrowing missions of the Second World War. Learn more!



Sinbad of the Coast Guard is the adventurous, true story of Sinbad, mascot of the Coast Guard Cutter Campbell during World War II, whose exploits became legend. Although famous to thousands of people in many nations, Sinbad was happiest at sea, treading the decks of the sleek Campbell, where he was treated as just another member of the crew. He slept and ate his chow with the men and even had his own battle station. Battles and hurricanes never dulled his love of standing on the heaving deck with spray breaking over his wiry body. To Coast Guardsmen on the Campbell and all over the world he was real hero. Learn more!