United States Navy


The Port Chicago 50: Disaster, Mutiny, and the Fight for Civil Rights
Intercept: The U.S. Navy’s Intelligence-Gathering Ships (“Cold War Spy Fleet”) 1961–1969, 1985–1989
US Navy Battleships 1895–1908: The Great White Fleet and the Beginning of US Global Naval Power (New Vanguard #286)
War in the Shallows: U.S. Navy Coastal and Riverine Warfare in Vietnam
The King of Confidence: A Tale of Utopian Dreamers, Frontier Schemers, True Believers, False Prophets, and the Murder of an American Monarch
The Unknown Battle of Midway: The Destruction of the American Torpedo Squadrons (The Yale Library of Military History)
Victory at Sea: Naval Power and the Transformation of the Global Order in World War II
The Limits of Air Power: The American Bombing of North Vietnam
End of the Saga: The Maritime Evacuation of South Vietnam and Cambodia (The U.S. Navy and the Vietnam War, #9)
Middlesex
Warship 1996
Castles of Steel by Robert K. MassieDreadnought by Robert K. MassieCatastrophe 1914 by Max HastingsThe First World War by John KeeganThe First World War by Hew Strachan
Dreadnought Era
45 books — 13 voters

Jeffrey Eugenides
After the Second World War, San Francisco was the main point of re-entry for sailors returning from the Pacific. Out at sea, many of these sailors had picked up amatory habits that were frowned upon back on dry land. So these sailors stayed in San Francisco . . .
Jeffrey Eugenides, Middlesex