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Presents a comprehensive history of the United States Navy in European waters during World War I. This volume examines diplomatic policies, cabinet decisions, logistics, the home front, support systems, and shipbuilding to illustrate the complexity and enormity of America's naval participation in World War I.

Examining excavated underwater ""treasure sites"" and terrestrial pirate lairs found off the coast of Madagascar, throughout the Caribbean, and within the United States, this book explores the romanticized ""Golden Age of Piracy,"" and the ""gentleman pirate"" Jean Lafitte.

Offers accounts of the wartime experiences of veterans who graduated from the US Merchant Marine Academy - the largest supplier of ships' officers in WWII. This book covers such subjects as Liberty ships, U-Boats, the Battle of the Atlantic, D-Day, the Philippines, the vast Pacific, and the Murmansk Run.

Passamaquoddy Bay lies between Maine and New Brunswick at the mouth of the St Croix River. Rich in beaver pelts, fish, and timber, the area was a famous smuggling center after the American Revolution. This book examines the reasons for smuggling in this area. It interprets smuggling as provoked by government efforts to regulate borders.

A nautical history of the Cayman Islands, describing how an intrepid group of islanders flourished on the sea. It follows the tracks of the sea turtles and mariners who hunted them, the exploits of pirates and the development of schooners, and goes underwater to explore the sites of the wrecks.