admirals

During World War II, Franklin D. Roosevelt seized presidential powers like no president since Abraham Lincoln. FDR assumed the role of strategist-in-chief and though surrounded by star-studded generals and admirals, he made clear who was in command. The Roosevelt who emerges from these pages is a wartime chess master, guiding America's armed forces to a victory that was anything but foreordained.

A brief biography of Queen Victoria's great-grandson who was a well-known British naval leader in World War II, Viceroy of India, and subsequently an important statesman and educator before his death at the hands of Irish terrorists in 1979.

Profiles the lives and achievements of the only four men to become five-star American admirals--Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--focusing on their role in defeating the Japanese during World War II.

As missiles are fired upon the White House, Rear Admiral Jake Grafton struggles to find a group of CIA agents believed to have hijacked the U.S.'s latest advance in nuclear submarines and foil their plans to destroy American power and influence throughout the world.

Documents the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, and examines the life of Chester Nimitz, fleet admiral and leader of the campaign in the Central Pacific during World War II.

Describes the life and times of the well-known naval hero of the American Revolution, John Paul Jones, who is called the father of the United States Navy.