Craig L. Symonds Audio Books

There are few moments in American history in which the course of events tipped so suddenly and so dramatically as at the Battle of Midway....

From America's preeminent naval historian, the first full-length portrait in over fifty years of the man who won the war in the Pacific in World War Two.

Abraham Lincoln began his presidency admitting that he knew "but little of ships," but he quickly came to preside over the largest national armada to that time, not eclipsed until World War I.

The United States Navy has played an essential role both in resolving conflicts and in peacekeeping throughout the entire history of the United States.

This fast-paced narrative traces the emergence of the United States Navy as a global power from its birth during the American Revolution through to its current superpower status.

Seventy years ago, more than 6000 Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across the English Channel to a 50-mile-wide strip of the Normandy coast in German-occupied France.

From thunderous broadsides traded between wooden sailing ships on Lake Erie...