James Dugan

Historical account of the attempt by pre-WWII fascist Italy to establish a colonial empire using the independent nation of Ethiopia. National Socialist (Nazi) fascist Italy, under egotistical Mussolini, actually attacked and overran Ethiopia in the fall of 1935, cementing the relationship of the two National Socialist regimes, Germany and Italy.

This book offers a historical view of diving, including contributions by Jacques-Yves Cousteau and edited by James Dugan, Cousteau's literary associate. Written in 1965, it features pictures of the SCUBA equipment of the time, as well as the pioneers of SCUBA and their exploits, including the raising of the Union ironclad gunboat "Cairo," an account of an attempt to blow up the harbor of Malta during WWII, a trip to the North Pole aboard the submarine "Sargo," and the story of an Israeli underwater archaeologist searching for shipwrecks from biblical times.

Surveys the corrupt conditions of Georgian England in 1797 and chronicles the British fleet's "sit down strike" at Portsmouth and Spithead - the largest naval insurrection in history.

The Great Eastern, launched in 1858, was the largest iron ship ever built. Designed to carry more passengers than the Queen Mary, and too large for the Suez Canal of her day, it was this ship that laid the Atlantic cable. Yet, this ship was also believed to be haunted by a jinx that killed, maimed, or financially ruined hundreds of men. The story of this ship encompasses geniuses, charlatans, crackpots, and celebrities, from the ill-fated I. K. Brunel, considered the greatest engineer of his day, to Louis Napoleon of France, who was thrown for heavy financial losses by the erratic vessel.