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Books like The Terrible Hours

Explore 24 books like The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas — a handpicked selection united by Submarines, Emergency Management, Sea, and Vehicles.

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Titles selected for shared themes, overlapping readership, and similar literary appeal.

A Good and Favorable Wind The Unusual Story of a Submarine Under Sail and Its Cautionary Lessons for the Modern Navy

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Themes: Submarines • Sea • Vehicles

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Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

Choosing War Presidential Decisions in the Maine, Lusitania, and Panay Incidents

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Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

River Gunboats An Illustrated Encyclopedia

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Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

Super Destroyers From the Torpedo Boat Era to the Dominant Surface Warship of Today

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Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

Wartime Standard Ships

Nick Robins

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

The Windfall Battleships Agincourt, Canada, Erin, Eagle and the Balkan and Latin-American Arms Races

Aidan Dodson

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

A Hard Fought Ship The Story of HMS Venomous

John A. Rodgaard

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

Battleship Bismarck A Design and Operational History

William H. Garzke

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#10

Nautilus to Columbia 70 Years of the US Navy’s Nuclear Submarines

James C. Goodall

Themes: Submarines • Ships & Shipbuilding • Naval

#11

The Longest Patrol A U-Boat Gunner’s War

Gregory L. Owen

Themes: Submarines • Ships & Shipbuilding • Naval

#12

Soviet Cruisers 1917–45 From the October Revolution to World War II

Alexander Hill

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#13

The Grand Fleet 1914-19 The Royal Navy in the First World War

Daniel G. Ridley-Kitts

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#14

Modelling Sailing Men-of-war An Illustrated Step-by-step Guide

Philip Reed

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#15

British Destroyers A-I and Tribal Classes

Les Brown

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#16

The Mary Rose Story

John Christopher

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#17

Warships of the Soviet Fleets, 1939-1945 Volume II:Escorts and Smaller Fighting Ships

Przemyslaw Budzbon

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#18

Dark Waters An Insider’s Account of the NR-1, the Cold War’s Undercover Nuclear Sub

Lee Vyborny

Themes: Submarines • Ships & Shipbuilding • Naval

#19

Deadliest Sea The Untold Story Behind the Greatest Rescue in Coast Guard History

Kalee Thompson

Themes: Emergency Management • Ships & Shipbuilding • Naval

#20

Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers 1945–91

Mark Stille

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Naval

#21

US Navy Frigates of the Cold War

Mark Stille

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Naval

#22

A Short History of Naval and Marine Engineering

Edgar C. Smith

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Ships & Shipbuilding

#23

China’s Rising Sea Power The PLA Navy’s Submarine Challenge

Peter Howarth

Themes: Submarines • Ships & Shipbuilding • Naval

#24

On the Warpath in the Pacific Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers

Clark G. Reynolds

Themes: Sea • Vehicles • Naval

If The Terrible Hours by Peter Maas is on your shelf, these 24 titles belong there too. Connected by Submarines, Emergency Management, Sea and selected for literary and thematic overlap. Featuring work by David L. Johnston, Michael S. Sanders, Douglas Carl Peifer, Roger Branfill-Cook, and others.