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Admiral Arleigh Burke 1 review
E. B. Potter
US Naval Institute Press, 2005
Famous in WWI, He Rose Higher After the War
During World War II a lot of good men rose to the top from relatively low levels when the war started. Arleigh Burke started the war as a commander on shore duty at the Washington Navy Yard, also known as the Naval Gun Factory. His superior officer refused to let him go.
Eventually he got orders to go to the South Pacific, it had been twenty years since he had graduated from the Naval ...
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Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy2 reviews
Clark G. Reynolds
US Naval Institute Press, 1991
An excellent biography of an under recognized individual
Reynolds provides a thorough and complete biography of a man who made major contributions to the Allied success in the Second World War. Towers, an early advocate of air power, struggled for recognition and promotion between the wars. His administrative ability during the war was largely responsible for the fact that the right aircraft were produced and delivered. This book is not about ...
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Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke: The Story of a Fighting Sailor 1 review
Ken Jones, Hubert, Jr. Kelley
US Naval Institute Press, 2001
Send this title to Iron Bottom Sound!
Arleigh Burke might have been a great Destroyerman, but there has got to be a better book than this one. It is not written as history, it seems more like a book written by a journalist weaving back and forth between boring background trivia of an antiquated style (it details how ship commanders met their future wives at Annapolis) and an inordinate amount of time promoting Commodore Burke as ...
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Admiral Lord Howe (Library of Naval Biography) 2 reviews
David Syrett
US Naval Institute Press, 2005
The First Real Biography of Howe
Entering the Royal Navy in 1739 at the age of 13, Admiral Lord Howe remained in the Navy until his death in 1799 -- sixty years of service. His career spanned four wars, including the American Revolution where he attempted to negeotiate an end to the revolution and when that proved impossible he commanded the British navy during much of the war. ==His was a lifetime of service and triumph. He was ...
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Adak: The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 58610 reviews
Andrew C. A. Jampoler
US Naval Institute Press, 2003
These guys are heroes.....
As the son of a Navy P-3 (and sea plane) pilot and former CO of VP-9, this book hit very close to home for me. The story is well-written and extremely emotional, at least to anyone who has ever had a loved one fly in harm's way. When you're a kid, and your Dad flies Navy planes for a living, you never really consider the risks and dangers. This true story demonstrates what these men faced on a ...
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Admiral David Glasgow Farragut: The Civil War Years
Chester G. Hearn
US Naval Institute Press, 1998
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32-Gun Frigate Essex (Anatomy of the Ship)3 reviews
Portia Takakjian
US Naval Institute Press, 2005
32 Gun Frigate Essex (Anatomy of the Ship Series)
Portia Takajian's research and knowledge of ship design are a great aid in understanding the way this ship functioned. The details in this book are fantastic, and well presented. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in ships of the early Federal Navy.
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The $5 Billion Misunderstanding: The Collapse of the Navy's A-12 Stealth Bomber Program 5 reviews
James P. Stevenson
US Naval Institute Press, 2001
A "must read" book !
I was a test engineer for a sub-contractor on this "black hole" program . During my two year stay on the program , I certainly saw no "waste and fraud" nor did a good friend of mine at GD who was very closely associated with the program. For those two years we put in very long hours 6 to 7 days a week and had all of our "state of the art" test equipment up and running and certified ahead of ...
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The Admirals' Advantage: U.S. Navy Operational Intelligence in World War II And the Cold War2 reviews
Christopher A. Ford, David A. Rosenberg, ...
US Naval Institute Press, 2005
Intelligence in the Cold War as Leading to the Future
The stories of intelligence gathered from Signal Intelligence in World War II are well known. The development of ULTRA and MAGIC gave the Allied Admirals a significant advantage in the battles of the Atlantic and of course at Midway. This was really the start of intelligence moving from a dead end career to a position of some prominence in the Navy world.
This book gives a bit about the ...
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Air Assault from the Sea
Patrick H. F. Allen
US Naval Institute Press, 2001
This lavishly illustrated photo tribute captures the international scope of modern day American and European amphibious helicopter operations. The over-sized, full-color format and lively narrative draw the reader onto the ships and into the air of the versatile amphibious fleet. The HMS Ocean and the U.S. Navy's Wasp -class LHD USS Bataan , as well as the Dutch Rotterdam are just a few of the new helicopter assault ships covered together ...
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The Aircraft Carrier Victorious (Anatomy of the Ship)2 reviews
Ross Watton
US Naval Institute Press, 2004
The detail personifies the series
This book is magnificent. This vessel served nearly four decades. The detail shows lines drawings of every refit, every aircraft, how the arresting wires and catapaults worked, the life boats and all armaments. Wonderful. The most photographs of all this series that I have seen.
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The Age of Sail Annual: The International Annual of the Historic Sailing Ship (Age of Sail Annual)
US Naval Institute Press, 2003
From the eclipse of the galley in the sixteenth century until the widespread introduction of steam in the mid-nineteenth century, the sailing warship was the ultimate symbol of national power. This premier volume of The Age of Sail annual explores all aspects of maritime warfare during the period, including warship development and construction, maritime strategy, naval campaigns, fighting tactics, social life, and naval infrastructure. ...
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Afghanistan And the Troubled Future of Unconventional Warfare6 reviews
Hy S. Rothstein
US Naval Institute Press, 2006
An analytical study of conventional and unconventional uses of tactics in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan
Afghanistan And The Troubled Future Of Unconventional Warfare by Hy S. Rothstein (Department of Defense Analysis at the Naval Postgraduate School, Monterey, California) is an analytical study of conventional and unconventional uses of tactics in the "War on Terrorism" as it is currently being waged in the mountains and valleys of Afghanistan. Arguing that although the operation in Afghanistan was ...
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The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid2 reviews
John Arthur Roberts
US Naval Institute Press, 1982
The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid
I recently obtained the USNI Press's reissue of noted naval historian John Roberts' Anatomy Of The Ship series on the USS Intrepid, the Essex-class carrier now serving as a museum in NYC Harbor. The book, originally published about 22 years ago, holds up remarkably well. It has tight but useful text, great photos, and - of course - the kinds of drawing-after-drawing-after-drawing of the ship, ...
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Air Raid, Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy1 review
US Naval Institute Press, 1981
Truth is often far more fascinating than fiction
There are a lot of reasons to find Ben Affleck's Pearl Harbor movie bad. A bad story based more on Star Wars than on what happened with a pathetic love triangle and unreal characters. Indeed, of all the characters, only one, the guy Cuba Gooding Jr played was real.
This book with the recollections of those there would have made a better movie. All of the people in here are real. And very ...
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Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation3 reviews
James L., III Holloway
US Naval Institute Press, 2007
Aircraft Carrier Operations
Admiral Holloway's story begins with a destroyer torpedo attack on a battleship during the Battle of Suriago Strait in WW II. At the time Holloway was a lieutenant assigned as the gunnery and torpedo officer in the destroyer USS Bennion. There is a rule of thumb in the Navy that a destroyer making a torpedo attack on a battleship in a sea battle has a life expectancy of less than five minutes ...
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Admirals: In the Age of Nelson
Lee Bienkowski
US Naval Institute Press, 2002
The period of the French Wars (1793-1815), known as the golden age of fighting sail in Great Britain because of the extraordinary victories won by the Royal Navy, produced an impressive roster of brilliant flag officers. To date, however, these naval leaders have been overshadowed by the legendary status of their contemporary Admiral Lord Nelson. This book corrects the oversight by putting eleven other admirals in the limelight. In this ...
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Aircraft Versus Submarines: In 2 World Wars
Alfred Price
US Naval Institute Press, 2004
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