Customer Review: Well researched and written tome on Christopher Columbus. It is thorough to the point of excessive and gets to be slow a points but the information included is well presented. The obvious pro Columbus bias is present, but the reader understands this in advance and can adjust as necessary. The... more info
Customer Review: This is volume VII of Morison's fifteen volume History of United States Naval Operations in WWII, and the fifth of nine on the Pacific theater. It consists of three parts: the recovery of the Aleutians, the recovery of the Gilbert Islands, and the capture of the Marshall islands. Part One... more info
Customer Review: This is the eighth of Morison's fifteen volumes on the U.S. naval operations in WWII, and the sixth of nine on the Pacific theater. This particular volume covers the clearing of New Guinea by the MacArthur branch of operations, and the subjugation and capture of the Marianas by the Nimitz arm,... more info
Customer Review: A little over half of the book is devoted to the landing and capture of Sicily. The rest of the book is evenly divided to the two landings and the establishment of beachheads on Italy's west coast. Salerno was first, followed 2 months later at Anzio, north of Salerno.
The author does a nice... more info
Customer Review: It is an honor to be the first to review this book by Admiral Morison for Amazon.com. This is the first book I've ever read by this renowned historian, and it is outstanding in both detail and clarity. Admiral Morison (as he is referred to in Stephen Ambrose's history of D-Day) tells this story... more info
Customer Review: This is volume XII of Samuel E. Morison's History of United States Naval Operations in WWII, and the seventh of nine on the Pacific theater. In it, Morison recounts the merging of Macarthur's southern Pacific drive up from New Guinea with Nimitz's central Pacific thrust coming from the Marianas by... more info
Customer Review: This book is as well written and researched as the rest of the author's series on the US Navy during World War II. It is as informative and entertaining as any in the collection and well worth the price.
Customer Review: I first got this book and read it in eighth grade. I read it once a year ever since! This is, without a doubt, the quintessential book on the US Navy in World War II. (That is, excluding his 15 volume set) Well written, it shows not only the big picture, but the smaller battles and skirmishes.... more info
Customer Review: This is part of a seminal history of the Navy in World War II. Anyone who is a historian should take some time and read this series. Sometimes dry, sometimes very well written, it gives the grand panorama to a naval war that rewrote the book on how the Navy would operate. A book that has been... more info
Customer Review: The book is very interesting, well written by an author clearly concerned with facts not myths as he differentiates between tales surrounding the subject and actual events.
Too bad the book is missing pages 77 thru 92. (At least my copy is, anyone else come upon a similar print? If I keep it... more info
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