Customer Review: As with all the books in Morison's series anyone looking for only rather dry historical facts will be disappointed. Although there are countless dates, times, numbers, etc., there are real people and their stories. For an "Official History" this is a very entertaining book to read as are the rest in... more info
Customer Review: I have read many book about the US Navy in WWII. Mr. Morison's book ties all of the events together in a very readable and streight foward manner.
Customer Review: By the early spring of 1945, the United States forces had pushed the Japanese back across the Pacific and were now in position to directly threaten the Japanese home islands. This final volume of Samuel Eliot Morison's fine series covers the battles of Iwo Jima and Okinawa along with the formal... more info
Customer Review: My 86 year old father served in the New Guinea campaign. Only now, in his later years, has he been interested and willing to talk about his World War II experiences. As an enlisted man with an army amphibious unit, he never knew the details of the New Guinea campaign in which he participated. This... more info
Customer Review: When I was a pre-teen, in the 50s, a friend of mine's father had served in the submarine service in the Pacific & had the complete set. He let me read them and that started me on a life-long fascination with history. They are finally back in print and, after over 45 years, I now own the complete... more info
Customer Review: "Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls" is another in Samuel Eliot Morison's History of Naval Operations in World War II. First published in 1951, the scholarship is now a bit dated, but Morison's narrative power and his closeness to the events make this volume and his series still worthwhile... more info
Customer Review: Having read many WWII books over the years I never thought I would tackle a 15 volumn set that was written 40 some years ago but I started with this one and am I glad I did. Mr. Morison's writing style is very crisp and refreshing and makes what is a minor/little know aspect of the war interesting... more info
Customer Review: According to its preface, this popular and scholarly history is a selection of "the most important battles and campaigns" of the war, as opposed to a condensation of the author's 15-volume "History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II." Morison, a participant himself in the war as... more info
Customer Review: I just completed Rear Admiral Morison's Volume X of his remarkable series "The History of United States Naval Operations in World War II," "The Atlantic Battle Won." For all subsequent scholarship that has transpired since the initial publication of this volume, one must notice not a single... more info
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