Admirals
of the New Steel Navy : Makers of the American Naval Tradition, 1880-1930
James C. Bradford
Hardcover, 427 pages
United States Naval Inst. May 1990 ISBN:
0870210033
Admiral
Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke: The Story of a Fighting Sailor
by Ken Jones, Hubert, Jr Kelley
United States Naval
Inst.
Paperback - 232 pages (March 2001)
The
Amphibians Are Coming! : Emergence of the 'Gator Navy and Its Revolutionary
Landing Craft
by William L. McGee, John A. Lorelli
(Paperback - November 2000)
Battlestations
: American Warships of WWII
by Nicholas A. Veronico, Armand H. Veronico
Hardcover - 168 pages (November 2001)
Motorbooks International; ISBN: 076030954X
The Barque of Saviors: Eagle's Passage from the Nazi Navy to the
U.S. Coast Guard
by Russell Drumm
Listed under US Coast Guard
Battleship
and Cruiser Aircraft of the United States Navy 1910-1949
by William T Larkins
(Hardcover)
Bluejacket
Admiral: The Navy Career of Chick Hayward
by John T. Hayward, C. W. Borklund
Vice Adm. John T. "Chick" Hayward's long and colorful career spanned
the decades from naval aviation's infancy to the dawn of the jet age. He
was one of those rare people who was eminently successful yet humanly colorful,
a high school dropout who became a nuclear physicist. The story of his
role in the development of the atomic bomb and his interaction with the
other Los Alamos scientists is justification enough for a biography, but
Hayward's contributions to the twentieth-century U.S. Navy go significantly
beyond that period. Hayward saw combat in World War II and participated
in the Korean War and Cuban missile crisis, and helped make many of the
decisions that shaped the present-day navy. Amazon.com
Hardcover - 352 pages (August 1, 2000)
United States Naval
Inst.; ISBN: 1557501890
The Bluejacket's Manual
by Thomas J. Cutler, Jim Herdt
Listed under Naval Guides
Brave
Ship Brave Men (Blue Jacket Books)
by Arnold S. Lott
Primarily the story of the minelayer USS AARON WARD which survived
6 kamikaze strikes in 1945, during the assault on Okinawa. Dropbears.com
Paperback Rpt edition (April 1994)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505233
Experiment
in Survival
by George Sigler
This is a book describing a survival expedition of two U.S. navy pilots
who sailed a rubber raft across the Pacific testing new survival techniques.
The story is both a story of adventure, and one giving details of what
it takes to survive in the open ocean.The two pilots departed San Francisco
with no water and six pounds of food arriving in Hawaii 56 days later.
Both had dropped in weight from 186lb to 128lb. It was only at the end
of the trip that the Navy acknowledged they were "an official navy project".
Amazon.com
Paperback: 200 pages
Vero Technical Support; ISBN: 097111000X; (May 11, 2001)
Crommelin's
Thunderbirds : Air Group 12 Strikes the Heart of Japan
by Roy W. Bruce, et al
(Hardcover - October 1994)
Civil War Navies, 1855-1883 (U.S. Navy Warship Series)
by Paul H. Silverstone
Listed under Civil War at Sea
Devil Boats : The PT War Against Japan
by William B. Breuer
Listed under PT Boats
History
of United States Naval Operations in World War II 15 Volume Set
by Samuel Eliot Morison
Book Sales
Hardcover (June 2001)
Improbable
Warriors : Women Scientists and the U.S. Navy in World War II
by Kathleen Broome Williams
The naval careers of four US women scientists in WWII
Hardcover: 288 pages
United States Naval
Inst.; ISBN: 1557509611; (September 2001)
Lady
in the Navy: A Personal Reminiscence (Bluejacket Books)
by Joy Bright Hancock, Arthur W. Radford
Paperback: 304 pages
Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557503990; (April 9, 2002)
Noumea
by Wil Biddy
A US Navy Supply Ship in the Pacific War - Listed
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Naval
Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet (17th Ed)
by Norman Polmar
Hardcover - 592 pages 17th edition (April 2001)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557506566
The
Navy
by W. J. Holland (Editor), Naval Historical Foundation
225 years of history of the US Navy
Hugh Lauter Levin Associates
Hardcover - 360 pages (October 30, 2000) |
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The
Old Steam Navy : Frigates, Sloops, and Gunboats, 1815-1885 Vol 1
Donald L. Canney
Hardcover: 288 pages
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870210041; (August
1990)
On
Seas of Glory : Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American
Navy
by John F. Lehman
Free Press
Hardcover - 432 pages (October 9, 2001)
Honor,
Courage, Commitment: Navy Boot Camp
by J. F. Leahy
(Hardcover - July 2002)
Nuclear
Weapons and Aircraft Carriers : How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation
by Jerry Miller
(Hardcover - May 2001)
PC
Patrol Craft of World War II
by William J. Ph.D. Veigele, et al
Hardcover: 400 pages
Astral Publishing Co.; ISBN: 0964586711; 1 edition (March
15, 1998)
The
Philadelphia Navy Yard : From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear
Age
(Barra Foundation Book)
by Jeffery M. Dorwart, Jean K. Wolf (Contributor)
University of Pennsylvania Press Hardcover - 320 pages
(December 2000)
PT Boats at War : World War II to Vietnam
by Norman Polmar, Samuel Loring Morison
Listed under PT Boats
Top
Hook
by Gordon Kent
(Hardcover - May 2002)
Rebel
Raiders : The Astonishing History of the Confedracy's Secret Navy
by James T. Dekay, James Tertius de Kay
(Hardcover - May 2002)
Sailing
Warships of the US Navy
by Donald L. Canney
Hardcover: 224 pages
Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557509905; (February 1,
2002)
Ships
for Victory : A History of Shipbuilding Under the U.S. Maritime Commission
in World War II
by Frederic Chapin Lane
"Tells the story of the gigantic task accomplished by American shipyards
during World War II . . . This important book shows how the development
of streamlined methods of construction made possible standards of production
which would have seemed fantastic only a few years before."—Publishers
Weekly
Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
Paperback - 944 pages (December 2001)
The
Treaty Navy : The Story of the US Naval Service Between the World Wars
by James W., Jr. Hammond
(Paperback - October 2001)
U.S.
Amphibious Ships and Craft : An Illustrated Design History
by Norman Friedman
Hardcover - 420 pages (December 15, 2001)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557502501
US
Naval Aviation 1946-1999
by Martin W. Bowman
(Hardcover - February 2000)
U.S.
Small Combatants, Including PT-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water
Navy : An Illustrated Design History
by Norman Friedman
Hardcover (December 1987)
United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870217135
United States Navy Diving Manual, Revision 4, Including March 2001
Change A (over 400 new or revised pages)
(CD-ROM)
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Under
Ice : Waldo Lyon and the Development of the Arctic Submarine (Texas A&m
University Military History Series, No 62)
by William M. Leary, John H. Nicholson
(Hardcover - January 1999)
U.S.
Small Combatants, Including Pt-Boats, Subchasers, and the Brown-Water Navy
: An Illustrated Design History
by Norman Friedman
(Hardcover - December 1987)
USS
Olympia: Herald of Empire
by B. Franklin Cooling
Book Description:
Until now there has never been a complete ship's biography of the sole
survivor of America's new steel navy, USS Olympia. Part of a congressionally-mandated
program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the twentieth century,
the protected cruiser became famous as Admiral George Dewey's flagship
at the Battle of Manila Bay in 1898 during the Spanish-American War and
later returned the body of the Unknown Soldier from France after World
War I. Today, the Olympia displays her traditional garb of "buff and white"
as a naval shrine at Penn's Landing on the Delaware River in Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania. This is her story, told by a military historian who served
as curator of the Olympia Association while earning his Ph.D. at the University
of Pennsylvania.
B.F. Cooling presents a flesh and steel history of the pivotal warship
that transitioned the eras of commerce raiding and battle fleet confrontation
in naval warfare. To portray the life and times of this famous ship, he
describes the captains who manned her bridge, the admirals who strode her
decks, and the "swabbies" who labored behind the guns and in the infernos
of fire-room and coal-passing details below decks. From her conceptual
beginnings on drawing boards in Washington, through her construction by
the Union Iron works of San Francisco, to her maiden voyage to the Far
East and her moment in the sun at Manila Bay, Cooling gives readers a vivid
picture of this "Queen of the Pacific" and pride of the fleet. But, fame
was fleeting, and through the years Olympia has battled against age, scrapping,
and the advent of big-gun battleships. Finally in 1954, a veteran's preservation
group brought her out of retirement and began to restore her greatness.
With this landmark study, the once shamefully neglected cruiser regains
her position at the head of the battle line of America's historic ships.
Hardcover from Naval Institute Press
Book Published: 01 November, 2000 |
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When Computers Went to Sea : The Digitization of the United States Navy
by David L. Boslaugh
(Paperback - June 1999)
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Naval Warfare : Courage and Combat on the Water
John C. Wideman
A thorough and engaging account of the American Civil War as it was
played out on the high seas and along the major rivers of the United States.
Every important battle in which naval power played a part is discussed
in detail, along with such innovations as the construction of ironclad
warships, the development of combined operations involving both sea and
land forces, and the deployment of a (barely) working submarine.
Hardcover / Published 1997
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