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The French Army
By Paul-Marie de la Gorce. New York: George Braziller, 1963. 568 pages. $10.00.
Sixty Days that Shook the West
By Jacques Benoist-Mechin. New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1963. 559 pages. $7.95.
The Battle of France, 1940
By Colonel A. Goutard. New York: Ives Washburn, 1963. 263 pages. $4.00.
The Duel for France 1944
By Martin Blumenson. Boston: Houghton Mifflin Company, 1963. 432 pages. Illustrated. $6.95.
REVIEWED BY
S. L. A. Marshall, Brigadier General, U. S. Army Reserve (Retired)
(General Marshall is the author of numerous books on military subjects and a former Deputy Chief of Information, U. S. Army.)
At the very beginning of his exhaustive study of the character of the modern French Army, as it develops from national tradition and as it is related to the government, politics, and the particular nature of the French people, author de la Gorce confesses that he can think of no reportorial assignment which is more bafflingly complex. To that, amen!
By the end of the work, however, this reviewer, having all along believed that the reportorial approach to military affairs is more conducive to perspective than is professional training in the writing of history, lofts the book as an exhibit in proof. The study is thoroughly organized, comprehensive, fair-minded, and non-sensational. It will satisfy anyone who is deeply interested in the problem of keeping military forces both sound in themselves and devoted to a free system, which is to say that this good book is likely to put an average reader to sleep.
Mr. de la Gorce sees his own Army as a somewhat priggish lot, bound by its inheritance to the conviction that what Frenchmen do not know about war, no one else may tell them. But the implication is no less plain that this is the kind of an army which French character and politics require. It elaborates secrecy, professional exclusiveness, and caste almost painfully with the resultant rewards and forfeits. Some of the latter are obvious. Any thorough military reporter looking carefully at the French Army from 1936 to 1939 knows that it had become decadent and demoralized when compared to the fresh German legions rising under Hitler. Once that basic fact was accepted the terrible events of the spring of 1940 could occasion no surprise, and when the breakthrough occurred at Sedan it was possible to say confidently: “All is lost!”
Even so, the historians continue to argue about the maneuvers and decisions of that bleak period as if a change here or there might have dramatically altered the war’s course for the better. It is ridiculous! The battle was lost before the first shot was fired, though those of us who said so out loud at the time were regarded as either mild lunatics or defeatists.
But in one degree or another, all free military forces have the same failings as the French—along with the offsetting virtues. Today the American system, which has been
French soldiers march forward to defeat in May of 1940. The French Army—as shaped by French character and politics— was no match for the German Wehrmacht.
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developed in a wholly different tradition, is becoming ever more like the French. This is not the fault of the professionals. It happens because political authority insists on shortening the horizon, denaturing the natural man, and creating mystery where it should not exist. Maybe it is time to cry out a warning. We had in this century one specter which pushed the principle of civilian control to catastrophic limits, dictating strategic goals, weapons choices, and tactical maneuvers. The name was Hitler.
We have here four books, their common denominator being that they treat aspects of recent French military history. Frenchmen also have the conceit that they are masters at this business. The three other titles, however, relate to French operations in World War II: how France was blacked out, and how, in juncture with Free Frenchmen, other armies set about liberating it. In those years, the French Army had no facility for historical coverage of its own operations. It had been wrecked in the fighting with Hitler. So more guesswork than usual must attend any effort at reconstruction.
Mr. Benoist-Mechin’s large volume on the defeat of France in 1940 is presented with a great trumpeting which acclaims it as the long-awaited classic in revelation. Several big names have so endorsed it, which is more surprising than any of the contents within the covers. To be frank, it is a potpourri of prejudiced judgments, confused tactical extrapolations, and rumor-mongering done by an individual whose knowledge of men in war is as superficial as his sense of fair play when attempting to write history. No author ever strained harder to be sensational and none will fall more flat due to lack of credibility.
The record (none of this is to be found in the book) says that on 6 June 1947, Mr. Benoist- Mechin was sentenced to death by France for dealings with the Germans during the war. This sentence was later commuted and then set aside. That course was run by many Frenchmen, high and low. Mr. Benoist- Mechin may have been the singularly innocent lamb, victimized by circumstance. But if he was innocent then, he is guilty now of writing a book which attempts to establish that the English were guilty of utmost villainy, Hitler’s Germans were quite decent chaps after all, and the French were trapped into a debacle through no real fault of their own. My statement involves some oversimplification of the theme. However, here we have an author who deliberately twists history because of personal bitterness and a drive for self-justification.
Colonel Goutard, French patriot and general staff-trained historian, takes as his theme that the French Army was doomed from the beginning, not by the Ardennes march or the Sedan breach, but by an earlier stifling of its spirit and crushing of its soul by woodenheaded generals. Jean Dutourd said it better in The Taxis of the Marne.* The fault with Colonel Goutard’s essay is that the author lacks any deep emotional conviction. Most of his book is a tactical study of how the Battle for France developed. When he deals with French generals in action he is as gentlehanded as if he were still serving. Where the generals blunder unforgiveably, no red light is raised in warning. The narrative of battle has no more flavor than a paste-up of “sitreps.” Incidentally, that was how German General Heinz Guderian composed his report on the breakthrough of his panzer troops to the Channel coast. Yet Colonel Goutard repeatedly quotes General Guderian as if his descriptions had frontline authenticity.
Martin Blumenson, an American, writes the story of the breakout from Normandy in the summer of 1944, and follows along the course of Operation Overlord past the liberation of Paris into the early autumn. This is one of the least-understood phases of the European Theater history, and Mr. Blumenson writes it powerfully, with a clean style and full appreciation of the dramatic values. In his
* Jean Dutourd, The Taxis of the Marne (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1957).
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hand, the spotlight moves back and forth from the command figures, their personalities, their appreciations, their blunders, to the troops of the line, their ordeal and how they meet it, and wherein bad guessing by their leaders makes the trial worse than necessary.
Mr. Blumenson, who started writing as one of my younger lieutenants in Europe, has devoted his life to this field. There is a fullness about his writing which increases with the years. Now, as his one-time boss, I will offer this word of caution: There are always more sources. Some may be right at hand. It is best not to overlook them. At various points, his operational narrative errs because he did not dig deep enough. The average reader will not recognize what is missing. Some of his peers will. Quite apart from operations, here is one point in illustration: His profile of Major General Troy Middleton, U. S. Army, Commander VIII Corps, has him a congenial, soft character with almost the manner of a school man. But General Middleton was a school man, and he was hard as nails. All hail, for he was a great soul to be with in a fight.
Dawn Like Thunder
By Glenn Tucker. New York: The Bobbs- Merrill Company, 1963. 487 pages. $6.95.
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U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired).
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I have on board the Constitution many remarkable fine young men whose conduct promises great things for their country—Commodore Edward Preble to Secretary of the Navy from the coast of Africa November 1803.
As the 19 th century opened, every Christian power trading in the Mediterranean Sea was paying tribute to the fierce and hungry Deys, Beys, and Bashaws of the Barbary Coast. The tribute was generally in an inverse ratio to the ability of the victims to retaliate. But even England anted up, though Horatio Nelson could surely have polished off these pirates with his right hand had he had one. Some believed that the Lords at Whitehall were not too disturbed by other peoples’
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troubles, and one cynic suggested that if there had been no Barbary Coast, Britain would surely have invented one.
The favorite target of the Barbarians was the new American republic with its far-ranging merchant marine and, thanks to an antibig-government, isolationist congress (“a man should not live near enough to his neighbors to hear his dogs bark”), virtually no navy.
This book is a consistently readable, often fascinating account of the shame and the glory, the slavery and the bravery, the long payment of tribute and final triumph in our tangled dealings with the satraps of Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli.
The author, a North Carolina apple grower and Civil War historian of note, approaches this essentially naval subject with refreshing detachment.
He likes naval officers who fight, that is to say the likes of Preble and his nursery of heroes including the handsome, relentless, al- most-godlike young Stephen Decatur; intrepid Isaac Hull; brilliant John Trippe;
gallant David Porter; James Lawrence, whom Theodore Roosevelt was to call the “Bayard of the Seas”; and the high-spirited Andrew Sterrett who ran a cowardly seaman through with his sword and explained, “You must not think it strange, for we would put a man to death for even looking pale on board this ship.”
He has detailed and documented scorn for the uxorious Captain Richard Valentine Morris and the timid Commodore Samuel Barron. He has restrained compassion for the composed and punctilious William Bainbridge who languished in a Tripolitan slave camp with the 300 officers and men from his captured Philadelphia, writing long letters of cautious advice while Preble’s guns thundered at the forts and diplomats dickered over the ransom price.
The author points out that Commodore Preble did not have a ship commander who had reached his 30th birthday, and he defines a good naval officer of that day as “selfreliant, proud, touchy, a bit overly bellicose.” Like many another he has a lyrical regard for the remarkable frigates—Constitution, Constellation, et al.—which a pair of gifted and honest marine architects produced from native red cedar and live oak.
Next to “Preble and his Boys,” Mr. Tucker reserves his greatest admiration for an undiplomatic American diplomat-turned- soldier by the name of William Eaton who, with limited support from the Navy, led a tatterdemalion army of cutthroat Arabs and mercenary Christians across the waterless sands of Barca for a landward attack on Tripoli. Eaton’s plan was to replace the American-hating Bashaw Yusuf with his friendlier older brother, Hamet. The saga of this escapade makes Lawrence of Arabia look like a sissy. The hard core of Eaton’s polyglot camel caravan consisted of an American Marine officer, Lieutenant Presley Neville O’Bannon, and seven enlisted Marines. From this comes the first verse of the Marine hymn and the Mameluke sword that Marine officers wear to this day.
This book represents the first modern attempt to put the Barbary wars in prospective. It contains fine thumbnail biographies of the principal actors, and it should serve in particular to bring belated recognition to that
neglected and contentious patriot, “General- of-the-Army” Eaton. Though the author appears at times to view the Navy largely through Eaton’s eyes, Eaton was not a bad judge of the relative value of money, gun powder, and stouthearted men when it came to fighting a war.
All together it is an excellent account of the fiery kindergarten that separated the men from the boys in the early American Navy, trained the commanders who fought the brilliant “Don’t-give-up-the-ship” duels of the War of 1812, and provided the world’s newest naval power with a Dawn Like Thunder.
Man and the Conquest of the Poles
By Paul-Emile Victor. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1963. 320 pages. Illustrated. $6.95.
REVIEWED BY
George J. Dufek, Rear Admiral,
U. S. Navy (Retired)
{Admiral Dufek is former Commander, Naval Support Force Antarctica.)
Seldom does history produce a combination of outstanding explorer and author, but we find one here in the French polar explorer Paul-Emile Victor.
His is not another chronological history of polar exploration. It is a story of the conquest of the most inhospitable areas on the surface of the earth, the North and South Poles.
Man and the Conquest of the Poles traces the probes through the higher latitudes beginning with the Greek explorer Pytheas in the fourth century and ending with the voyages of the American nuclear submarines underneath the polar ice pack.
The cast of characters includes the names of the polar greats like James Cook, Roald Amundsen, Robert F. Scott, Robert E. Peary, Richard E. Byrd, and Sir Edmund Hillary. But there are many stories of other expeditions led by men who are not so well known but who contributed much to the knowledge and development of the polar regions. He treats them all kindly, usually glossing over their weaknesses and jealousies.
The book is spiced with anecdotes and human understanding; with the success, heroism, and tragedy there is also humor. In some instances the humor is so well concealed that it is apparent only to those who have intimate knowledge of the circumstances of characters involved.
With degrees in science and engineering and 14 years experience in polar exploration, both north and south, Mr. Victor is well qualified to relate the exciting story of man’s mastery of the arts of polar navigation and the development of sea, air, and ground transportation.
The landscape of the Antarctic, from Man and the Conquest of the Poles.
Throughout the story one senses the dominant theme that regardless of the virtues or faults of the explorers they have one trait in common—courage. But courage is not
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enough. If it were, Pythias could have been the first to reach both poles. To conquer an objective in a hostile environment one must have adequate knowledge and technology.
The author tallies the impressive scientific achievements, and the co-operation of all nations, in the Antarctic during the International Geophysical Year (1957-1958) in a readable manner. He explains how the men of good will who explored the Southern Continent influenced their governments to sign the Antarctic Treaty, by the terms of which they have agreed that all economic, territorial, and military problems be set aside for a period of 30 years. He sounds a note of warning of what might happen, upon the expiration of the Treaty, “when the men of good will make way for the governments, the soldiers, and the business men.” He concludes: “Man has shown in the Antarctic, on an extremely small scale, what he could do, if he acted as an intelligent being—and that he should organize his affairs to make it possible to live in peace on his own planet before reaching out for others.”
There appears today a parallel in man’s objective to build a base on the moon. Only those two ingredients—adequate knowledge and technology—and possibly a third, international co-operation, are lacking. When it happens it will make a grand story, and I believe that in all probability Paul-Emile Victor will be there to write it.
American Strategy in World War II:
A Reconsideration
By Kent Roberts Greenfield. Baltimore:
The Johns Hopkins Press, 1963. 145 pages. $4.50.
REVIEWED BY
E. M. Eller, Rear Admiral,
U. S. Navy (Retired)
{Admiral Eller is Director, Naval History Division,
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.)
Dr. Kent Greenfield’s American Strategy in World War II, as one would expect, presents an interesting study of the latest and greatest of the world wars which shook civilization to its foundations. Every thoughtful person should read it. But in doing so he should remember that both in the decisions reviewed,
and in the perception of even a distinguished historian like Dr. Greenfield, appears one of our nation’s serious weaknesses.
It is a weakness that several times in our brief history has almost proved fatal to our island continent. It is a weakness that seems to be constitutional in America. It is a weakness that, despite the achievements of World War II and others since, still infects national thinking. It is a failure to understand maritime strength that is written as large as the oceans in our destiny from the American Revolution to the Cuban crisis.
Dr. Greenfield’s book results from lectures given in 1962 at Memphis State University in the J. P. Young lectureship. They are the distilled essence of his own wide experience, deep thinking, and large responsibilities during the 16 years he spent preparing the U. S. Army’s fine series of volumes on its noted achievements of World War II.[1]
None therefore could dispute most, if any, of the eight strategic decisions he selects as representing the outstanding Allied decisions of World War II. However, readers can wish that he had pointed up more the role of maritime strategy. This could be termed the ninth decision, of utmost importance, forced upon us in order to win. Its influence pervaded all that we did. We had to control and use the sea to project the nation’s total power wherever desired. Maritime strategy shaped most if not all of the other decisions, and it was instrumental in all their successes.
In the first chapter, Dr. Greenfield outlines his chosen eight major decisions. He emphasizes the difference in Allied attitudes toward planning, and points out that American planning consistently favored military considerations over political ones. This note carries through subsequent chapters.
This thought-provoking work has many virtues once we accept the common American failing to comprehend maritime strategy. One of study’s virtues is the excellent portrayal of President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s large role in the decisions of the Joint Staff—which he used as a staff. This is proper. Nothing should lie between the captain of the ship of state
* United States Army in World War II (Washington: Government Printing Office, 1947 ).
and his most experienced assistants. If their judgment is not sound, whose can be? If disaster comes, not he alone, but the whole state must suffer.
Naturally as a brief condensation of the large decisions of the War, this book has generalizations that exceed the facts. For example, Dr. Greenfield notes that in 1943 as we “moved nearer to concentration on the massive blow that the Americans desired . . . this step-by-step advance permitted much of the elasticity and follow-up of immediate opportunity in which the British believed.” Anyone who saw the functioning of the staffs of Fleet Admirals King and Nimitz knows that both types of thinking existed in these staffs—as they do in all groups of men. However, elasticity and flexible resolution to shift plans and to strike while the iron was hot commonly prevailed. They prevailed because they are a fundamental strength of sea power and fundamental in the successes of great commanders ashore or afloat throughout history.
One must also find exception and regret that a fine historian like Dr. Greenfield ends by accepting the validity of mass bombing of civilian targets. He resists this conclusion and seems to oppose it, but near the end of the book writes of terror raids by Americans: “the grim logic of war had taken it out of the hands of men charged with its direction.”
This book causes one often to pause to consider the course of great events and the influence of actions in World War II upon the strange and incredible course of our times since 1945. One of these stands out clearly. The democratic process as applied to the War generally resulted in the best military wisdom being interwoven throughout the major Allied decisions. Germany, under a dictator, did not give the proponents of maritime strength a fair hearing and met with disaster. We did in the War; but with the victory won, we followed a similar course and failed to maintain this essential balance between land and sea strategy. It can be said that Germany lost the war for lack of appreciation of maritime strategy. Can it also be said that the United States is losing the peace for the same reason?
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By Rear Admiral Paul Auphan, French Navy (Ret.) and Jacques Mordal. Translated by Captain A. C. J. Sabalot, USN (Ret.). 1959. 413 pages. Illustrated.
The Hunters and the Hunted................................................................ $3.50 ($2.63)
By Rear Admiral Aldo Cocchia, Italian Navy (Reserve). 1958. 180 pages. Illustrated.
The Italian Navy in World War II.......................................................... $5.75 ($4.32)
By Commander Marc’Antonio Bragadin, Italian Navy. 1957. 380 pages. Illustrated.
By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, former Imperial Japanese Navy. Edited by Roger Pineau and Clarke Kawakami. 1955. 266 pages. Illustrated.
White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 ..................................
By Captain S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., RN (Ret.). 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
Midway, The Battle That Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy’s Story .... $4.50 ($.3.38)
$4.50 ($3.38)
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Commander Walter C. Blattmann, USX. 1957. 185 pages. Paperbound.
Geography and National Power........................................................................................................... $2.50.. ($2.00)
Edited by Professor William W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. 3rd Ed., 1962. 180 pages. Paper- bound.
Naval Logistics.................................................................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer. USX (Ret.). 2nd Ed., 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ................................................................................................................ $10.00.. ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available. 14 essays. 3 appendixes. 1962. 369 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1964 .......................................................................................................................... $10.00.. ($8.00)
This is the second annual publication which examines the problems and developments in the Navy and other seagoing Services. 1963. 396 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 ............................................................................. $2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding Eliot. 1958. 126 pages.
SEAMANSHIP
The Art of Knotting and Splicing......................................................................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Cyrus Day. Step-by-step pictures explanatory text. 2nd Ed., 1955. 224 pages.
Naval Shiphandling............................................................................................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USX. 2nd Ed., 1963. 529 pages. Illustrated.
NAVIGATION—PILOTING
Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting..................................................................................................... $8.00 ($6.40)
Prepared by Commander J. C. Hill. II, USX, Lieutenant Commander T. F. Utcgaard, USX, and Gerard Riordan. (A completely rewritten text which supplants Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.) 1st Ed., 1958. 771 pages. Illustrated.
Practical Manual of the Compass......................................................................................................... $3.60 ($2.88)
By Captain Harris Laning, USN, and Lieutenant Commander H. D. McGuire, USX. 1921. 173 pages. Illustrated.
The Rules of the Nautical Road........................................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. I’. Farwell, USNR. Revised by Lieutenant Alfred Prunski, USCG. 3rd Ed., 1954. 536 pages. Illustrated,
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road................................................................................................. $2.00 ($1.60)
By Lieutenant O. IV. Will, III, USN. 1962. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy.................................................................................................. $1.95 ($1.56)
Revised by Captain John V. Noel, Jr., USN, and Master Chief Journalist William J. Miller, USN (Ret.). 17th Ed., 1964. 684 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual......................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.20)
By Captain W. C. Hogan, USCG. Revised by Lt. Cdr. M. M. Dickinson, USCGR, assisted by Loran W. Behrens, BMC, USN-FR. 3rd Ed., 1958. 819 pages. Illustrated.
Division Officer's Guide..................................................................................................................... $2.25.. ($1.80)
By Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 5th Ed., 1962. 282 pages.
The Marine Officer's Guide................................................................................................................ $7.50.. ($6.00)
Revised by Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., USMC (Ret.). 2nd Ed., 1964. 614 pages. Illustrated.
The Naval Aviator’s Guide................................................................................................................. $5.50.. ($4.40)
By Captain Malcolm W. Cagle, USN. 1963. 305 pages. Illustrated.
Studies in Guerrilla Warfare................................................................................................................ $2.50.. ($1.88)
Studies written by experts in the field. Originally published as articles in the Proceedings. 1963. 89 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Watch Officer’s Guide........................................................................................................................ $2.50.. ($2.00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th Ed., 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
LEADERSHIP
Naval Leadership, 2nd edition............................................................................................................ $3.50.. ($2.80)
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, Captain Frank J. Mulholland, USMC, Commander John M. Laudenslager, MSC. USNR, Lieutenant Horace j. Connery, MSC, USX, R. Adm. Bruce McCandless, USX (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. Gregory J. Mann. 1959. 301 pages.
Naval Leadership, 1st edition.............................................................................................................. $3.00.. ($2.60)
Prepared at the U. S. Naval Academy for instruction of midshipmen. 1949. 324 pages.
Selected Readings in Leadership.................................................................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, and Captain F. J. Mulholland, USMC. Revised by Leadership Committee, Command Department, U. S. Naval Academy. Revised 1960. 126 pages. Paperbound.
ENGINEERING
Descriptive Analysis of Naval Turbine Propulsion Plants . ........................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander C. N. Payne, USN. 1958. 187 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships............................................................ $5.50 ($4.40
By Professor Thomas C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1959. 373 pages. Illustrated.
Internal Combustion Engines.......................................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander P. W. Gill, USN, Commander, J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Professor E. J. Ziurys. 4th Ed., 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Marine Engineering............................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Fundamentals of Sonar.................................................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
By Dr. J. Warren Horton. 2nd Ed., 1959. 417 pages. Illustrated.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services.................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Charles W. Shilling (MC), USN. 292 pages. Illustrated.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables............................................................................................ $1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention................................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine............................................................................................................................. $ .75 ($ .60)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paperbound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial.................................................................................................... $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paperbound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers.......................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Burdick H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson. 2nd Ed., 1960. 318 pages. Illustrated.
Military Law.................................................................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Compiled by Captain J. K. Taussig, Jr., USN (Ret.), and Commander H. B. Sweitzer, USN. Revised and edited by Commander M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Lieutenant Commander R. I. Gulick USN. Revised by Lieutenant Commander John W. Des Jardin. USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 94 pages.
LANGUAGES
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese................................................................................................ $4.50 ($3.60)
U. S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland
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Vol. One—109 pages. Paperbound...................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paperbound.................................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1954. 140 pages.
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology......................................................................... $4.00 ($3.20)
SERVICE LIFE
The Best of Taste, The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations.............................................. $4.00 ($3.00)
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.13)
By Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovette, USN (Ret.). 4th Ed., 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea......................................................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.63)
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, USN.
The Sailor’s Wife................................................................................................................... $1.50 ($1.13)
By Lucy Wright. 1962. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Service Etiquette..................................................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Captain Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Oretha D. Swartz. Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. 2nd Ed., 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard.................................................................................................................... $4.00^ ($3.00)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 5th Ed., 1960. 273 pages.
SPORTS—ATHLETICS
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Boxing..................................... Revised, 1950. 288 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | How to Survive on Land and Sea .......................... 2nd Revised Ed., 1956. 366 | $4.00 pages. | ($3.00) |
Championship Wrestling . . | $4.50 | ($3.38) | Intramural Programs . . . | $4.00 | ($3.00) |
1964. 230 pages. |
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Conditioning Exercises . . | $4.50 | ($3.38) | Soccer ..................................... | $4.50 | ($3.38) |
3rd Ed., 1960. 275 pages. |
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Gymnastics and Tumbling . | $4.50 | ($3.38) | Swimming and Diving . . | $4.50 | ($3.38) |
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Baseball............................................................................................................................. $4.50 ($3.38)
By Robert Spackman, Jr. 1963. 152 pages. Illustrated.
Modern Fencing......................................................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.63)
By Clovis Deladrier. 1948. 289 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Squash Racquets........................................................................................................................ $1.60 ($1.28)
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today.................................................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1963. 329 pages. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs....................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. Over 90 old and new songs. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
Your Naval Academy............................................................................................................. $1.00 ($ .75)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Midshipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions. 1955. Paperbound.
Proceedings Cover Pictures.................................................................................................... $2.50 ($1.88)
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959. Printed on 13 x ™at. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Reef Points
The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1964-1965 .......................................................... $1.35, net
Compiled by the Reef Points Staff of the Trident Society. The plebe’s bible, a compact book covering the Naval Academy and the history and traditions of the Naval Service.
[1] Marine biologist-curator Craig Phillips has rendered a genuine service to both layman and specialist in The Captive Sea (Chilton, $6.50) which is the first major work on modern oceanariums, of which there are a growing number. By clear and authentic text and humorous, true-life caricatures, Phillips conducts the reader through the stages of establishing, stocking, and maintaining the sea aquarium. Phillips is with the U. S. Fish and Wildlife Service and is working on what should be the foremost “captive sea,” the National Aquarium to be established in Washington, D. C. The everlasting search for an effective shark-repellent inspired the preparation of Sharks and Survival (D. C. Heath, $9.90), edited by Cornell University zoologist Perry W. Gilbert. Containing the contributions of more than a score of leading authorities, this thorough compilation deals with taxonomy, behavior, and anatomy of sharks; also shark attacks; and finally the achievements toward developing an effective repellent. This volume is an excellent companion to Chilton’s Shadows in the Sea, 1963.
• Two of the latest and best books on sport diving are Fred M. Roberts Basic Scuba (Van Nostrand, $12.50) and Carrier and Parker’s Dive (Funk and Wagnalls, $5.95). Both are revised, and Roberts’ work has been considerably enlarged.