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A Maritime History of the United States: The Role of America’s Seas and Waterways
K. Jack Bauer. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 1988. lllus. Maps. Notes. Bib. Ind. $24.95 ($22.45).
Reviewed by Robert L. Scheina
American literature has long starved for a survey of the maritime history of the United States. Today, those who bewail the pitiful state of our maritime enterprise do not creditably answer the question: What has brought about our demise? Management blames labor, labor blames unfair foreign competition, and all seek salvation from the taxpayer in the form of subsidies and protective legislation. In A Maritime History of the United States, K. Jack Bauer reminds us that successful maritime endeavors depend upon profit, and that in bygone eras the United States was a maritime power because it could deliver the goods cheaper than its competitors could.
Dr. Bauer’s book is as broad and as deep as the ocean, and not limited to salt water. He devotes three of the ten chapters to freshwater endeavors—canals, the western rivers, and the Great Lakes. He begins with pre-Columbian maritime activities of native Americans, details two centuries of development, and concludes by examining the current state of U. S. maritime ventures. An interpretative reading list complements the description of each era.
Dr. Bauer traces the intertwining influence of economics, politics, technology, and sociology upon our nation’s maritime evolution, offering abundant and thought-provoking insights from each of these disciplines.
He analyzes the economic advantages the United States held during each era and in each industry. Dr. Bauer also reveals why these once highly successful enterprises declined: “Most of the problems faced by the American merchant marine” he concludes, “boil down to the single issue of costs and the inability to offset these costs through increased productivity or innovation.”
Politics have played an important role in maritime affairs. Dr. Bauer addresses in detail the Jones Act of 1920 that “remains the basis of United States policy, from which springs the subsidy programs that ensnared the government ever more tightly in the affairs of the maritime industry until 1983.” He notes that the 1936 Merchant Marine Act was the child of Congress and not the maritime- oriented Franklin D. Roosevelt, as many believe.
The book’s insights into the effects of technology particularly interested me. For example, Dr. Bauer observes that “the relative inefficiency of single-cylinder engines ensured that sailing vessels would remain the most efficient carriers for bulk cargoes until well after the Civil War.” Concerning the early days of passenger ships: “Part of Cunard’s success resulted from the adoption of iron hulls in 1856. Iron hulls were stronger than wood ones and better able to support the large engines that allowed Cunard to reclaim the Atlantic blue ribbon. ...” Concerning the demise of the clipper ship: “Another nail in the coffin of the wooden clipper was the British shift to composite craft having iron frames and wooden planking.”
Visions of Richard H. Dana, Jr.’s, classic Two Years Before the Mast ran through my mind as Dr. Bauer recounted the life of the deck hands on board the packets and clippers and in the fishing fleet during the 19th century. He also provides insight into the hardships immigrants endured during their crossings, and notes that one problem the huge U. S. liner Leviathan confronted during Prohibition was that “most passengers were disinclined to use dry American vessels. ...”
Perhaps other authors have advanced these analyses related to economics, politics, technology, and sociology. But Dr. Bauer is the first to intertwine them masterfully into a broad history.
If Dr. Bauer had answered only the “whats” and “whens” of America’s maritime past, this book would be an excellent reference tool. He goes beyond this to answer the infinitely more diff'cU 1 “whys” and “hows.” This makes the work useful to all maritime scholars. » more important, by reading this W°l| carefully the general reader can conclud for himself what has gone wrong in °ur maritime world. This is what will max this book a classic in the field. I strong ^ recommend A Maritime History of 111 United States for those who are c°n cemed not only with America’s mantin'6 past, but also its future.
Dr. Scheina is the historian for the U. S. C°a Guard.
Soviet Naval Forces and Nuclear Warfare: Weapons, Employment and Policy
James J. Tritten. Boulder, Colorado: Westview Press, 1986. 300 pp. Appended. $30.50 ($27.15) paper.
Reviewed by Commander Bruce W. Watson, U. S. Navy (Retired)
There is a significant imbalance in Western literature on the strategic use^ the Soviet Navy. Many first-rate authors Norman Polmar, A. D. Baker IIL ^ Moore, Norman Friedman, and Je Labayle-Couhat being among the notable—have written on Soviet naV ^ construction, while very few have wf|t on Soviet strategy and naval think'n=j Navy Commander James Tritten’s 1 ^ pressive book goes a long way tovva correcting this imbalance.
Tritten’s purpose is to apply 9U^ titative and behaviorist technique* specifically a content analysis appr°aC0f in examining the intended strategic use the Soviet Navy. In doing so, he has ^ complished a commendable amount ^ research, considering, for example. e major statement made by Admiral or Fleet of the Soviet Union Serge' . Gorshkov, past ministers of defense, heads of the Politburo concerning strategic use the Soviet Union intends its fleet. In the first of the book s sections, Tritten presents his metho
of
ti0nar>alysis with his strategic observa- Cr ‘! thereby proving that the Soviets are rr,! atlng a navy that can fulfill the naval the Sl°ns as Written defines them. Third, thr aut^or maintains his objectivity °ughout the book. He did not conduct
0f and then applies it to the major tenets nav ® Gorshkov thesis, to the issue of the ij-j.y s influence on war, and to Soviet |yzary strategy. In the second, he ana- ces the Soviets’ naval hardware and He j Uc*es that they have the equipment Pan CC* l° their goals. The final two the' Provide Tritten’s conclusions and Th^ 'cati°ns for the U. S. Navy. Ser°ughout the sections, Tritten’s re- tatecl1 ’s exhaustive and his analysis first
Although some of his views echo those ter),Carher authors, four aspects of Trit- sho S| *300'c ma*ce it a significant one that aHal ( *lave a Prc,found impact. First, he Pos'^ZeS thinking behind the Soviet tVar,tl0ns' Second, he integrates his hard- the study with preconceived notions; rather, he applied his content-analysis approach to the existing literature and then presented logical, well-formulated conclusions. Finally, and perhaps most important, many of Tritten’s conclusions run counter to accepted positions.
Tritten states that the Soviet Navy is not a “defensive” one. Based on Soviet strategic statements and the fact that their current general-purpose submarine force is far larger than that needed for defense, the author concludes that the navy’s purpose is offensive. In war, the ultimate means of defeating the enemy will be a triad of nuclear forces, one part of which is the nuclear-powered ballistic missile submarine (SSBN) fleet. The Yankee SSBNs deployed off U. S. shores are to accomplish a first-strike damage-limitation mission by attacking U. S. administrative-political centers, military bases and targets, and industrial centers of military value. Although the Soviets have placed ballistic missiles on submarines to assure the survivability of their intercontinental ballistic missile force, the SSBNs do not occupy a defensive third-strike role. In fact, Tritten seriously questions the “withholding strategy,” which speculates that the Soviets would withhold their SSBNs, thereby assuring them a third-strike capability. The patrolling Yankees would participate in a first strike, as would some of the SSBNs patrolling in an Arctic sanctuary that the author thinks the Soviets can defend against the West.
While the war may be conventional at first, it will escalate to a nuclear phase. Since the Soviets do not accept the strategy of mutually assured destruction (MAD), they will try to end the war as quickly as possible, while minimizing the damage to themselves. In this respect, Tritten believes that the Soviets can do a great deal of damage. The patrolling Yankees alone can cripple U. S. bomber, tanker, and submarine bases and can “conduct a modest but effective tack.” Allied sea lines of communication (SLOCs) and U. S. aircraft carriers and submarines will also come under heavy attack. These capabilities convince Tritten that the United States cannot perform a disarming first strike against the Soviet Union. In fact, the author believes that the Soviet Union “deters” nuclear war through its military capability. Additionally, it will solve what Tritten calls “its America problem” through this preparedness, with propaganda and through arms control agreements that limit Western development in weapon areas where the Soviets cannot compete or feel threatened. All this leads to a provocative conclusion: We must develop active as well as passive defense strategies based on the “lack of Soviet adherence to MAD.”
Tritten’s book provides enough fuel to feed several fires of controversy. Because of its scope, content, integrity, and methodology, it is a seminal work that significantly advances our understanding of the Soviet Navy. All serious observers of the Soviet Navy should add the book to their libraries and read it with the utmost attention.
Commander Watson is an adjunct professor at the Defense Intelligence College in Washington, D. C. He recently retired from the Navy after 23 years of
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A Piece of My Heart: The Stories of Twenty-Six American Women Who Served in Vietnam
Keith Walker. Novato, CA: Presidio Press, 1985. 350 pp. Photos. Append. Gloss. $18.95 ($17.05).
In the Combat Zone: An Oral History of American Women in Vietnam
Kathryn Marshall. Boston, MA: Little, Brown, 1987. 270 pp. Photos. Ind. $17.45 ($15.70).
Nurses in Vietnam: The Forgotten Veterans
Dan Freedman and Jacqueline Rhoads, Editors. Austin, TX: Texas Monthly Press, 1987. 164 pp. Photos. Gloss. $16.95 ($15.25).
Reviewed by Mary Stout
The entertainment industry’s recent run of movies and television programs dealing with the Vietnam War reflects Americans’ willingness finally to examine the historical, political, and personal
American women who served in Vietnam had a hands-on experience which reached an intensity level not easily matched outside of war.
significance of the conflict. A recent Gallup poll showed that most Americans of voting age consider the war to have been a key event in their lives. Bookstores are brimming with works on Vietnam by veterans and nonveterans alike. Three books published over the last year and a half treat Vietnam from the perspective of the women who served there. A Piece of My Heart, In The Combat Zone, and Nurses in Vietnam together present the oral histories of more than 50 women who served in Southeast Asia in military and civilian roles. Their stories span the time from 1965—when former Army Captain Lorraine Boudreau nursed patients at the 93d Evacuation Hospital at Long Binh while Quonset huts were being put up around them—to 1975—when Julie Forsythe, a rehabilitation worker with the American Friends Service Committee, was interrogated by the North Vietnamese after the fall of Saigon.
Nurses in Vietnam records the experiences of Army nurses—the largest single group of women to serve in Vietnam. Keith Walker and Kathryn Marshall also interviewed Navy nurses, women in other military occupations, and civilians.
Some common themes emerge from most of the stories. Women went to Vietnam out of their personal need to serve and curiosity about the war and the region. Few felt prepared for what they encountered. But they do not believe anyone could have prepared them for the war. Many continue to have some difficulty dealing with their memories. Most have had little or no further contact with those with whom they served.
Coming through all the stories is the women’s sympathy and pain. They felt they had to be superwomen, hiding their grief when their patients died and keeping a cheerful front day after day to avoid upsetting the men for whom they cared. Many report that the year they spent in Vietnam was the most important in their lives; but they also recall bitter homecomings and troubling memories. As Maureen Walsh, who served as a nurse at the Naval Support Activity Hospital in Da Nang from August 1968 to September 1969, puts it, “It really hurts every Veterans Day, when 1 see the Vietnam veterans .. . getting so upset about not getting benefits and so forth. It starts opening wounds ... it seems every time I get to a point where things have healed . . . something comes up in the news, and all the wounds start opening . . . .”
These women often speak frankly about disturbing issues. Red Cross women such as Cherie Rankin recount examples of sexual harassment, but speak with great affection for the young soldiers. The easy access to drugs in Vietnam and the young Americans ill from drug overdoses troubled Karen Bush and many other military nurses. The nurses give nightmarish descriptions of the wounds they treated, particularly in the triage areas and operating rooms. Civilian women often had trouble respecting
U. S. military persons because of th£U own contact with Vietnamese civilians and their concern that the U. S. presence in Vietnam was invalid.
The women viewed their roles in Vic1' nam as important ones, and they kn°" the true costs of war. They give touchm? accounts of the courage and selflessness of young soldiers, of sitting with then- dying countrymen, and even of l°ve’ Many tell of a fierce healer’s love f°r dying men they did not know. Here >s Lorraine Boudreau, for instance:
“They brought one guy in . . - • had a gunshot wound to the head • ■ ■ there was absolutely nothing th®| could be done for him, but he was stu breathing .... I’d repack the dressing on his head because brain tissue was seeping out .... He probabl) was an E-5, a buck sergeant. I f°unf myself looking in his wallet to see 1 he had any pictures .... I wanted 10 know who he was. It doesn’t read; make a difference if you see a hundre casualties ... my feeling was 1113 one of the worst things that can hap pen to anybody is dying alone. spite the fact that he was unconscious ... he shouldn’t die alone.”
Many women did their year in Vietn1111' as many soldiers, sailors, and Marine* did. It was a year of survival, of gettu1- through it, of doing their best and gettiuf- home. The experience had lasting eft£Cts for most of them, changing their attitude* about the government, the war, th£1 friends, and the military. . ^
As a former Army nurse I identity most closely with the feelings of the nil1 tary women. Like most of them, I °den wonder if my patients made it home. What are their lives like now? How d> they deal with the loss of limbs, bliu ness, scarring from bums? In a Comb0 Zone contains a small part of my , story. Telling it was painful, but I wanie^ to reach other women who served °1^ country and let other Americans reco? nize their service.
I know almost half of the women th£^ authors interviewed. Many are active ^ veterans’ service, and use their exp^1 ences to ensure that the country will ma thoughtful decisions when consideflU- armed conflict again. .jj
These strong, dedicated women "*
felt i® vetet' ans left a piece of her heart in the com zone.
Ms. Stout is the president of the Vietnam Vetera115 America, Inc.
Time and Tide
Thomas Fleming. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1987. 734 pp. $19.95 ($17.95).
Reviewed by W. E. B. Griffin
Thomas Fleming shares with Tom Clancy what I have long jealously suspected is a genetic Irish storytelling ability that makes those of us without the right genes cringe as we examine our own pedestrian prose. Clancy put the British Royal Family in his Patriot Games (Putnam’s, 1987) and made it believable. Fleming puts a ghost on board the fictional, but oh-so-real, USS Jefferson City—a Pacific Fleet cruiser—as she fights World War II, and that too is believable.
Time and Tide will inevitably be compared with Clancy’s works about the U. S. Navy today, and with Herman Wouk’s The Caine Mutiny (Doubleday, 1954). They shouldn’t be however. They really don’t have much in common, except they’re all about the U. S. Navy and they all deserve to be called “great books.”
Wouk wrote about what happened among a dozen junior officers on one insignificant ship in World War II. Clancy writes about the Navy in the nuclear age. Fleming writes, in Time and Tide, about the crew of the Jefferson City as she sails into harm’s way throughout the second world war.
Her captain is a major character, but so is a teenaged apprentice seaman who is more or less raped by a bosun’s mate and realizes that’s precisely what he’s been looking for. The Navy’s admirals are in
Fleming’s book—from Ernest R. King to Bull Halsey and Raymond Spruance— and they come across as real people. So do Fleming’s officers’ wives—and ladies of somewhat less exalted social status, from British movie stars to practitioners of the oldest profession.
Fleming served in the Navy in World War II. The book jacket doesn’t say whether in officer’s country or wielding a mop, and I wouldn’t hazard a guess. What is clear, however, is that if he was an officer, and thus privy to what goes on in the wardroom, he also spent a lot of time on duty and off with the whitehats. And if he wore bell bottom trousers, he somehow came to know—not guess— how the other half lived.
Recently, I had the pleasure of being on board the Aegis cruiser the USS Mobile Bay (CG-53). Wise old sergeant as I like to think I am, I passed up the official tour for the privilege of tagging along after her master chief petty officer as he moved about his ship. The Mobile Bay and her crew were thus in my mind as I read about the Jefferson City and her crew.
There were enormous differences, of course. The sailors on board the Mobile Bay not only live far better in terms of creature comforts than did the sailors of the Jefferson City, but are held in far greater respect by their officers. The technology of war available to the Mobile Bay would have boggled the minds of Jefferson City sailors.
But, oh, the similarities! I read about Thomas Fleming’s Captain Arthur Mackay and saw in my mind’s eye the captain of the Mobile Bay. He may sail in different waters, and may see the battle unfold on cathode ray tubes, rather than through the glass windows on the bridge- but their responsibilities are identical-
Fleming paints, with consummate al tistry, how a good captain can instill in his men a devotion to their ship, an shipmates, and indeed the Navy, that close to being mystical; and he does jus as well painting a picture of how a cap' tain who does not have what it takes put> his ship and her crew in jeopardy.
About 30 pages into the book, I was glad that Fleming hadn’t come horn1- from the war and immediately written this book. Not that he wasn’t a fine writ^r even then, but the craft of writing 15 something like that of cabinetmakwS' The more you do it, the better you gd’ and when he wrote Time and Tw • Thomas Fleming’s apprenticeship was I behind him. This is the work of a maste craftsman, sure of his powers, and °n who obviously takes pride in not aban doning his quest for perfection. ..
I can only guess how professional sa‘ ors will receive this book. But if this we about the Army, I am convinced it wou be near the top of a list of books that s*j nior officers would pointedly suggest tn bushy-tailed second lieutenants and bran new corporals read and reflect on at the first opportunity.
W. E. B. Griffin is the author of The New p (Book VII in the Brotherhood of War series. ■ ^ Putnam’s Sons, 1987) and Call to Arms (Book The Corps series, Jove, 1987).
______________________________ Panic in Beantown_____________________
During my tour as commanding officer of the O'Bannon (DD-987), my request to make a port visit to Boston, my hometown, was granted. To celebrate, I invited a large group of friends to tour the ship before we went out to dinner in the city.
Proudly, I led the tour of the new destroyer. Then, leaving my guests in the wardroom, I returned to my cabin to change into civilian clothes. While changing, I called the quarterdeck to notify the watch officer that I was going ashore.
When I returned to the wardroom, my guests were gone. I went to the quarterdeck. The watch- standers told me that the group had left in a great hurry, and was now standing on the pier.
The mystery ended when I rejoined the group. The watch officer had jumped the gun, and the word, “O’BANNON, DEPARTING,” had been passed over the 1MC before I actually crossed the quarterdeck.
Fearing the ship was getting under way, my guests fled.
Captain W. Scott Slocum, U. S. Navy (Retired)
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Anatomy of Courage
Pubr k!°ran' harden City Park, NY: Avery hshing Group, 1987. 224 pp. $9.95 ($8.95).
Puhl,neW ec*'t'on °f a classic study originally 'vith'S"et* 'n examines man’s struggle
cal i-ear 'n combat. Moran served as a medi- p “ licer with the First Battalion of the Royal Sl lers during World War 1 and as Winston ^ j^hill’s doctor during World War II. This v',hil ^feW 0Ut op tbe c'eta"el' diaries he kept ten e treat‘n8 and observing men in battle; it is st^ *re<l reading for those who would underim tbe Phenomenon of war and its effects “Pon the human spirit.
M^erate Navy Chief: Stephen R.
0fsph Durkin, S.J. Columbia, SC: University publish Carolina Press, 1987, Reprint. Originally U)54S ^ hy University of North Carolina Press,
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dij,”"[1]^.°f the University of South Carolina’s series^U'S^e<^ "Classics *n Maritime History” fetl ’ this biography of one of the Con- turesaS m°St caPab'e cabinet members cap- hiitt man s personal as well as historical f]e(nSi0ns- ^s Secretary of the Navy in a that*’ 'anc' short-lived) nation, with a navy chaUC0U,d bare|y he called one, Mallory faced fteri eJ^es that would have taxed the ablest of 'hoy |TUrhin concludes that he “did well, al- 'Perf Perhaps, not brilliantly,” and he 0rmed with moral integrity.” :°;d Fri^
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Sovie^°nternporary nove' revo'ves around a °ilfiel jlnvas'on °f Saudi Arabia to capture the days hS tbere- The scenario spans only four 'v°rld Ut t*'£ tensi°n is thick throughout as the teeters on the brink of disaster.
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Southwest Asia, as a threat to the world’s main supply of imported oil, and as the source of new lessons regarding the nature of modern war,” Cordesman concludes that the Gulf War is “of critical importance to Western security.” His timely work provides important background information about a struggle that is having a significant impact upon the United States, and the Navy in particular.
The Navy V-12 Program: Leadership for a Lifetime
James G. Schneider. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1987. 608 pp. Photos. Append. Notes. Bib. Ind. $29.45 ($26.50).
World War II demanded that the Navy create thousands of new officers. The “V-12 Program,” which called upon 131 civilian colleges and universities to fill that need, became the nation’s most prolific source of Navy and Marine officers, producing more than 60,000 before war’s end. Many of the schools would not have survived the low-enrollment years of the war without V-12. This book recounts the story of this important program and describes the contributions many of the participants made in the years that followed.
Patrick N. L. Bellinger and U. S. Naval Aviation
Paolo E. Coletta. Lanham, MD: University Press of America, 1987. 477 pp. Photos. Notes. Bib.
Ind. $28.75.
Spanning the years from the dawn of naval aviation to the tumultuous times of World War II, Admiral Patrick Bellinger’s 40-year career included service as a pioneer test pilot, instructor, administrator, planner, and flag officer. As one of the Navy’s earliest fliers, Bellinger set altitude and long-distance seaplane flight records. As Commander Air Force Atlantic, his last major billet, he played a key role in the defeat of the German U-boats in the Battle of the Atlantic. This biography by a noted historian is the first to recount the colorful life of U. S. Naval Aviator No. 8.
The Persian Gulf and the West: The Dilemmas of Security
Charles A. Kupchan. Winchester, MA: Allen & Unwin, 1987. 270 pp. Maps. Tables. Figs. Notes. Bib. Ind. $39.95 ($35.95) hardcover. $14.95 ($13.45) paper.
Kupchan analyzes, among other things, the impact upon the Persian Gulf of the Iranian Revolution and the Soviet Union’s invasion of Afghanistan, and examines the inability of NATO to form a cooperative strategy with respect to the region. He unveils three central strategic dilemmas: strategy versus capability, globalism versus regionalism, and unilateralism versus collectivism.
Qualifying for Admission to the Service Academies: A Student’s Guide
Robert F. Collins. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group, 1987. 142 pp. Photos. Append. Ind. $12.95 ($11.65).
This concise guide provides admissions requirements and procedures for the Military, Naval, Air Force, Coast Guard, and Merchant Marine academies. For each academy there is
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E2 Some Principles of Maritime Strategy
Sir Julian Corbett. Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 1988. $23.95 ($19.16).
This venerable work, initiating the Naval Institute’s Classics of Sea Power series, explores the value and limitations of applying theory to naval warfare. Many regard Sir Julian Corbett as the foremost British naval-strategic historian, and his work ranks with those of Clausewitz and Mahan. When this book was originally published in 1911, a London Times reviewer wrote, “We can only say that we do not know where to look for a more coherent . . . exposition of the true principles of naval warfare. ...” That coherence and a cogent explanation of the interdependence of land and sea operations make Some Principles a timeless work, useful for gaining a better understanding of current maritime thinking as well as naval strategies of the past.
Soviet Strategic Deception
Brian D. Dailey and Patrick J. Parker, Editors. Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. 559 pp. Tables. Figs. Gloss. Notes. Ind. $49.00 ($44.10).
Eminent scholars, intelligence analysts, and policymakers contribute their expertise to this analysis of the Soviet Union’s manipulation of Western perceptions. The writers reveal the Soviets’ use of propaganda, policy statements, military deception, and a host of other tactics, and analyze their impact upon U. S. national security planning.
Space and National Security
Paul B. Stares. Washington DC: Brookings, 1987. 236 pp. Tables. Figs. Append. Gloss. Notes. Ind. $28.95 ($26.05) hardcover. $10.95 ($9.85) paper.
This timely work carefully examines the military space programs of the Soviet Union and the United States. Contending that the U. S. program falls short in a number of areas, including misplaced priorities in the development of antisatellite weapons, Stares offers “ detailed alternative strategy for the Unite States in space.
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American and Soviet Relations Since Detente: The Framework
Terry L. Heyns. Washington, DC: Nation3' Defense University Press, 1987. 244 PP- Photos, lllus. Tables. Append. Notes. Bi • Ind. $8.00 ($7.20) paper.
An Illustrated Guide to Modern Fighter Combat
Mike Spick. New York: Prentice Hall (ArC° Military Book), 1987. 155 pp. Photos. WuS- Tables. $9.95 ($8.95).
Ships of the Victorian Navy
Conrad Dixon. Southhampton, England: AsP ford Press, 1987. Distributed in the U. S- J Sheridan House, Inc., Dobbs Ferry, NY. 1 pp. Photos. Bib. $32.50 ($29.25) hardcover- $19.95 ($17.95) paper.
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Glenn T. Seaborg with Benjamin S. LoU^ Lexington, MA: Lexington Books, 1987. pp. Append. Notes. Ind. $24.95 ($22.45)-
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