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^avies of the ^ efican Revolution
(III °n^ ^reston and David Lyon E Ustrated by John H. Batchelor). l976 CWood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice-Hall,
• 160 pp. uius $14.95.
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°fessor Lewis, who received his Ph.D. from dur~ar^' serve^ ’n the U. S. Naval Reserve (j World War II and has taught at the “nth ^aVa^ J^ca^emy since 1948. He is )/ ^ °r °f several ONI studies of World War co~au,hor of The United States
ijjr °Bd Sea Power and of the Great Sea ejj .’ and has contributed articles to earlier '°ns °f the Proceedings.)
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the IS Vo^ume> obviously designed for in lccntennial trade, aims at convey- v. ^ the flavor Qf 18th-century naval
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p- *'-• rt is by no means a systematic p ory °t the naval war of the American oc^V°luti°n- Illustrations, many in color, do ™ C0nsiclerably more space than re$eS text- The authors were both earch assistants at Britain’s National ti[^rit'rne Museum in Greenwich at the Ee °f the writing of this book and, . Written other works on naval subsCts; ^he illustrator, John H. Batchelor, ing a 12es in technical military draw-
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bv • 6 c^aracter of the book is indicated 'ThS ^VC ^*visions: "A Maritime War,” M ,, Ships,” "The Weapons,” "The r^erb and "The Navies.” The treat- so 1 1S ^roa^ rather than deep, with pj e attention to the Spanish and aS We^ as c^e British, French, and . erican navies. One of the most strik- 8 eatures of the book is the series of colorful illustrations depicting naval dress of the period.
It is in the section entitled "The Navies” that the authors most nearly approach a history of the naval war, but their treatment of some of the battles is less than satisfactory. They call d’Estaing’s engagement with Howe off Rhode Island in 1778 "a sprawling, in
conclusive battle . . . that seems to have convinced both French Admiral d’Estaing, and apparently, Howe as well, that nothing much was to be gained by repeating the engagement.” Actually, the two fleets were on the point of engaging when a hurricane struck. Both were so badly battered that they had to retire to refit. Without French support,
the Americans abandoned their siege of Newport.
Of the decisive battle of the war our authors say, "On 5 September, in what is known as the Battle of the Virginia Capes, . . . the British failed to break through the French line. Before the British could regroup for a second assault, de Grasse was reinforced by the arrival of the French squadron from Newport.” This description gives an erroneous impression. It was not a question of breaking through the French line. As the British approached the entrance of the Chesapeake, the French emerged, and the battle was fought outside the bay. The two fleets maneuvered at sea till the 9th, when de Grasse, having an indication that de Barras had arrived from Newport, broke off and returned to the Chesape ike.
In speaking of the Battle of the Saints in 1782, the last great naval battle of the war and the only significant British victory, the author’s remark that "one ironic result of this action was that de Grasse, the architect of the Yorktown victory, was to become the prisoner of the same British Commander who had failed to break him off the Virginia Capes. This was Admiral Rodney. . . .” But Rodney had not been in command at the Virginia Capes. Because of illness, he had sailed from the West Indies for England on 1 August and had sent Hood, his second in command, north with most of his fleet. Hood had gone to New York, where Graves, as senior, took command of the combined fleet. It was he, not Rodney, who failed to break de Grasse at the Virginia Capes.
Another example of carelessness is the caption of a full-page illustration on page 30: "John Paul Jones, the first Commander-in-Ch'ef of the U. S. Navy in 1776.” In fact, Jones first rose from lieutenant to independent command in 1776. Esek Hopkins is usually regarded as the first Commander-in-Chief of .he Continental Navy. Jones never had that title.
In other respects Jones fares disproportionately well at the hands of our authors. There are three full-page portraits of him, two illustrations of the Ranger capturing the Drake, three of the Bonhomme Richard capturing the Serapis, and one of the Ranger at Quiberon Bay. The same lack of balance is found in the devoting of approximately 18 pages to illustrations of small arms, often very similar.
The reader with some knowledge of naval history will find little in this volume that he does not already know. However, for the tyro it provides a pleasant introduction to 18th-century sea warfare. The volume might make an excellent gift to stir enthusiasm for the subject in a young man of high school age.
The Writings of Stephen B. Luce
John D. Hayes and John B. Hattendorf. Newport, R.I.: U. S. Naval War College, 1975. Illus. 262 pp. (Only a limited number of reference copies are currently available.)
Reviewed by Robert Seager II
(A graduate of the U. S. Merchant Marine Academy in 1944, Robert Seager II subsequently received his Ph.D. in American diplomatic history from Ohio State University and is presently Professor of History and Vice President for Academic Affairs at the University of Baltimore. Dr. Seager with D. D. Maguire is editing the forthcoming Naval Institute book, Letters and Papers of Alfred Thayer Mahan.)
Presented as Volume I in the U. S.. Naval War College Historical Monograph Series, this attractively designed book launches the Series in impressive style. Rear Admiral John D. Hayes and John B. Hattendorf have begun here the filling of a major gap in U. S. naval biography. An introduction to the life and labors of Rear Admiral Stephen Bleecker Luce (1827-1917), this volume belongs on the shelf of every serious student of U. S. naval history. Founder of the Naval War College and mentor to Alfred Thayer Mahan, Luce has too long remained in the shadow of his famous protege. This book pierces that shadow.
If Mahan’s great contribution to the U. S. Navy was to identify the historical concept of sea power, relate the New Navy to it, and harness both to the thrust of American imperialism in the 1890s, Luce’s equally important contribution was to study the New Navy in terms of its educational requirements, administrative organization, logistical needs, and tactical potentialities. Luce
the pragmatist looked forward to Jut land; Mahan the theoretician looks backward to Trafalgar. But together they did much to revolutionize Am can naval thinking on strategy, tactics> and weapons during the era that wit nessed the transition of the wor navies from sail and wood to steam and steel.
To be sure, Luce failed in his flueSt to elevate the study of steam naval tat tics to a scientific discipline; he to discover the "laws” of human nature that would render command decision making a scientific enterprise; the ' Pnn ciples” of naval strategy constan ; eluded him; he failed to evolve a sC1 ence of war” at sea, confusing that n° tion with what he also called the art of war;” and he often blurred the dis tinction between strategy and tactics- But Mahan, Sir John K. Laughton, an other naval historians of that genera tion also failed in similar endeavors. In greater or lesser degree they all & tempted, by argument from historic analogy, to marry land/army tactics t0 sea/fleet tactics. This at best was a shot gun union which slighted rapid changes in naval weaponry and seldom tran scended consideration of firepower con centration in analogous tactical situa tions. Interesting but useless.
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concept, his insistence that the t^aval War College emphasize the his- and principles of naval war as these l [f applicable to practical utilization in !SUadrons evolution,” his interest c e logistical dimensions of Navy
for S' dr^doc^s’ anh bases, his concern Cr ,Pr°hlems relating to personnel rest jment anh retention, and his under- ^1 lnS of the necessary operational ationships between navies and mer- ant marines in time of war.
^JJnlike Mahan, an indifferent seaman _ 0 feared the sea, Luce was a brilliant,
terest in world diplomacy and in in- can^iHg r^e dail>' d'rection of Ameri- mostatecraft was minimal. But in al- st all other matters and concerns |j ano Mahan shared views, often s°!5°Wcd from one another, that were ^ri ingly and consistently similar. Both c prolific, self-taught historians who nged their data in highly selective ys to prove their arguments of the orient ("Facts won’t lie if you work right,” Mahan noted) and frankly essed that their ideas were deriva- thJ' Prom bitter battles fought to save 6 .War College from its civilian and to 'Ce enemies t0 campaigns launched Pj reP°rm the bureau system in the ePartrncnt of the Navy, both men as Crta*ned a vision of the United States a w°rld power armed with a great Co^ t0 protect its possessions and
t and Hattendorf bring all this
lgbt and more in their thoughtful ^ graphical sketch of S. B. Luce. They ave also reprinted and commented P ,n nine of his major articles and book . ews (they might have chosen any of cl j°2en otPers)» and they have coned the volume with a useful anno- D k ■ bibliography of Luce’s numerous 'shed works, together with a chro-
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°rnoting throughout is sometimes cessive and redundant, the book to T aS 2 ma)or scholarly contribution S. naval history.
l *^trr appetites whetted, we must now te°Pe that the publication of Luce’s let- th ’ aS Wed as a definitive biography of e man, will soon be forthcoming.
Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1973-74
Gerhard Albrecht (Editor). Munich: J. F. Lehmanns Verlag, 1973. 496 pp.
Illus. $36.00.
Flottes de Combat 1974
Henri Le Masson and Jean L. Couhat (Editors). Paris: Editions Maritimes Et D’Outre-Mer, 1974. 480 pp. Illus. $48.00.
Almanacco Navale 1975
G. Giorgerini and A. Nani. Rome:
Revista Marittima, 1974. 717 pp. Illus. $26.00.
Reviewed by Richard F. Cross, III
(Mr. Cross is a 1944 graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in naval architecture and marine engineering. He has been connected with advanced seaplane design, nuclear seaplane studies, avionics and surface weapons systems, ship and aircraft integrated combat systems, and the Navy’s DD-963 program. A former manager of Advanced Ship Systems, Pomona Division of the General Dynamics Corporation, Mr. Cross was most recently a management consultant to the Administrator of the Federal Aviation Agency.)
Naval experts in the United States, both amateur and professional, are well acquainted with the British world naval annual, Jane’s Fighting Ships. It is large, exhaustive, expensive, and in English. Internationally, however, there are a number of other world naval annuals which cover the globe’s navies, each doing this in its own unique way. Like Jane’s, all are European, all have been published for a number of years, and all, with the recent trends in international economics, are expensive. The three reviewed here, while the most prominent, are not available in English. With the exception of the Italian Al- manaco Navale, all have been on the market in their current editions for more than a year.
The German Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 197ifl4 is the latest in a well-known series which has been available in English for a number of years through the U. S. Naval Institute, alternating with the original German language version. Weyers for 1973-1974 is one year more current than the latest Institute version of Warships of the World, not, it turns out, a significant difference. This series
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is compact (5 by 7% inches) with a statistically oriented format which is reasonably easy to decipher with the aids provided. It is followed by a section which repeats the countries alphabetically, providing generally excellent profile and plan drawings, as well as a selected number of good, but small photographs. There is a short introduction on the world naval situation which will benefit only those familiar with the German language. There is particularly good coverage of the U. S. and Soviet navies, the last a German specialty.
In summary, Weyers is what you want if you’re traveling. It’s a bit like an international version of the old Fahey’s The Ships and Aircraft of the United States Fleet series: lots of coded information in a little space with the added attraction of a series of good profiles. Its disadvantages are the separation of statistics and graphics, the German language, and price. For those interested who are not comfortable in German, the English 1973 edition is the way to go. The small amount of new information in the later German 19731974 version is not worth the price.
Larger and organized more like Jane’s, but with a French flair and in the French language is Flottes de Combat 1974. It is issued biannually in the fall of each odd year. It, too, is expanded this year both
in size and price. It contains no formalized silhouette series but its photographs (refreshingly different from those available from other published sources) and information are generally up to date. Flottes’ strengths are the French Navy, which comes first, and the Soviet fleet which is particularly well represented photographically. The editors’ comment, not as incisively written as in previous years, is in both French and English, as
are a series of tables and definitions explaining the language equivalent. The editor sees the U. S. Navy as clearly the largest, most balanced navy in the world with the Russians working to catch up—not a particularly new thought.
Flottes de Combat provides adequate means for the average U. S. reader to effectively translate all of its statistics. Only the individual remarks sections, solely written in French, are difficult to handle for one limited to the English language. The cover, as always, is outstanding—this year featuring a full color picture of the new French antisubmarine warfare escort Tourville.
Finally there is Almanaco Navale 1975, probably the least known to U. S. readers of the three and the least expensive. It is sponsored by the Italian equivalent of the Naval Institute, Revista Marittima, and its authors Giorgio Gio- gerini and Augusto Nani are well known in naval literary circles over the past few decades, the latter for some excellent line art work. The book is entirely in Italian, although there is the usual multi-language conversion card which makes it possible for the non-
Italian reader to do a fair amount of interpreting. Included in the book is a colorful section on mercantile and naval flags, a new profile section (all to a common scale), and then the navies of the world in alphabetical order. Almanaco Navale is selectively illustrated with drawings which are fair to excellent and with photographs which are poorly reproduced—unusual for the Italians.
Of the books reviewed here, the Italian volume is the best buy since its price is least and it has the most up-to-date information—largely because it is the latest of the three to be issued.
All three, along with Jane’s, trade common intelligence, photographs, and, to a degree, each others’ silhouette studies. The new drawings of the USS Franklin D. Roosevelt (CVA-42) in Almanaco Navale 1975 are almost identical with those in the new Weyers. Thus there is little need to have one of each of these books unless there is some specialized need such as examining the world’s navies through the eyes of the particular sponsoring country.
All three books are good, professional, and generally well laid out. The Italian Almanaco Navale is perhaps the best in this respect; the French Flottes de Combat is the most definitive in the data presented; and the German Flotten- taschenbuch is the most compact and
organized. Unfortunately, there those who feel they have done an complete job if they have been ur>a ^ to consult all three on some vital aspe of current naval history. This review ^ falls into that category, and the c°st frightening.
The Mariner’s Catalog, Volumes 1 & 2
David R. Getchell, Peter H. Spectre, ^ George Putz (Editors). Camden, Maine’ National Fisherman and International Marine Publishing Co., 1973 & 1974- ^ & 191 pp. Illus. $4.95 each (paper).
Reviewed by Victor Jorgensen
(Victor Jorgensen resigned from the U. $■ Naval Reserve as a lieutenant at the conclusion of World War II after having filled numerous combat assignments in the special photographic unit led by Captain F J Steichen that recorded many of the U. S- Navy’s actions at sea. He now is publisher-editor of "The Telltale Compass, a newsletter for yachtsmen.')
There is little question that the se still attracts the individualist—the who must march to the tattoo of 1 own drum—and there is even less tion that it requires individualists furnish those drummers with the mu ^ form gear, gadgets, and suppl>eS mariners need. .
Recognizing the difficulty of find*n£ marine supplies and the answers to iners’ questions, three highly indiv* ualistic editors associated with f ^ notably individualistic marine tabl°‘ National Fisherman set about coUeC ing notes on sources they and the* readers had found for a fantastic varied of marine items. These were first asset0 bled in a paperback catalog in 1973, k°c with the announced intent of maki°$ it an annual publication if reader sup port was forthcoming. It was, and c second volume was published late 'aSt year, with a third reportedly now l0 progress. ^
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tQ je<^*tor'a^ inclination, obviously, is Wa Sr C^e man wh° wants to make his the^ °n water by his own hand, and Han6 *S 2 ^e^n'te h*as for the traditional proMu ^om8 *f. Volume 2 includes Sm ,.a P che most comprehensive list of extant °at ^U*^ers °ir traditional craft
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tj)ee coyerage is broad, ranging from sn uCornrnercial fisherman’s sources for the nin8s as sinkers and seine nets to ArkSfna^ ^rms st‘h carefully fashioning cut ansas ^ard stones, cast iron stoves, ha C°PPer nads and boat nails, Copen- ^h^H sbip curves, and even a man Saturns out birch bark canoes in the thrC fashion as the Indians.
SUc^U&^ both volumes are '< t0P‘cs as the proper tools for the s;0ect boatshop; a pungent discus- q0 boatbuilding as it used to be by
th Ptain R. D (Pete) Culler) who built
hca rna^n'bcent yawl boats for the rep- a °f the schooner yacht America, and
who has an unbounded faith and belief in the old ways which will be difficult for even the most hard-nosed progressive to discount. On the other hand, there also is a report on modern adhesives by John Gardner, one of the nation’s most active and vocal small boatmen, and such fascinating tidbits as how to "jiggle in” a net stake and how to make a spiling board to shape a hull plank.
These catalogs also contain hundreds of book critiques not only of recent marine books, but also the classics which again provide the clues to sources of long- and short-standing information on almost any conceivable marine question, no matter how arcane.
In both volumes, subjects are grouped roughly under such headings as "boatbuilding, tools, fastenings, forging, ship-models, marine engines, multihulls,” etc:, but both include quite thorough indexes. Still, it will be the rare delver who, having found his item via the index, doesn’t discover that he has been trapped into reading something else on that page . . . and on the next . . . and the next.
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NAVAL AFFAIRS
Bilddokumente aus Osterreich-Ungarns Seekrieg: 1914-1918
Nikolaus von Martiny. Graz, Austria: Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt, 1973.
Two volumes, 405 pp. Illus. 110 DM.
The Austro-Hungarian Navy fought with distinction in what are probably the least known naval campaigns of World War I, maintaining command of the Adriatic against heavy odds and conducting coastal and riverine operations in support of land forces. Its activities are superbly illustrated in these volumes by 235 full-page plates and ten maps, the text to each of which is conveniently positioned on the facing page. The second edition of a work originally appearing in 1939, its new materials include an introduction by Professor Anthony Sokol, whose history of the Imperial and Royal Austro-Hungarian Navy was published by the Naval Institute Press.
[il The Royal Navy in Old Photographs
Wilfrid Pym Trotter, M.C. Annapolis, Md.:
Naval Institute Press, 1975. 178 pp. Illus.
$12.50 ($10.00).
The days when Britannia ruled the waves are recalled by this splendid collection of photographs of the ships of the Royal Navy and the life led on board them at the high noon of the Pax Britannica, from the mid- 19th century to the eve of World War I. Most of the plates, many of them never before published, are from Mr. Trotter’s personal collection.
Seemacht und Geschichte: Festschrift zum 80. Geburtstag von Friedrich Ruge
Deutsches Marine Institut (Editor). Bonn-Bad Godesberg, Germany: MOV-Verlag, 1975.
304 pp. Illus. Price not yet available.
The magnitude of the scope and distinction of the career of Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Federal German Navy (Retired), is indicated by the fact that among his decorations are the Iron Cross 1914, the Knights’. Cross of the Iron Cross 1939, and the United States Legion of Merit. The provenance of the first two are self-evident; the third was awarded him upon his retirement as first chief of the Federal German Navy in 1961. The essays collected in this bilingual Festschrift, issued in honor of his 80th birthday, reflect Admiral Ruge’s lifelong interest in the history and applications of sea power. Among the distinguished contributors are Admirals Arleigh Burke and Ernest M. Eller, Dr. Philip K. Lundeberg, Commander Peter Kemp, General Hans Speidel, Captain Friedrich Forstmeier, Dr. Jurgen Rohwer, and Manfred Rommel.
MARITIME AFFAIRS
Cape Cod Fisherman
Phil Schwind. Camden, Me.: International
Marine Publishing Company, 1974. 224 pp.
Illus. $8.95.
Phil Schwind turned to the sea as a means of keeping body and soul together in the midst of the Great Depression. In this plain- spoken memoir he describes his 30 years as a commercial fisherman and charter boat operator.
China Tea Clippers
George F. Campbell. New York: David McKay, 1974. 156 pp. Illus. $12.95.
The China tea clippers of the last century represented a peak in sailing design. In this large-format volume, a member of the Royal Institute of Naval Architects explains and illustrates the features which made the China clippers unique.
[5] The Great Days of Sail
Andrew Shewan. Annapolis, Md.: Naval Institute Press, 1974. 240 pp. Illus. $10.75 ($8.60).
Andrew Shewan became captain of the
China clipper Norman Court at the age 23. That was in 1873. Around half-a-cent^ ^ later he wrote these memoirs, first publ>s in 1927. They constitute an insider s vl of the last, great days of sail.
The Great Eastern: An Illustrated Description of the Great Steam Ship
The Great Eastern, launched in 1859, ^
a landmark in naval architecture—692 from stem to stern, with an iron double I>n compartmentalization, and other fwc ^ which made her not only the largest technologically most advanced ship buil[ 1 that date, but in many respects the m influential ship of the century. This intf*f!u ing little book is a facsimile reprint, c0 plete to the original advertisements, 0 "paperback special” published in London celebrate her launching.
E3 Heavy Weather Sailing
K. Adlard Coles. Tuckahoe, N.Y.: John De Graff, 1975. 331 pp. Illus. $15.00.
Since its appearance in 1967, over 60,0^j copies of this study of storms and survi'
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v0i Vo'ume is the first in a projected four- the C P'ctor‘al survey of the evolution of stea^mcrchant ship —ocean liner, tramp ccntu-. freighter, and tanker—over the past trate ^ ®'Shty pages of color plates illus- ti0 '^0 vessels, the history and specifica- s °f which are set forth in the text.
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A § °re Petroleum and New England: Con °f che Regional Economic Snd SQCluences °f Potential Offshore Oil $5n(.ers*tf °f Rhode Island, 1975. 114 pp. Illus. j (paper).
atteecent years the search for oil has drawn Ati ntl0n Co the petroleum potential of the nj^hC'c Outer Continental Shelf. One of the QCor Pr°mising areas for exploration is apB ®es Bank, a fishing ground covering coasItOX*mate'l' L 1,000 square miles off the '''ork ^ew England. This monograph, the KCsq °f a member of the Department of ](h ,rce Economics at the University of e Island, investigates the probable economic and environmental impact on New England of a hypothetical development of Georges Bank oil and gas fields.
MILITARY AFFAIRS
. . . And Kill MIGs: Air to Air Combat in the Vietnam War
Lou Drendel. Warren, Mich.: Squadron/Signal Publications, 1974. 63 pp. Illus. $6.95 (paper).
During the Vietnam War the entrances to the 432nd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing’s flight line carried two signs. The first read, "Our Mission: Protect the Force, get the pictures,” The second read, "And kill MIGs.” This handsomely illustrated, episodic account of aerial combat over North Vietnam uses the pilots’ own words to tell how that was accomplished. Navy aces Randy Cunningham and Willie Driscoll’s five victories are among the actions described.
The Art of War: Waterloo to Mons
William McElwee. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1975. 346 pp. Illus. $10.95.
This study examines the evolution of the art of war from 1855 to 1914, with a brief background on the Napoleonic heritage. The author, formerly Head of the Modern Subjects Department at Sandhurst, argues that this period can be called the Age of Moltke, after the Prussian military intellectual whose thought was its dominating influence. He finds that influence unfortunate, in that by 1914 it had given rise to armies too unwieldy to control, and undermined the relatively civilized standards of 18th and early 19th century European warfare.
Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power
Colonel Alfred F. Hurley, U. S. Air Force. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press, 1975. 190 pp. Illus. $10.00 ($2.95 paper).
The stormy life of General Billy Mitchell receives balanced treatment in the new edition of a well researched biography first published in 1964. An appendix offers additional insights provided by recent scholarship and the opening of materials inaccessible at the original date of publication.
Green Beach
James Leasor. New York: William Morrow, 1975. 292 pp. Illus. $8.95.
In August 1942, 5,000 British and Canadian troops stormed ashore at Dieppe, on the channel coast of France, in the largest and costliest raid of World War II. Among them was Jack Nissenthall, a young English radar expert who had volunteered to examine a German radar station on a cliff above Green Beach. Privy to the top secrets of Allied radar technology, Nissenthall was accompanied by a detail of sharpshooters ordered to see that he did not fall into German hands—even if that necessitated killing him first. British journalist James Leasor talked to many of the principals involved in reconstructing the story of Nissenthall’s perilous mission.
Marines in the Dominican Republic: 1916-1924
Captain Stephen M. Fuller, U. S. Marine Corps Reserve and Graham A. Cosmas. Washington, D.C.: History and Museums Division Headquarters, U. S. Marine Corps, (U. S. Government Printing Office) 1974. 109 pp.
Illus. $1.90 (paper).
Original research in primary sources, including interviews conducted by the Oral History Unit of the Marine Corps Historical Division, provides the basis for this well-documented account of Marine operations in the Dominican Republic, 1916-1924. These operations went through three phases: the initial intervention, 1916; the suppression of banditry, which involved training the new Dominican Constabulary, 1917-1921; and the withdrawal, 1922-1924. Over 60 evocative illustrations complement the text.
INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS
Chemical Disarmament:
New Weapons for Old
New York: Humanities Press, 1975. 151 pp.
Sw. kr. 49.50.
This monograph, a publication of the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute, describes recent developments in chemical warfare technology—notably, binary nerve gas weapons—and reviews chemical disarmament conferences and workshops in 1974. Selected papers from some of these meetings discuss methods of destruction of chemical stockpiles and the problems of verification thereof.
The Right to Conduct Nuclear Explosions: Political Aspects and Policy Proposals
Alva Myrdal. Stockholm, Sweden: Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), 1975, 24 pp. Free (paper).
Some of the political aspects of the nuclear proliferation problem, especially in regard to the Non-Proliferation Treaty of 1970, are examined in brief. The author was chief Swedish delegate to the disarmament negotiations in Geneva and at the United Nations, 1962-1973.
White House where, as Administrate sistant to the President, he was a rne
Safeguards Against Nuclear Proliferation
Benjamin Sanders. Cambridge, Mass.: The M.I.T. Press, 1975. 114 pp. Sw. kr. 49.50.
Article III of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty gave the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) the responsibility of applying international safeguards to ensure that nonnuclear countries do not undertake the manufacture of nuclear weapons. The object of this Stockholm International Peace Research Institute monograph is to review the operation of IAEA safeguards and to discuss some of the problems involved.
Soviet Europe
Donald R. Shanor. New York: Harper & Row, 1975. 252 pp. $10.95.
Following the tradition of John Gunther’s famous "Inside” series, David Shanor, an American journalist experienced in Eastern European affairs, provides an informal introduction to the six Soviet satellites—Bulgaria, Czechoslovakia, East Germany, Hungary, Poland, and Romania.
GENERAL
Brezhnev: The Masks of Power
John Dornberg. New York: Basic Books, 1974. 317 pp. Ulus. $10.00.
Despite his decade at stage center of world affairs, personally Leonid Brezhnev remains almost unknown. John Dornberg, a Munich-based journalist specializing in Soviet affairs, provides a picture of the man and an assessment of his rule in this necessarily tentative biography.
Dolphins
Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Philippe Diole (Translated by J. F. Bernard). Garden City,
N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975. 304 pp. Illus. $12.95.
Even before Flipper, most people probably felt the dolphin to be a most attractive and intriguing sea creature. In this lavishly illustrated volume, Cousteau combines descriptions of his own and others’ encounters with dolphins with a survey of research on dolphin intelligence and communication.
Great Diving—I
Judy and Dean May. Harrisburg, Pa.; Stackpole Books, 1974. 256 pp. Illus. $3.95 (paper).
In the first of a planned two-volume set, a husband and wife team offers an underwater Baedeker of the eastern United States and the Gulf Coast containing detailed information on dive sites and shops, charter boat services, local salvage and underwater fishing laws, and much else.
Japanese-American Relations
Donald C. Hellmann (Moderator). Washington, D.C.: American Enterprise Institute for Public Policy Research, 1975. 27 pp. $1.50 (paper).
In December 1974 the American Enterprise Institute sponsored a round-table discussion on the future of Japanese-American relations. Moderated by Professor Donald C. Hellmann of the University of Washington at Seattle, the panel consisted of Senator Hubert H. Humphrey, Senator Ted Stevens, Deputy Secretary of State Robert S. Ingersoll (former U. S. ambassador to Japan), and Philip Caldwell, executive vice president for
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international automotive operations, Motor Company. This pamphlet reC0 their proceedings.
White House Witness
Jonathan Daniels. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1975. 299 pp. Illus. $8.95.
Journalist Jonathan Daniels, the son Woodrow Wilson’s Secretary of the * went to Washington to become assis director of Civilian Defense in 1942- P the year was out he had been called to
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period he kept a diary whose contents, minated and enlarged by his recollect1 provide an insider’s view of the Roose' White House at war.
REISSUE Truman Speaks
Harry S. Truman. New York: Columbia University Press, 1975. 132 pp. Illus. $7.00 ($2.95 paper).
The exhiliarating candor and pithy which made Plain Speaking a best seller evident in this transcript of Harry S. Trum3 ^ appearance in the William Radner LeC series at Columbia University in April 1 Following each of his three lectures, ^ Truman conducted an uninhibited *1 (S tion-and-answer period in which stu asked for his comments on subjects r*ne from abuse of the Fifth Amendment to ^ decision to drop the atomic bomb. The was originally published in I960.
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