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Key to Victory: The Triumph of British Sea Power in World War II
By P. K. Kemp. Boston: Little, Brown & Co., 1958. 383 pages. 37 illustrations, 10 maps, index. $6.00.
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral J. B. Heffernan, USN (Ret.).
(Admiral Heffernan until recently was Director of Naval History in the Navy Department and is a former Assistant Editor of the Proceedings.)
The author has told the entire story of the British Navy’s operations in one compact volume. In the process he has indicated how sea power affected the entire struggle and was decisive in so many theaters as well as in the ultimate result. The style is easy and clear, and one obtains an understanding of the world-wide events. It is a remarkable achievement in that so many facts are successfully presented in comparatively few words.
The reader is impressed by the continuing efforts of the War Cabinet to interfere in the details of operations at sea. These acts of the War Cabinet led to similar interferences by the First Sea Lord, and nothing in the record indicates that the intuition of the eminent gentlemen in London was superior to that of Hitler himself. It seems almost incredible that the Commander-in-Chief of the Home Fleet at Scapa should have been told from London that the danger of an invasion of Britain was “very real.” Yet in spite of the carefully reasoned protests of Admiral Forbes he was deprived of his cruisers and destroyers and these vessels were deployed in a manner contrary to all British experience of good naval strategy.
The author praises many officers for their contributions to victory, especially Admiral of the Fleet Lord Cunningham. Certainly Cunningham’s performance entitles him to rank with the great leaders who have given the Royal Navy its proudest traditions. Cunningham’s strength of character enabled him to accomplish what he did, because he received more than his share of illogical directives and had to protest vigorously and often. The German Grand Admiral, Raeder, is described as “a brilliant strategist” who gave excellent advice which was never taken.
Kemp is a Lieutenant Commander, Royal Navy, retired, who lost a leg in submarine service in World War I. He served as Admiralty Librarian for a number of years, and has headed the Historical Section of the Admiralty since 1956. He has published H.M. Destroyers, H.M. Submarines, Fleet Air Arm. and other books.
Mr. Lincoln’s Navy
By Richard S. West, Jr. New York: Longmans, Green and Co., 1957. 328 pages with
index. $6.50.
How the “Merrimac” Won
By R. W. Daly. New York: Thomas Y.
Crowell Co., 1957. 211 pages with index.
$4.00.
REVIEWED BY
Commander William J. Morgan, USJ\R
(Dr. Morgan is Head of the Historical Research Section, Naval History Division, Navy Department.)
The shelves bulge and groan under the weight of a never ending torrent of books examining each minute detail of the fascinating American Bilrgerkrieg, our all engulfing family struggle of a hundred years ago. Just when you become absolutely certain that everything conceivable about Mr. Lincoln (the placing of “Mr.” before the great man’s name is rapidly becoming a shibboleth in Civil War literature) has been committed to print along comes another and another in the “Mr.” series. Yet remarkably enough in this gushing outpour, precious little has been written about the Civil War navies. These two fine works by U. S. Naval Academy faculty members are particularly welcome.
In Mr. Lincoln’s Navy, Professor West surveys the wide spectrum of Federal naval effort: the colossal and strangling blockade;
war against colorful Confederate raiders on the high seas; amphibious operations with the Army along the enemy coast; and the inland river actions which opened the Mississippi and split the Confederacy.
It is no mean task to compress the vast panorama of Civil War naval operations into a meaningful, authoritative, and readable one- volume package. Mr. Lincoln’s Navy accomplishes this in admirable fashion. A very occasional factual lapse, e.g. crediting a “David” torpedo boat with sinking the USS Housatonic when this was actually the work of the Confederate submarine H. L. Hunley operating on the surface, does minimal damage to the general excellence of this book.
West somehow finds the space to include a number of interesting asides and to take us into the Navy Department of Gideon Welles, the Secretary who was “given to secret speculation, and silent and even crafty analyses of the men who served under him,” and Assistant Secretary Gustavus Fox, “open, hearty, jovial, ready at all times to let anyone fill his ear with gossip so long as he had patriotic intent and a genuine desire to get the job done.” This contrasting but complementary pair, “the one sitting quietly at the helm holding a steady course, the effervescent assistant forever darting here and yonder to seek out the best channel to steer through,” forged the mightiest navy in the world.
Each of Professor West’s chapters, for example, “Farragut on the River” or “Du Pont and Dahlgren at Charleston,” which the author renders as fine individual portraits rather than parts of an integrated mural, are in themselves rewarding subjects for investigation and worthy of a full volume. To this end, Professor Daly has selected the brief career of one of the parties to the most celebrated ironclad duel in history, and the result of his labors is a completely delightful, thought compelling, and truly “rare” book, How the Merrimac Won.
Daly gives the barest possible attention to the actual Monitor-Merrimack (some 20 years ago, after a review of the matter in the Office of Naval Records and Library, the Secretary of the Navy officially recommended that Merrimack be spelled with a “k”) clash which he classifies as a “lazy little battle” meriting slight discussion. He concedes a tactical vie*
tory to Lieutenant Worden and the Monitor whose dramatic arrival in Hampton Roads thwarted the Merrimack's attempt to destroy the stranded USS Minnesota. However, Daly’s plausible thesis, developed from incomplete Confederate records, is that the long range strategic victory went to the Merrimack.
The Daly thesis, in essence, is that the Monitor cannot be credited with saving the Union blockade from the casemated Confederate monster since the Merrimack was built solely as a harbor defense vessel and never intended as a blockade breaking instrument. Daly assumes that the much publicized plans for an attack on Washington or a dash to New York was so much window-dressing designed for internal politics and to infect the Yankees with a bad case of Merrimack jitters.
After her fight with the Monitor, the Merrimack retained undisputed control of Hampton Roads and the James River. Thereby she denied to General George McClellan the mobility which Federal naval strength should have assured him, and “reduced his original sweeping plan of invasion by the James to a snail’s-pace, slogging march up the peninsula, fixing him in irretrievable commitment to be trapped, defeated, and cast forth in disgrace by the remorseless generalship of Johnston and Lee.” Thus in 1862, “she defeated Lincoln and his government in their hopes of winning a short war”—this was the Merrimack's stunning strategic triumph. The Confederate ironclad “personified that silent, corrosive, deadly pressure of sea power so eloquently explained by Mahan.”
Twilight of the Sea Gods
By Thaddeus V. Tuleja. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1958. 284 pages, maps, photographs. $3.95.
REVIEWED BY
Associate Professor Philip K. Lundeberg
(Dr. Lundeberg, presently on the faculty of the U. S. Naval Academy, formerly was research assistant to Rear Admiral S. E. Morison, USNR (Ret.), historian of U. S. Naval operations in World War II.)
In this dramatic and somewhat imaginative chronicle of the Third Reich’s Navy during World War II, the principal commanders of
the Kriegsmarine have achieved an apotheosis that rivals those accorded the leaders of history’s most glamorous lost causes. Indeed one may search postwar German naval literature in vain to find a book as frankly and richly biographical in character. A veteran himself of both the Atlantic and Pacific, Mr. Tuleja has deliberately fashioned his work not as an exhaustive analysis of strategy and tactics but as “a portrait of naval men, the sea battles they fought, their victories and defeats, and the death they each accepted as the inevitable judgment of the gods of war.” The author has effectively knit together eight major combat narratives, projecting them against a tragic backdrop of nordic mythology and sea lore. Although slightly overworked, this primordial theme rings strikingly true to those who know the grimly vibrant record of the Reich’s ill- fated naval struggle.
While Twilight of the Sea Gods bears superficial structural resemblance to Cajus D. Bekker’sZU/rat at Sea, its author has assiduously exploited both available publications and personal contacts overseas to inject an unusual wealth of portraiture into his narrative, be it of the ebullient Gunther Prien at Scapa Flow, the amiable Ernst-Felix Kriider ranging the Indian Ocean in his disguised raider, the Pinguin, or the stoical, painfully remote Gunther Lutjens, briefly triumphant after the Bismarck's destruction of HMS Hood. One finds a magnificent evocation of wind and weather as well as shell bursts and torpedo explosions in those ghastly encounters that saw the men of the Royal Oak, the Bismarck, the Scharnhorst, and the Tirpitg carried to
their doom. In high-spirited contrast to such searing episodes is the well-rounded account of Vizeadmiral Otto Ciliax’s superbly executed Channel Dash, which early in 1942 shifted German surface strength from western France ports to the Arctic. It is only with the Scharnhorst’s dogged sacrifice at Christmas, 1943 that the tragic impact of the Kriegsma- nne’s fate is fully driven home. In narrating the mounting hopelessness of Hitler’s last seaworthy battleship, bereft of radar as British heavy units approach for the kill, Tuleja brilliantly epitomizes her commanders in Rae- der’s prophetic words four years earlier,
‘ • . . they can do no more than show that they know how to die gallantly.”
While similar portraits of Allied naval figures are overdue, the reviewer must register a caveat over our author’s imaginative insights into the final thoughts of these ill-starred German commanders. Doubtless the Scharnhorst' s embattled Erich Bey realized that there Was no escape as the Duke of York found his range, yet one wonders who indeed might assert with certainty that the Konteradmiral ‘felt a strange tranquility that was beyond all hope.” Quite plausible indeed, but we are clearly beyond the historical record. One observes these occasional projections with regret, for Mr. Tuleja has obviously buttressed his work with a rich fund of demonstrable fact. His assessments of both Raeder and Doenitz reflect a mature evaluation of their uigh impossible tasks and of the doughty fashion in which these sea lords vindicated the honor of their service in defeat.
Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia, Third Edition
New York: D. Van Nostrand Co., Inc., 1958. 1,839 pages. $30.00.
REVIEWED by
Professor Vernon D. Tate, USNA
(Dr. Tate is Librarian, U. S. Naval Academy, and formerly was Director of Libraries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology.)
First published in 1938, Van Nostrand’s Scientific Encyclopedia provided 10,000 defini- jtons and explanations of terms of scientific interest in twelve categories ranging from
Aeronautics to Zoology. Edited by a distinguished panel of specialists, alphabetically arranged and fully cross-referenced, the 1,234 page volume became at once a popular and most useful reference work. The second edition, 1947, continued the same general plan but was enlarged to include additional fields and the number of pages increased to 1,600. The present third edition of 1,839 pages has been completely revised and brought up to date. The pages are larger in size; they have been printed in a new highly readable type and many more illustrations, twelve pages in color, have been included. Coverage has increased to 26 fields with the addition of Television, Guided Missiles, Nuclear Science, and Engineering. The text, concise without being cryptic, is well suited for the general reader or the specialist out of his own general field. Over 14,000 separate articles and 100,000 definitions are claimed. Modern terms of usage sometimes derived from abbreviations and difficult to find have been included, as for example sonar, loran, and tacon; even sputnik has not been overlooked. Cross references continue to be excellent, and a new feature, a thumb-cut alphabetic index facilitates quick reference. Larger and better in every way than its predecessors, and it must be said considerably more expensive, this volume is an indispensable reference source for libraries and laboratories.
Helmet for My Pillow
By Robert Leckie. New York: Random
House, 1957. 312 pages. $3.95.
reviewed by
Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., USMC
(Colonel Heinl is currently on duty at Marine Corps
Headquarters, Washington, D. C. He is a frequent
contributor to the Proceedings.)
Helmet for my Pillow, by Robert Leckie, a World War II veteran of the 1st Marine Division, is an authentic private’s-eye view of that division’s war from Guadalcanal to Peleliu. It is written with sensitivity and insight, and with a decent, tacit pride which does the author much credit.
The book follows a sequence which is in-
evitably familiar—boot camp (Parris Island), New River, the Guadalcanal Campaign, the fleshpots of Melbourne, the New Britain campaign, and Peleliu, which finally shattered the author. On this framework Mr. Leckie has built an expressive, human, vivid story. By his own telling, he was by no means a model Marine (one section of the book is significantly titled “Brig Rat”). In his unsparing, often searing characterizations of many of those above him, both officers and noncommissioned officers, it would be easy to dismiss Leckie as a “Bolshevik,” or at least a smart aleck. I do not think he was, or that the book should be so construed. I would regard him as an individual, a distinct individual—one of the “characters” whom the Marine Corps digests without real harm either to itself or to the man. The detached, penetrating yet humane approach which marks Helmet for my Pillow supports this conclusion.
This book will be compared with Battle Cry, the best-selling Marine Corps novel by Mr. Leon Uris. Neither author, I am afraid, would be wholly pleased at the comparison, yet the two books have a great deal in common, if only in the raw material. Of the two, Helmet for my Pillow is better written and more mature, a real piece of craftsmanship. As a considered view of what the World War II Marine Corps amounted to, as seen by one of the volunteer privates who, after all, did most of the fighting, this book deserves to be read and to survive.
H. M. S. “Warspite”
By Captain S. W. Roskill, R.N. London: Collins Publishers, 1957. 319 pages, 14 illustrations. 25 shillings.
REVIEWED BY
Major Reginald Hargreaves, M.C.
{Major Hargreaves is a frequent contributor to the Proceedings, having hadfourteen articles published up to the present time. He is a World War I combat veteran of British military campaigns in France and Gallipoli.')
The British Navy’s inveterate habit of handing on to a successor the name of a vessel sunk in acdon or relegated to the ship- breaker’s yard, is apt to be a little baffling to
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THE SEVENTH WARSPITE the uninitiated. Thus to refer to the gallant little Victory of the Armada fight tends to bring a rather glazed look to the eye of the individual whose acquaintance with craft so named is limited to the stately “Sail of the Line” on whose quarter-deck Nelson suffered his mortal injury.
It is much the same in the case of the Warspite, the story of whose seven incarnations Captain Roskill tells with such infectious zest. The earliest warship to bear the name was launched in 1596. The author’s main concern, however, is with the seventh and last Warspite to take the seas; one of the mightiest “battle wagons” begotten of the Dreadnought era, when the “all-big-gun” doctrine dominated naval thinking. Launched in 1913, this 30,000-ton, 25-knot giant was a floating platform for eight 15-inch guns; a marine monster such as only ‘Jackie’ Fisher could have dreamed up and then given reality. Initially costing £2,524,148, with one major reconstruction at a further cost of £2,362,000, Warspite rendered yeoman service for over thirty years—a very good bargain for the taxpayer.
Ships unquestionably have definite personalities; and despite her bulk Warspite from the very first exhibited a skittishness strangely at odds with her mature and awe-inspiring appearance; one of her earliest vagaries being to run aground at 14 knots. This was shortly after joining the 5th Battle Squadron of Jelli- coe’s Grand Fleet.
Her mission at the Jutland battle was to support Beatty’s Battle Cruisers; and in the action against Hipper she both took and dealt out remarkably heavy punishment. By the time Jellicoe and the Grand Fleet arrived on the scene she had sustained thirteen heavy hits; which may account for the fact that in the face of concentrated enemy fire she proceeded to steer a complete circle, before limping gamely into port to seek much-needed repair.
Throughout the inter-war years War spite— still remarkably temperamental!—was mostly in the Mediterranean. It was from this station that she proceeded, early in 1940, to play a conspicuous and gallant part in the operations off Narvik. Once more under Cunningham’s command in “the Middle Sea,” Warspite took part in the fleet action off Calabria and in niuch of the heavy and incessant fighting consequent on the efforts to pass convoys into beleaguered Malta. As Cunningham’s flagship, Warspite was in the thick of things in the encounter with the Italian fleet off Cape Matapan; of which one participant recorded, In some ways the battle resembled a peacetime night exercise.” Such were the fruits of *ffe constant training in night-fighting by heavy ships, the need for which the lessons of Jutland had clearly underlined.
The impulsive, ill-advised British venture into Greece led to enforced evacuation to Crete; where Warspite was so severely damaged by bombs that only the skilled attention she received in the Bremerton Navy Yard at Seattle served to render her once more fit for active duty. By 1945 the veteran had endured a stern and gruelling war; for her later Activities included the Sicily, Salerno, and otentin peninsula landings, and vigorous support of the amphibious expedition for the capture of Walcheren. It was a sad day for cr, however, when the Admiralty decreed ut so venerable an old party could scarcely expect to join the armament preparing to ^jPport the American Fleet in the Pacific, ransferred to the Reserve Fleet, in July, 46, the fiat went forth that she was to be broken up. Game—and skittish—to the last, vhile under tow to the maritime knacker’s lard she cocked a snook at one and all by leaking her tow and blithely driving ashore °n the rocks of Mounts Bay. all^P13'11 has done ample justice to
th ^ arsk‘tes’ stories, which means that e reader is presented with a graphic history 0 the British Navy in miniature.
Winston Churchill and the Second Front 1940-1943
By Trumbull Higgins. New York: Oxford
University Press. 1957. 281 pages. $6.00.
REVIEWED BY
Dr. Herbert Feis
(Dr. Feis, a distinguished economist and historian
of international reputation, is a member of the Institute
for Advanced Study, Princeton.)
This inquiring book is an historical review of the strategic proposals and plans for the European theater of war that were discussed, discarded, or adopted by the American and British governments, up to the decision at Teheran in December, 1943, to make the Channel Crossing. The narrative comprehends the ideas and opinions of all three branches of the military organization; ground, sea, and air. This makes the account clearer and more complete.
The author construes the eventful course as a contest between the American wish to en gage upon the Channel assault and Winston Churchill’s opposition and devotion to a strategy of circuitous envelopment. By so doing, the narrative turns into a thesis, leaving the reader in doubt at the end whether the historical account justifies the opinions or serves rather to adorn them. Though not gathered together explicitly, Higgins’ connected opinions are clear: that the war in Europe would have been better conducted and more quickly ended if the Western Allies had followed the Marshall-Stimson proposals to invade France in 1942, or in any case in 1943; that Churchill’s fear and dislike of this strategy were affected not only by poor judgment, but by vain and personal theories of warfare, and by undue concern for British colonial and Continental interests; that the campaigns in North Africa and in Italy were a wasteful and ineffectual use of American and British combat resources; and that in consequence the Soviet armies did not receive from the West the full possible, or even reasonably manageable, measure of assistance.
Higgins advances these opinions in the bold spirit of the strategy of which he is the proponent. He flings them on the beaches of controversy without bringing to their support in these pages the required reserve forces of organized facts. More plainly, he does not accompany his argumentative statements with a sufficient examination of what combat resources the Western Allies could have devoted to the Cross-Channel invasion in 1942 or 1943, in comparison with the forces which the Axis might or could have used in opposition. Nor does he analyze adequately the alternative strategies which the Axis might have adopted had the Allies not gone into North Africa and Italy—such as shortening their defense lines in the East, closing the Straits of Gibraltar, and capturing the Suez Canal.
Such complex collections of facts about combat capacities and circumstances are needed before acceptance of conclusions which ascribe military decisions to influences from another realm, such as the earlier strategic inclinations or personality traits of participants in the decisions, and thoughts of domestic political advantage. They are a necessary restraint upon indulgence in the further flights of interpretation which make this book more animated but less convincing.
Selected Readings in Leadership
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E Wolfe, USN, and Captain F. J. Mulholland, USMC. Annapolis: U. S. Naval Institute, 1957. 128 pages. Paper-bound. $2.50 ($1.50 to Naval Institute members).
REVIEWED BY
Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.)
(Rear Admiral McCandless formerly served as Head of the Academic Section of the Naval Academy’s Executive Department, the agency charged with conducting the course in Naval Leadership for midshipmen; concurrently he served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Naval Institute and editor of the Proceedings.)
The compilers of Selected Readings in Leadership, officers of the Executive Department, U. S. Naval Academy, have culled the best of many papers on leadership. Some are articles that have appeared in the Proceedings, some are from official publications, and others were delivered as speeches. They have been assembled in one moderate-sized, paper-bound volume comparable to a copy of the Proceedings. While it is intended primarily to round out the course in Naval Leadership, it will have widespread interest throughout the Service.
Among the twenty-two selections are ones by Admiral Arleigh A. Burke, the late Admiral William V. Pratt, the eminent Dr. Douglas Southall Freeman, Commander A. Mason Harlow, Lieutenant Colonel L. E. Hudgins, Jr., and others. They range from the formulation of policy to combatting AWOLism. While most are of fairly recent origin, the two of ancient vintage, one by Major C. A. Bach, in 1918, and the one by Admiral Pratt in 1934, have a freshness to them that makes them valid even today. The whole field of leadership is covered from many angles, making the Selected Readings a valuable adjunct to Naval Leadership, 1949.
BOOK BRIEFS
The Price of Power: America Since
1945
By Herbert Agar. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1957. 200 pages, selected bibliography and index. $3.50.
In this, the fourth published volume of the Chicago History of American Civilization series, the author reviews the first decade of American experience in world responsibility- He closely observes and evaluates recent trends in this field and offers a hope for world peace through the inspired leadership of the United States. According to Mr. Agar, application by America of “the power of thought . . . originality and daring” might well lead mankind to the elusive path of international peace.
The World in Space. The Story of the International Geophysical Year
By Alexander Marshack. New York- Thomas Nelson & Sons, 1958. 176 pages- 88 illustrations. $4.95.
“A sound knowledge of the Antarctic, the seas, the climates and weather and the ionosphere is slowly being achieved.” This splendid volume presents carefully edited, compre' hensive, and lucid sections on each of the thirteen IGY programs. The scientific magnitude of these operations is enormous. For example, 99 observatories currently are studying the effect of the sun on the earth, ships of 26 nations are probing the seas, and research men from eleven countries have wintered in Antarctica. It is somewhat unfortunate that the expanding literature of the IGY did not sooner appear, in relation to commencement of the Year last July.
reader that “at any time the restrictions discussed could be removed or broadened by congressional action or administrative interpretation.” All retired naval personnel should be familiar with the contents of this reference guide. There is no charge for single copies. Requests should be addressed to: Judge Advocate General of the Navy (Publications), Room 4D823, Pentagon, Washington 25, D.C.
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Why The Civil War?
By Otto Eisenschiml. New York: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, Inc., 1958. 208 pages. Notes and bibliography. $3.75.
A lively and controversial re-examination bY Dr. Eisenschiml of some unanswered ques- hons and aspects of the Civil War, particularly of its irrepresibility, a thesis not accepted by the author. He concludes that Lincoln, ‘When still immature, harassed by innumerable office seekers, surrounded by men of doubtful loyalty and compelled to make fate- ul decisions on the spur of the moment . . . ad chosen what he believed would be a short and perhaps bloodless war as the best solution of the national difficulties. Given more time, e might have found a way to avert an armed conflict. It was his misfortune that, contrary his calculation, the war turned out to be °ng and devastating.”
^eference Guide to Employment ctivities of Retired Naval Personnel. Navexos P-1778(9-57)
Washington: Government Printing Office, 1957. 32 pages.
This pamphlet discusses such significant ubjects as restrictions upon federal employ- pay, and foreign employment, also criminal provisions relating to private em- P °yment. Prevailing legal decisions, opinions, and interpretations are given and the Judge dvocate General adds a reminder to the
Distant Early Warning. By Richard More- nus. Chicago: Rand McNally & Co., 1957. $3.95.
This book describes activities until lately necessarily classified under security regulations. The author provides a detailed account of the problems of transportation and construction attendant to the development of DEW stations in northern Canada. There is a fine assortment of informative illustrations. Some evidences of misuse of terms and misstatement of fact are apparent.
U. S. Airpower
By Samuel Taylor Moore. New York: Greenberg, Publisher, 1958. 196 pages. Illustrated. $5.95.
An extremely interesting and mature book, provocative and, according to the jacket, one that “will surely stir controversy.” Mr. Moore ranges from the early history of American ballooning to the present and immediate future of airpower. He observes of World War II, “With full appreciation of the aircraft-carriers’ major contributions, there remains credit enough to be shared by all,” and of Korea, “So long as air forces and armies must operate overseas, such need for sustainment by ships will remain unchanged.” This volume deserves a reading by all airpower enthusiasts primarily because of its breadth of viewpoint.
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By Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. Third edition, 1958. 304 pages.
Principles of Electronics and Electronic Systems........................................................ $7.50 ($6.00)
Edited by Professor John L. Daley, U. S. Naval Academy, and Commander F. S. Quinn, Jr., USN. Second edition, 1957. 492 pages. 556 figures.
The Rules of the Nautical Road................................................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. F. Farwell, USNR. Revised by Lieutenant Alfred Prunski, U. S. Coast Guard. 1957. 567 pages. Illustrated.
Elements of Applied Thermodynamics...................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Professor R. M. Johnston, Captain W. A. Brockett, USN, and Professor A. E. Bock. Third revised edition, 1958. 496 pages. Illustrated.
PROFESSIONAL LIBRARY
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual...................................... Complete new edition in preparation.
The Marine Officer’s Guide....................................................................................... $5.75 ($4.32)
By General G. C. Thomas, USMC (Ret.), Colonel R. D. Heinl, Jr., USMC, and Rear Admiral A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.). 1956. 512 pages. 29 charts. 119 photographs.
Watch Officer’s Guide............................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN, and Commander C. R. Chandler, USN. 7th edition, 1955. 296 pages. Illustrated.
International Law for Seagoing Officers.................................................................... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Commander Burdick H. Brittin, USN. 1956. 256 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Shiphandling.................................................................................................... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Commander R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN, aided by officers of the Navy, Coast Guard, Merchant Marine, and Pilot Service. 1955. 396 pages. 160 illustrations.
Practical Manual of the Compass............................................................................... $3.60 ($2.88)
By Captain Harris Laning, USN, and Lieut. Comdr. H. D. McGuire, USN. 1921. 172 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Leadership....................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
Prepared at the U. S. Naval Academy for instruction of midshipmen. 1st edition. 1949. 324 pages.
Naval Leadership with Some Hints to Junior Officers and Others . . . . $ .90 ($ .72)
A compilation for and by the Navy. 4th edition. 1939. 140 pages.
How to Survive on Land and Sea............................................................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
Naval Aviation Physical Training Manual. 2nd revised edition. 1956. 362 pages. Illustrated.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services .... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Charles W. Shilling, (MC), USN. 1955. 292 pages. Illustrated.
The Art of Knotting and Splicing............................................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Cyrus Day. Step by-step pictures facing explanatory text. 1955. 232 pages.
Naval Phraseology..................................................................................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
English-French-Spanish-Italian-German-Portuguese. 1953. 326 pages.
Russian Conversation and Grammar.......................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 1955. 216 pages.
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology................................................................. $4.00 ($3.20)
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd revised edition, 1954. 146
pages.
BIOGRAPHY AND HISTORY
Admiral de Grasse and American Independence......................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Professor Charles L. Lewis. U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 404 pages. Illustrated.
John Paul Jones: Fighter for Freedom and Glory........................................................ $6.00 ($4.50)
By Lincoln Lorenz. 1943. 868 pages. Illustrated.
D-'rid Glasgow Farragut
By Professor Charles L. Lewis. U. S. Naval Academy.
Vol. I, Admiral in the Making. 1911. 386 pages. Illustrated....................................... $3.75 ($2.82)
Vol. II, Our First Admiral. 1943. 530 pages. Illustrated.............................................. $4.50 ($3.38)
A Long Line of Ships................................................................................................. $5.00 ($3.75)
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. Mare Island Centennial Volume. 1954. 268 pages. Illustrated.
United States Destroyer Operations in IVorld War II.................................................. $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. Second printing. 1957. 581 pages. Illustrated.
United States Submarine Operations in World War II................................................. $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1949. 577 pages. Illustrated.
Special price—2 volume set: Destroyer and Submarine books (listed above) S15.00 ($11.25)
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors 1924-1950 ................................ $10.00 ($8.00)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte VV. B. Smith. 1952. 640 pages. Illustrated.
Round-Shot to Rockets.............................................................................................. $3.00 ($2.25)
By 1 aylor Peck. A history ol the Washington Navy Yard and U. S. Naval Gun Factory 1949. 267 pages. Illustrated.
A History of Naval Tactics from 1530 to 1930 ................................................ $6.50 ($4.88)
The Evolution of Tactical Maxims. By Rear Admiral S. S. Robison, USN (Ret.), and Mary L. Robison. 1942. 892 pages. Illustrated.
The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 ...................................................... $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript: 1915-1949). 1949. 228 pages. Illustrated.
Midway, The Battle that Doomed Japan, The Japanese Navy’s Story . . . $4.50 ($3.38)
By Mitsuo Fuchida and Masatake Okumiya, former Imperial Japanese Navy. Edited by Roger Pineau and Clarke Kawakami. 1955. 292 pages. Illustrated.
Lion Six .................................................................................................................... $2.50 ($1.88)
By Captain D. Harry Hammer, USNR. The story of the building of the great Naval Operating Base at Guam. 1947. 125 pages. Illustrated.
Sons of Gunboats....................................................................................................... $2.75 ($2.07)
By Commander F. L. Sawyer, USN (Ret.). Personal narrative of gunboat experiences in
the Philippines, 1899-1900. 1946. 166 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (See also 1957-1958 list)
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships................................ $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Thomas C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 1956. 370 pages. 167 figures.
Internal Combustion Engines..................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander P. W. Gill, USN, Commander J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Professor E. J. Ziurys. Third edition, revised, 1954. 566 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to the Basic Mechanisms........................................................................ $4.50 ($3.60)
By Professor Roy E. Hampton, U. S. Naval Academy. 1956. 249 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Auxiliary Machinery........................................................................................ $4.50 ($3.60)
By the Department of Marine Engineering. 1952. 286 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Boilers.............................................................................................................. $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1956. 180 pages. 167 figures.
Naval Turbines........................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.20)
By the Department of Marine Engineering. 1952. 148 pages. Illustrated.
Refresher Course in Fundamental Mathematics for Basic Technical
Training.............................................................................................................. Paper cover $ .30
Prepared by Training Division, Bureau of Naval Personnel. 1942. 176 pages.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables .... By the Department of Mathematics. 1945. 93 pages.
$1.65 ($1.32)
MISCELLANEOUS
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages................................................................. $6.50 ($4.88)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 290 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
(Deluxe autographed edition).................................................................................... f12.50 ($10.00)
The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models . . . . . . $3.00 ($2.25)
U. S. Naval Academy Museum. 1954. 117 pages. Illustrated.
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.
The Book of Navy Songs............................................................................................... $2.65 ($1.99)
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.
Proceedings Cover Pictures............................................................................................ $2.50 ($1.88)
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1952, 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957. Mounted on 13 x 13 mat. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage........................................... Out of stock pending revision.
By Lieutenant Commander Leland P. Lovette, USN. 1939. 424 pages. Illustrated.
PHYSICAL TRAINING
Modern renting.......................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
By Clovis Deladrier, U. S. Naval Academy. 1948. 312 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Aviation Physical Training Manuals—Revised editions, 1950. Illustrated.
Basketball.............................. $4.00 ($3.00) How to Survive on Land and Sea $4.00 ($3.00)
259 pages. 2nd revised edition, 1956. 362 pages.
Boxing.................................. $4.00 ($3.00) Intramural Programs . . . $4.00 ($3.00)
288 pages. 249 pages.
Conditioning Exercises . . $4.00 ($3.00) Soccer........................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
235 pages. 192 pages.
Football................................. $4.00 ($3.00) Swimming and Diving . . . $4.50 ($3.38)
246 pages. 423 pages.
Gymnastics and Tumbling . $4.50 ($3.38) Track and Field .... $4.00 ($3.00)
474 pages. 217 pages.
Hand to Hand Combat . . $4.00 ($3.00) Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 ($3.38)
228 pages. 2nd revised edition 1958. 218 pages.
REFERENCE works
(These books are either no longer current or are in very short supply.)
A Brief History of Courts-Martial....................................................... Paper cover $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 72 pages.
Naval Essays of Service Interest.......................................................... Paper cover $1.25 ($ .94)
Collection of 35 selected Proceedings articles for over 26-year period. 1942.
International Law for Naval Officers.............................................................................. $2.00 ($1.60)
By Comdr. C. C. Soule, USN, and Lieut. Comdr. C. McCauley, USN. 245 pages. Revised 1928 by Lieut. Comdr. C. J. Bright, USN.
Matthew Fontaine Maury............................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy. 1927. 264 pages. Illustrated.
The Dardanelles Expedition........................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
By Captain W. D. Puleston, USN. 1927. 172 pages. Illustrated.
Me Build A Navy........................................................................................................... $2.75 ($2.07)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 517 pages. Illustrated.
Yankee Mining Squadron.............................................................................................. $1.50 ($1.20)
By Captain R. R. Belknap, USN. 1920. 110 pages. Illustrated.