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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 dam­^aged 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, comp^re' 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.

Dew Line

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.”

^efe_rence 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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Selected Readings in Leadership................................................................................................ $2.50.. ($1.88)

Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, and Captain F. J. Mulholland, USMC. 1957. 128 pages. Paper bound.

Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement.............................................. $2.00 ($1.60)

Edited by Commander Walter C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 192 pages. Paper bound.

Introduction to Applied Aerodynamics..................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)

By Commander Gregg Mueller, USN. 1957. 178 pages. Paper bound.

REVISIONS, 1957-1958

Welcome Aboard...................................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.63)

By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. Revised seventh printing, 1958. 288 pages.

Geography and National Power................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)

Edited by Professor William W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. Revised and enlarged edition, 1958. 160 pages. Paper bound.

Annapolis Today....................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.00)

By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1957. 313 pages. 59 photographs.

The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy........................................................................ $1.95 ($1.56)

15th edition. 1957. 648 pages. Illustrated.

Division Officer’s Guide............................................................................................ $2.25 ($1.80)

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.