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T?or many generations the price of a book has been equated with the price of a good dinner, presumably somewhere between five and ten dollars today. But that generalization now has thousands of exceptions, for any of us can buy a really good book for the price of a hamburger at the corner drugstore. For in­stance, The Silent Service, Captain William C. Chambliss’ recounting of some of the great feats accomplished by U. S. Submarines in the Pacific in World War II, has just been published by Signet as an original (not a re­print), available for 35fS. And luncheon at Ye Olde Tea Roome costs more than Walter Millis’ first rate critique of warfare, Arms and Men (Mentor, 50^), or Michael Lewis’ The History of the British Navy (Penguin, 85fl), or Henry A. Kissinger’s Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Anchor, 95^), or probably as much as that classic belonging in every naval officer’s library, Alfred Thayer Mahan’s The Influence of Seapower Upon History (Sagamore, $1.60). '

Anyone owning all of the paperbacks cur­rently in print would have a library of over 6,000 volumes. Several hundred of those would be mysteries, a similar number Westerns, and possibly even a greater number would fall into that category aptly described by mid­shipmen at the Naval Academy as “skin books.” Skimming off anything considered scum or froth would leave a truly great li­brary, including The Bible and Sophocles, Shakespeare and Dostoevski, Plato and Wil­liam James, Heisenberg’s Quantum Theory and Besicovitch’s Almost Periodic Functions, and Doughty’s Travels in Arabia Deserta and Keynes & Slichter’s The Means to Prosperity. For re­laxation you could sail in the USF United States with Herman Melville (White Jacket) or go around the world with Charles Darwin

as a guide (The Cruise of the Beagle). If you want to build a brick wall, improve your spin­casting, save money on your income tax, or understand the female sex, there’s a paperback that claims to tell you how.

Since paperbacks come and go so quickly at the corner store, it is impossible to keep track of them. That difficulty is almost solved by Paperbound Books in Print, published semi­annually by R. R. Bowker Company, 62 West 45th Street, New York 36, N. Y., and selling for two dollars a copy or three dollars for the year. Its 202 pages with titles from 125 paper­back series unfortunately do not include the leading British importer, Penguin Books, or the outstanding publisher of science and mathematics in paperbacks, Dover Publica­tions, or a few other houses. Bowker states clearly in a preface that a “nominal fee” is charged for each listing and that Penguin and Dover are among those not included. Even so, Bowker’s list is the best answer to the question of what is available. Where to obtain a particular paperback raises another ques­tion. The profit is so small on a single copy that the publishers cannot afford to handle single-copy retail sales by mail. It is better to order through a local outlet or through a national retailer such as Book Mail Service, Box 363, Jamaica, New York, which gives no discount but does pay postage on orders for five dollars’ worth of books or more.

Currently there is no checklist of paper­backs on warfare, such as might be of particu­lar interest to Naval Institute members. A careful comparing of available lists indicates that such a library now numbers over 150 volumes of generally good quality and great variety. Even the poorest book in the list be­low is worth the price of admission, and some titles should be on every officer’s must-read list. For instance, there is the late Theodor Plievier’s great trilogy of World War II on the Russian front, Moscow, Stalingrad, and Berlin (this last just published in paperback)— fiction to be sure, but like most of the fiction listed here, it is based on personal experience and the accounts of participants. No Amer­ican can have an understanding of World War II in Europe without realization of the tremendous debacle on the Eastern front, and Plievier’s three volumes will leave with most readers an indelible impression of no little value in assessing strength and weakness factors in today’s cold war.

Most paperbacks retailing at fifty cents or less must be inexpensively manufactured and enjoy large sales if their publishers are to stay in business. Consequently, some are worth shelf-space in a library and some are super­ficial, vulgar, sensational, and distinctly of ephemeral interest. Nonetheless, most of the titles listed here will make good shipboard companions and can be passed along or dis­carded without a sense of great loss. The paperbacks selling for about a dollar and up are frequently fine examples of the book­making art. In some instances, part of an edition is bound in boards, part in paper, and the difference in retail price is at least one dollar. For anyone who wishes to save his favorite or better paperbacks, a binding kit is now available. Whether paperbacks stimulate or reduce the sales of standard books has been hotly argued in the book trade without a con­vincing conclusion.

The following checklist is intended to be inclusive for paperbacks in print concerning military and naval events since 1939. The anthologies mentioned include a few World War I items. Mahan has been included, in­deed, but the temptation to list personal favorites—Thucydides, Xenophon, Caesar, and many American Civil War titles—has been resisted, with regret.

Checklist

Allen, Robert S. Drive to Victory (Berkeley, 50(1)—an account of the break-out and drive across France of General Patton’s Third Army.

Andersen, U. S. The Smouldering Sea (Pocket Books, 35(1)—merchant marine story set in the Southwest Pacific with Noumea and Brisbane as liberty ports.

Anderson, Frank W. Great Flying Stories (Dell, 35(1)—a good selection covering epoch-making events in aviation from World War I on.

Anderson, Thomas. Tour Own Beloved Sons (Bantam, 35(1)—hard-hitting Army novel with a Korean setting.

Anonymous. A Woman oj Berlin (Ballantine, 35(1)— grim presentation of what happened to the Berliners engulfed by the Russian Army, presumably factual.

Arnold, Elliott. Rescue (Bantam, 35(1)—factual ac­counts of some stirring examples of air rescue by various services.

Austin, Alex, ed. War! (Signet, 35(1)—an anthology of war stories, mostly modern and well selected for literary quality as well as subject matter.

Babington-Smith, Constance. Air Spy (Ballantine, 50(1) —excellent account of British intelligence based on aerial photo interpretation, by one of the practi­tioners of the art.

Bamm, Peter. The Invisible Flag (Signet, 35(1)—A German Army surgeon thoughtfully and quietly tells of his experiences in southern Russia and East Prussia. The “invisible flag” is the emblem of humanity.

Beach, Edward L. Run Silent, Run Deep (Permabooks, 35 d)

----- . Submarine! (Signet, 35(1)—these two books

will have an enduring place in the naval literature of World War II; U. S. submarine exploits in the Pacific told by a leading submariner.

Bekker, C. D. Defeat at Sea (Ballantine, 35(1)—well- handled account of the German Navy in World War II.

Blair, Clay, Jr. Beyond Courage (Ballantine, 35(1)— U. S. airmen shot down in Korea and how they escaped.

Blond, Georges. The Death of Hitler’s Germany (Pyra­mid, 35(1)—Non-fiction, covering the events from July 1944 to the end.

Boulle, Pierre. The Bridge Over the River Kwai (Bantam, 35(1)—The story of some British prisoners in the Siam-Burma area that was transformed into the prize-winning movie.

Brent, Rafer ed. Great War Stories (Bartholomew, $1) —another good collection of World War I and II material.

Brickhill, Paul. The Dam Busters (Ballantine, 35(1)— daring strategic bombing mission of the RAF over Germany.

Brinkley, William. Don’t Go Near the Water (Signet, 50(1)—certain fanciful exploits of naval personnel in the Pacific and almost as funny as the movie.

Brome, Vincent. The Spy (Pyramid, 35(1)—authentic account of one segment of the British directed underground in France.

Brown, Harry. A Walk in the Sun (Signet, 35(1)—one

of the good novels of Allied personnel in the Italian campaign.

Bryan, J., III. Aircraft Carrier (Ballantine, 35(1)— USS Torktown operations in the Pacific.

Bullock, Alan. Hitler (Bantam, 50 p)—probably the best short biography of the Nazi Fuehrer available.

Burt, Kendal and Leaso, James. The One that Got Away (Ballantine, 50(1)—concerning a Luftwaffe pilot who repeatedly tried and eventually suc­ceeded in making good his escape after being transferred to a Canadian POW camp.

Busch, Fritz-Otto. Holocaust at Sea (Berkley, 35(1)—the life and death of the German battleship Scharnhorst.

Busch, Harald. U-Boats at War (Ballantine, 35(1)—one of the several good books on a popular subject for naval historians.

Carter, Ross S. Those Devils in Baggy Pants (Signet, 35 £)—a salute to the 82nd Airborne Division of U. S. paratroops in Europe.

Castle, John. The Password Is Courage (Ballantine, 35(1) —activities behind the German lines of a Britisher who escaped from prison camp.

Chambliss, William C. The Silent Service (Signet, 35(1) —these accounts make clear why the U. S. sub­mariners can take such pride in their service.

Clostermann, Pierre. The Big Show (Ballantine, 50(1)—• autobiography by a Frenchman of his spectacular career while a fighter pilot in the RAF.

Congdon, Don ed. Combat European Theater (Dell, 50 d)

----- . Combat Pacific Theater (Dell, 50(1)—these two

books are good anthologies of brief, factual accounts of the crucial actions of World War II.

Cowles, V. Who Dares, Wins (Ballantine, 50(1)— Stirling’s raiders were British commandos in North Africa who could win even Rommel’s respect.

Crankshaw, Edward. Gestapo (Pyramid, 35(1)—best read by anyone who thinks the United States should have made peace with Hitler.

Davis, Franklin M., Jr. Spearhead (Permabooks, 25(1)—- a novel concerning a U. S. tank-infantry team smashing its way to the Rhine.

Devereux, James P. S. The Story of Wake Island (Ace, 35(1)—Colonel Devereux’s own famous story. He survived Japanese prison camp, became a general, and is now a member of Congress.

Dibner, Martin. The Deep Six (Permabooks, 35(1)—a fictional account of U. S. naval action in the North Pacific aboard a cruiser.

Dodson, Kenneth. Away All Boats (Bantam, 50(1)—the U. S. Navy’s attack transport service presented in a novel of World War II in the Pacific.

Dornberger, Walter. V-2 (Ballantine, 50(1)—full ac­count on a popular level of German rocket de­velopment by the officer who was in charge of it.

Eyster, Warren. Far from Customary Skies (Bantam, 35(1)—a novel of destroyers and destroyermen in the Pacific.

Feldt, Eric D. The Coast Watchers (Ballantine, 50(1)— authentic account of the brave Australians who comprised an Allied intelligence net during the blackest days in the South Pacific.

Fitz Gibbon, Constantine. Officers’ Plot to Kill Hitler (Avon, 35$—the story of a strange piece of bungling.

Foley, Charles. Commando Extraordinary (Ballantine, 35 $—about the Nazi dare-devil who, among his many exploits, freed Mussolini when the latter was imprisoned after his fall from power.

Forester, C. S. The Good Shepherd (Bantam, 35$—a novel of an American destroyer vs. the U-boats told with professional facility.

----- . The Ship (Bantam, 35 $—a novel of the Royal

Navy in the Mediterranean in World War II.

Forrest, Williams. Stigma for Valor (Fawcett, 35$— trials and tribulations of an American prisoner in Korea (fiction).

Frank, Wolfgang and Rogge, Bernhard. The German Raider Atlantis (Ballantine, 35 (!)—autobiographical account by her captain of one of the most successful Nazi commerce raiders.

Frank, Wolfgang. The Sea Wolves (Ballantine, 50$— the U-boat wolf-packs in the Battle of the Atlantic.

Freeman, Walter. The Last Blitzkrieg (Signet, 25$—an episode of the battle of the Bulge concerning Ger­mans disguised in American uniforms for purposes of sabotage.

Freiden, Seymour and Richardson, William. The Fatal Decisions (Berkley, 50$—the authors record the comments of German generals on six major battles of World War II.

Fuchida, Mitsuo and Okumiya, Masatake. Midway (Ballantine, 50$—a paperback reprint of the Naval Institute’s book giving the Japanese story of the naval battle that proved to the turning point of the war in the Pacific.

Galland, Adolf. The First and the Last (Ballantine, 50$ —valuable telling of the Luftwaffe fighter command story by the man who was at the head of it.

Geer, Andrew. The Sea Chase (Pocket Books, 25$ a German merchant ship in the Pacific at the outbreak of war tries to evade the British. Effective fiction by an American Marine.

Giovannitti, Len. The Prisoners of Combine D (Bantam, 50$—a novel concerning a group of captured American airmen in a Nazi prison camp.

Goethals, Thomas. Panzer Ghost Division (Avon, 35$ —a novel covering certain aspects of the Battle of the Bulge.

Guderian, Heinz. Panzer Leader (Ballantine, 50$— a major book, for this is General Guderian’s own story of how he developed the Panzer armored divisions and employed them on both the western and eastern fronts.

Gunther, John. D-Day (Avon, 35$—some of the activities of journalist Gunther in Europe in the latter part of the war.

Hachiya, Michihiko. Hiroshima Diary (Avon, 35$—a Japanese doctor’s eye-witness account of what happened in Hiroshima after the atomic bomb was dropped.

Haines, William Wister. Command Decision (Pocket Books, 25$—a novel concerning the American bomber command stationed in England.

Hardy, Rene. Bitter Victory (Signet, 35 $—fictionalized

account of British commandos in North Africa.

Hashimoto, Mochitsura. Sunk! (Avon, 35$—the rather inglorious story of the Japanese submarine force in World War II.

Hechler, Ken. The Bridge at Remagen (Ballantine, 50$ —full and detailed account of the surprise capture of the Rhine bridge and the events that immediately ensued.

Heggen, Thomas. Mr. Roberts (Pocket Books, 25$—a footnote on the war in the Pacific turned into a minor masterpiece.

Heinrich, Willi. Crack of Doom (Bantam, 50$—a realistic novel covering the final collapse of the German army in southeastern Europe.

----- . The Cross of Iron (Bantam, 50$—a quite

powerful novel of Germans on the Russian front, with no holds barred.

Hemingway, Ernest ed. Men at War (Berkley, 75$— an excellent anthology of fiction and non-fiction, mostly modern.

Hersey, John. Hiroshima (Bantam, 35$—so dramatic a rendering that the New Yorker magazine devoted the entire contents of one issue to the original.

----- . Into the Valley (Dell, 35$—a novel concerning

a Marine action on Guadalcanal.

Hill, Weldon. Onionhead (Popular Library, 50$— each branch of the Armed Forces has its novel; this one concerns the Coast Guard enlisted man, with emphasis on entertainment.

Hillary, Richard. Falling Through Space (Dell, 35$— the autobiographical account of an RAF pilot in the Battle of Britain.

Hollands, D. J. Able Company (Signet, 50$—a novel which draws its characters from the British forces in the Korean conflict.

Howarth, David. Sledge Patrol (Ballantine, 35$—con­cerning the handful of men who were left to protect Greenland’s weather stations from the Germans.

Hunt, George P. Coral Comes High (Signet, 25$—the Peleliu invasion as told in an autobiographical Marine novel.

Hunter, Edward. Brainwashing (Pyramid, 35$—con­cerning a fascinating and distressing aspect of the Korean experience.

Hyman, Mac. No Time for Sergeants (Signet, 50$—• World War II Army humor, a form of escape literature.

James, M. E. Clifton. The Counterfeit General Montgom­ery (Avon, 25$—a rather interesting British ruse undertaken for security reasons.

Jamieson, Leland. Attack! (Ace, 25$—naval fiction, this time concerned with American carrier aircraft.

Johnen, Wilhelm. Battling the Bombers (Ace, 35$—a German fighter pilot’s story.

Johnson, J. E. Wing Leader (Ballantine, 50$—prob­ably the best RAF book available in paperback; autobiography of a fighter Group Captain who served throughout the war.

Johnson, Robert S. Thunderbolt! (Ballantine, 50$— exploits of an American fighter group that shot down a thousand Nazi planes, 1943-45.

Johnston, Stanley. Queen of the Flat Tops (Ace, 35$— the story of the USS Lexington and the Battle of the Coral Sea in which she was lost.

Kahn, Lawrence H. The Tank Destroyers (Pocket Books, 25 fS)—U. S. tank destroyers in action against German tiger tanks (fiction).

Kissinger, Henry A. Nuclear Weapons and Foreign Policy (Anchor, 95tf)—an influential analysis of America’s defense posture and needs.

Klaas, Joe. Maybe I’m Dead (Dell, 50jf)—a novel concerning American prisoners of war in Germany.

Knoke, Heinz. I Flew for the Fuehrer (Berkley, 35 ji)— personal experiences of a German fighter pilot.

Krancke, Theodor and Brennecke, H. J. Pocket Battleship (Berkley, 50 0)—the account concentrates on the Admiral Scheer.

Kubeck, James. The Calendar Epic (Permabooks, 35f!) —good fiction on the subject of the U. S. Merchant Marine in World War II.

Kuwahara, Yasuo and Alfred, Gordon. Kamikaze (Ballantine, 35 f)—personal narrative of a kamikaze pilot who escaped death through a freak of cir­cumstances.

Landon, Joseph. Bomber Crew (Avon, 35 (S)—a novel concerned with air combat and American bombers over Europe.

Landsborough, Gordon. Desert Fury (Ace, 35 f)—and

----- . Tobruk Commando (Avon, 35 fi)—about certain

aspects of the always intriguing warfare between the British in North Africa and Rommel’s forces.

Lasly, Walt. Turn the Tigers Loose (Ballantine, 35 f)— an Air Force story about the night intruder flights in Korea.

Leckie, Robert. Helmet for My Pillow (Bantam, 35 i)— autobiography of a U. S. Marine in the Pacific in World War II.

Lederer, William. Ensign O’Toole and Me (Pocket Books, 25 fS)—a collection of expanded anecdotes that partially foreshadow the author’s best-selling The Ugly American.

Lengyel, Olga. Hitler’s Ovens (Avon, 35 f)—helps to answer the question sometimes asked by the present day college student. “Well, what was so bad about Hitler?”

Leveridge, Ralph. The Last Combat (Pyramid, 35 f.)— an Army novel with a Japanese held island in the Pacific as setting.

Lewis, Michael. The History of the British Navy (Pen­guin, 85 f)—very good on the Age of Sail material, but of only slight value on more modern British naval history.

Liddell Hart, B. H. The German Generals Talk (Berkley, 50 f!)—first rate presentation and analysis by a leading military historian.

Linna, Vaino. The Unknown Soldier (Ace, 50fi)—a good novel by a Finnish author concerned with his country’s second war against the Soviet Union.

Loomis, Edward. End of a War (Ballantine, 35 ji)— fictional account of some U. S. infantrymen in Germany in World War II.

Lord, Walter. Day of Infamy (Bantam, 50f!)—mass interview style of presentation of 7 December 1941 on Oahu.

Macintyre, Donald. U-Boat Killer (Avon, 351)—ex­citing factual writing by one of England’s leading

ASW captains; see his “Three Aces—Trumped” in the September, 1956 Proceedings.

MacLean, Alistair. The Guns of Navarone (Permabooks, 35 f)—a thriller of wartime adventure in the Greek islands.

—■—■—-. H.M.S. Ulysses (Permabooks, 35 (?)—fiction­alized account of a cruiser on the Murmansk run written by an expert.

Mahan, Alfred Thayer. The Influence of Seapower Upon History (Sagamore, $1.60)—this classic is, of course, an analysis of British seapower in the Age of Sail but is of unquestionable value as background reading for the understanding of any period of naval war­fare.

McHugh, Vincent. Edge of the World (Ballantine, 35 f) —a novel centered on the story of a wartime cargo ship.

Mailer, Norman. The Naked and the Dead (Signet, 75 fi)—possibly the best novel available in paper­back on land fighting in the Pacific in World War II.

Majdalany, Fred. The Battle of Cassino (Ballantine, 50 0)—very thorough presentation and analysis of the major roadblock to Allied success in the Italian campaign.

----- . Patrol (Ballantine, 35 ji)—another of the

British in North Africa vs. Rommel books.

Marshall, S. L. A. Pork Chop Hill (Permabooks, 35f!) —it is hoped that the success of the movie version of this incident of the fighting in Korea will en­courage the publishing in paperback of the author’s more important Korean war study, The River and the Gauntlet.

Matthews, Allen R. The Assault (Pocket Books, 25 fi)— a fictionalized account of the Marines at I wo Jima.

Mcrriam, Robert E. The Battle of the Bulge (Ballantine, 35 fi)—comprehensive study giving the entire story and based on considerable research.

Michener, James A. Tales of the South Pacific (Pocket Books, 35 (S)—one of the “dividends” of the war in the Pacific.

----- . The Bridge at Andau (Bantam, 35 f)—eye­witness reporting of some of the happenings of the Hungarian revolt against the Russians.

Millis, Walter. Arms and Men (Mentor, 50(f)—a good survey by one of America’s leading military analysts.

Morgan, William J. The OSS and I (Pocket Books, 25 jS) —throws some light on American intelligence organization and methods.

Morris, Donald R. Warm Bodies (Permabooks, 35 (S)—- Navy stories by a junior officer and Proceedings’ contributor.

Mulvihill, William. Fire Mission (Ballantine, 35 c)—an American artillery battery fighting the Germans supplies the material for this novel.

Myrer, Anton. The Big War (Bantam, 50^)—rather effective novel of Marines in the Pacific.

Onn, Chin Kee. Silent Army (Ballantine, 35 i)—under­ground warfare against the Japanese occupation forces in Malaya.

Okumiya, Masatake and Horikoshi, Jiro. Zero (Ballan­tine, 50fi)—Japan’s famous fighter plane and Japanese aviation in World War II.

Ott, Wolfgang. Sharks and Little Fish (Dell, 50 ji)—■ brutal and powerful novel following its hero through minesweeper and U-boat assignments in the Ger­man Navy in World War II.

Pinto, Oreste. Spy Catcher (Berkley, 35 (!)—some stories of British counter-intelligence (non-fiction).

Plievier, Theodor. Berlin (Ace, 50^)—the final volume of a trilogy; long, scattered, and very powerful picture of the collapse of Hitler’s capital.

----- . Moscow (Ace, 35 (!)—the opening volume of

the trilogy, giving insight into the workings of the German juggernaut from the opening attack against Russia to its grinding halt within sight of Moscow.

----- Stalingrad (Berkley, 50 (!)—the central volume

of the trilogy and certainly one of the great novels of World War II, concentrating on the death agonies of the encircled German army of General Paulus.

Pope, Dudley. Graf Spec (Berkley, 500)—exploits and death of the German pocket battleship.

----- . 73 North (Berkley, 50 0)—the final defeat of

Hitler’s surface navy.

Powell, Michael. Death in the South Atlantic (Ace, 35 0) —another telling of the Graf Spec story.

Rayner, D. A. The Enemy Below (Pocket Books, 250)—• fictionalized account of an American destroyer versus the U-boats.

Reid, P. R. Escape from Colditz (Berkley, 35)1)—perhaps the great POW escape story of World War II; British outwit the Nazis.

Reynolds, Quentin. Raid at Dieppe (Avon, 35j!)—the story of one of the most questionable Allied amphibi­ous raids of the war.

----- . 70,000 to 1 (Pyramid, 350)—fictionalized ac­count of a downed aviator on a Japanese held island; the title expresses the odds against him.

Richter, Hans Werner. Beyond Defeat (Fawcett, 350)— the tribulations of an anti-Nazi German captured by the Americans at Cassino (fiction).

Robertson, Terrence. Night Raiders of the Atlantic (Ace, 350)—the wartime biography of U-boat ace Otto Kretschmer, who was captured by Captain Mac­intyre (see above) and is now head of West Ger­many’s submarine command.

Roscoe, Theodore. Pigboats (Bantam, 50 0) a con­densation of the Naval Institute’s book, U. S. Submarine Operations in World War II, the most com­plete work on its subject.

Rudel, Hans Ulrich. Stuka Pilot (Ballantine, 50^)— mostly German aerial warfare against Russia, in which the author participated.

Russ, Martin. The Last Parallel (Signet, 50 0) the Marines in Korea are the subject of this novel.

Russell of Liverpool, Lord. The Scourge of the Swastika (Ballantine, 50)!)—a survey of the ugly story of the Nazi war crimes.

Sakai, Saburo. Samurai! (Ballantine, 50)1)—a Japanese fighter pilot ace tells his story.

Salter, James. The Hunters (Bantam, 35(1)—American jet fighters in engagements in the Yalu area.

Schaeffer, Heinz. U-Boat 977 (Ballantine, 35(1)—her captain tells the story of escaping with his sub­marine to South America at the end of the war.

Schellenberg, Walter. Hitler's Secret Service (Pyramid, 35)1)—the author headed that service; this is a popular account, of course.

Scott, Robert L. God is My Co-Pilot (Ballantine, 35)1)— an American aviator tells of his experiences in the China theater while serving under General Chen- nault.

Slater, Humphrey. Soldiers Three (Signet, 35)1)—fic­tionalized account of some Americans behind the German lines.

Smith, Holland M. Coral and Brass (Ace, 35)1)—auto­biography of the wartime expeirences of an out­standing and outspoken U. S. Marine general.

Stewart, Sidney. Give Us This Day (Popular Library, 35)1)—the moving story of the Bataan death march (fiction).

Stiles, Bert. Serenade to the Big Bird (Ballantine, 35)1)— an account of the U. S. 8th Air Force in Europe.

Strutton, Bill and Pearson, Michael. The Beachhead Spies (Ace, 35)1)—the exciting adventures of the British frogmen (non-fiction).

Thompson, R. W. Battle for the Rhine (Ballantine, 50)1) —comprehensive treatment with attention to the controversial aspects.

----- . The 85 Days (Ballantine, 50)1)—the Antwerp

campaign in World War II, throws interesting light on some of General Montgomery’s recently publicized comments on the conduct of the war.

Trevor, Elleston. The Killing Ground (Bantam, 35^)— the Normandy campaign gives the setting for this novel.

Trevor-Roper, H. R. The Last Days of Hitler (Berkley, 50)1)—adequate account of what was once con­sidered something of a mystery.

Trumbull, Robert. The Raft (Pyramid, 25)1)—mer­chant marine; what happens after the ship has been torpedoed.

Tute, Warren. The Cruiser (Ballantine, 50)1)—a readable novel of which a British cruiser is quite properly the heroine.

Uris, Leon. Battle Cry (Bantam, 50)1)—considered by many to be the best novel about the U. S. Marines in World War II.

Wakeman, Frederic. Shore Leave (Signet, 25)1)— liquor, women, and the Top of the Mark—too lightly presented to be offensive.

Williams, Wirt. The Enemy (Signet, 35)1)—American ASW operations in fictional form.

Woodward, C. Vann. The Battle for Leyte Gulf (Bal­lantine, 35)1)—the greatest naval battle of the war told from the Japanese point of view; a few errors and omissions but a very good book.

Woodward, David. The Tirpitz and the Battle of the North Atlantic (Berkley, 35)1)—a worthwhile con­tribution to the naval history of the war.

----- . The Secret Raiders (Avon, 35)1)—this survey

covers each of the German converted merchantman raiders in the war.

Wouk, Herman. The Caine Mutiny (Doubleday, 95(!)— the World War II setting is only incidental, for the problems with which the novel is concerned are almost as old as human society itself.

Wynne, Barry. Count 5 and Die (Ballantine, 35 p)—the rather unsavory American intelligence effort to mislead the Germans concerning the sites selected for trans-Channel invasion.

Young, Desmond. Rommel, The Desert Fox (Berkley, 50 ft)—a good biography that tends to glorify its subject.

Zieser, Benno. The Road to Stalingrad (Ballantine, 35 ft) —a German survivor’s gripping account of the events soon recognized as the turning point on the Russian front in World War II.

★

The Ships and Aircraft of the U. S. Fleet. Seventh Edition

By James C. Fahey. Falls Church: Ships

and Aircraft, 1958. 64 pages. Illustrated. $2.50.

REVIEWED BY

Captain Russell S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN

{Captain Crenshaw is serving in the G-3 Division,

U. S. Army Headquarters Europe, as an exchange officer.)

Fahey’s Seventh Edition is a mirror of our times. It is an inventory of our Navy in simple handbook form, but in the way the material is presented it speaks of the complexity and conflict inherent in the vast responsibility of theU. S. Navy.

The cover, dominated by the bulky form of a huge attack carrier and five flashy mem­bers of her brood, is symbolic of the place these ships and aircraft take in present Navy planning. Heaped into the inner pages are all of our ships and aircraft, both active and reserve; from a picket boat to the nuclear car­rier, they are all there. Guided missiles, battle­ships, blimps, helicopters, target drones, tug­boats, nuclear submarines, and supersonic jets all get equal space. On a single page a billion dollars worth of ships may compete for recognition. With as many as twenty photo­graphs per page and masses of tabulated characteristics, the little booklet bulges with information. By resorting to minute type, abbreviated expression, and coded symbols, Fahey has expanded the inside of this edition without enlarging the outside. It takes a bit of preparation to understand the symbols and it is frequently difficult to associate a particu­lar caption with the intended photograph, but the information is there. Fahey’s Seventh

is so complete that it is an essential piece of technical equipment for the naval planner or student.

As far a cry from the majestic pages of the annual edition of Jane’s Fighting Ships of the 1930s as are our atomic striking fleets from the stately lines of battleships, this little catalogue of “where we are now” merits care­ful study by anyone who wishes to really know our Navy. He will be astonished at the magnitude and variety of our naval force. Past, present, and future; it is all there. To be on the Navy List or to be in an authorized program are the only limiting criteria for en­trance to these crowded pages.

And there’s a lot of pleasant reminiscing for the older hands as they thumb the pages. Want to know what happened to Niblack, Alabama, Mingo, or Mount Olympus? They’re all listed. The status, dimensions, armament, power, complement, and much more is given for all major ships.

American Practical Navigator

Edited by Commander Alton B. Moody, USNR. Washington: U. S. Navy Hydro­graphic Office, 1958. Photographs, dia­grams, charts, tables. 1,524 pages. $6.25.

REVIEWED BY

Commander David M. Dibbrell, USN

{Commander Dibrell is Head of the Navigation Sec­tion, Department of Seamanship and Navigation, USNA.

The “Sailor’s Bible” has returned to the fleet after having been completely rewritten for the first time since 1882. The familiar, brown-covered 1938 edition (reprinted in 1943) fell gradually from favor as it failed more and more to answer the modern navi­gator’s questions. It is predicted that this splendid new edition of H. O. Publication No. 9 will very soon resume its accustomed place as a book to be kept close at hand in mariners’ chart rooms and libraries the world over.

The new Bowditch is divided into a text of eight parts (Fundamentals, Piloting and Dead Reckoning, Electronic Navigation, Celestial Navigation, the Practice of Naviga­tion, Oceanography, Weather, and Produc­tion of Charts), twenty-nine appendices, thirty-four tables, and an index. Part Three, “Electronic Navigation,” includes a superior distillation of new developments and effec­tively summarizes all pertinent and unclassi­fied material. In consonance with the an­nounced intention to provide a reference book for navigators, several appendices ap­pear for the first time; a glossary, buoyage systems, chart symbols, a fascinating miscel­laneous data collection, and others.

The tables have been extensively revised. Some of the less commonly used ones have been deleted and much tabular material which formerly appeared in the text is now appropriately grouped with the other tables. Meteorological tables have been significantly augmented and improved, in the presentation of the traverse table. The text, appendices, and tables are excellently indexed in a com­mon index which occupies 68 pages.

Careful selection of paper and binding, extensive use of color, inclusion of new photo­graphs and plates, and expert editing and proof-reading, all combine to make the 1958 Bowditch an outstanding publication. It is readable, complete, and authoritative.

The Silent Victory*

By Duncan Grinnell-Milne. London: The

Bodley Head, 1958. Illustrated. 206 pages.

21 shillings.

REVIEWED BY

S.W. Jackman

{Dr. Jackman is an Assistant Professor of History at

Bales College and student of military history.)

This is an interesting book in that it sup­ports very clearly two theories. The first is that in spite of the advent of air power the basic concepts of Admiral Mahan still are true. Secondly, it underscores for World War II what historians have known was true for World War I; namely that the Germans de­spite developing a fine fleet in the technical sense simply did not acquire the skill and knowledge required to use it adequately. A corollary to the second theory is that the General Staff, and also in this case Hitler, simply refused to face with honesty unpleasant facts supplied to them by men trained in naval warfare.

Perhaps nothing was more amazing to the world than the extraordinary victories of Hitler. By July 1940, almost all of Europe was in his hands either directly or as allies, and only England stood against him. It seemed that the great question was not “if Hitler invades” but rather “when Hitler in­vades.” Yet this expected event simply did not transpire. Grinnell-Milne’s explanation for the change of plan is a simple one. He takes the point of view that Hitler did not attempt a Channel crossing because Raeder, who was aware of the British command of the sea, managed to persuade him to change his mind.

Directive 16, the order issued by Hitler in July 1940, definitely set forth the plan for invasion. This plan relegated the navy to a second place and ordered them to act as “engineers.” Instead, Hitler should have given the navy first place in the planning of the over-all operation. Consequently the di­rective set forth a project that was so fantastic that it could not but bring dismay to those who understood the sea and naval warfare. The army minds at headquarters and Hitler himself could not comprehend the fact that the Channel was not merely a rather wide river. In spite of the fantasy which enveloped army minds, Raeder, good officer that he was, attempted to comply with the requests made to him.

Raeder organized a great potential Chan­nel-crossing fleet, but to do it he had to disrupt the remaining German merchant marine. He managed to persuade the army to limit the area of initial attack and further he attempted to have the Luftwaffe’s power directed against “British bases in order to destroy ships under construction or repair,” rather than to con­centrate all power on the massive attacks on London.

Here it seems is the crux of the problem.

The Luftwaffe took the view that with the destruction of London would come the in­evitable capitulation of Britain. Perhaps the Luftwaffe felt that Operation Sea Lion was only academic and would never meet any opposi­tion because by then the force needed would be a token one only. Further, by then the navy need not fear British naval opposition since the latter would have already surrendered.

Actually the real question was whether air control could effectively limit naval action. Air control by land-based aircraft did not prevent the British navy from operating in the Mediterranean, even when almost all of the surrounding land mass was in Axis hands. Experiences of the U. S. Navy in the Pacific support the contention that air control alone does not mean victory. Raeder understood this and remembered Tirpitz’s views, “Against England the main front is the sea front.”

After much difficulty it is evident that Raeder managed to present the facts in such a way that even the most obtuse could not fail to grasp them. While the initial force might be successfully landed, the supply lines could not be guaranteed. The Germans did not have command of the sea.

The classic view of the period of the summer and early autumn of 1940 is that the RAF alone caused Hitler to abandon his invasion plans. The RAF was important, but it alone could not have been the sole deterrent. It was an aid and no more. Perhaps the thing which must be emphasized here is that in order to gain victory, mere control of land, sea, or air is not sufficient. Neither is mere co­operation. There must be sympathy and understanding between all the defense forces; England was fortunate in that her forces had this last qualification; the Germans did not.

While some of Grinnell-Milne’s generaliza­tions came from interpretation rather than fact, and it is to be regretted factual docu­mentary evidence was not made available to him; nevertheless, his conclusions are sound. He presents his case for the navy adequately and succinctly, and his book is excellent read­ing. He has chosen his illustrations well. Any person remotely interested in the history of World War II, any person interested in the whole thesis of the role of sea power in his­tory, should find in this book both enjoyment and instruction.

The Art of Navigation in England in Elizabethan and Early Stuart Times

By D. W. Waters. New Haven: Yale Uni­versity Press, 1958. 696 pages. Illustrations and appendices. $12.50.

REVIEWED BY

Captain H. H. Shufeldt, USNR

(iCaptain Shufeldt, who has held several commands afloat, currently is engaged in navigation research and is the author of articles on celestial navigation.)

Under the early Tudors, English maritime commerce was chiefly concerned with the ex­port of wool to the Low Countries, French ports on the Channel and Bay of Biscay, and to northern Spain and Portugal. The ships returned with wines, fruit, and iron. There was also trade for fish with northwest Europe, and voyages were made as far afield as Ice­land. However, it was primarily a coasting trade, carried on in small single-masted vessels, generally under 100 tons displace­ment. For this voyaging, only a knowledge of piloting was required of shipmasters.

During the later years of the reign of Henry VIII, the demand in Europe for English wool began to decline, and, during the early part of Elizabeth I’s rule, it became evident that new markets, further afield, must be found if the English economy was to survive. For this, larger ships were required, capable of long ocean voyages, as well as skilled navigators, competent to sail them to their desired destinations.

Lieutenant Commander D. W. Waters, rn (Ret.), an Admiralty historian, has written a scholarly and fascinating account of how the latter need was met. Progress was rapid; the old instruments of Spanish and Portu­guese design were improved, and new ones were invented. The accuracy of the ephem- erides was increased, and navigational texts, written by Englishmen, began to replace Spanish translations. For navigation in high latitudes, the circumpolar chart replaced the old “plane chart.” Progress indeed was rapid; by the time of the Spanish Armada, the Venetian ambassador to France described the English as having “the reputation of be­ing, above all Western nations, expert and active in all naval operations, and great sea dogs.”

During the sixteenth century, great ad­vances also were made in mathematics, due in large part to the demand for continuing improvement in navigation. Edward Wright calculated his table of meridional parts, and thus was able to make available the mercator projection chart. Before the close of the cen­tury, Napier had invented logarithms. Sur­prisingly, in a short span of years, a consider­able number of mariners adopted them; this in a country where mathematics shortly be­fore had been almost entirely ignored.

At the beginning of the comparatively brief period covered in this work, it was neces­sary for the pilot to have passed a long ap­prenticeship at sea. At the end, navigation had been reduced to a science, and a compe­tent navigator could be trained in months by means of available texts. Usually he knew his latitude with considerable accuracy, and could make his landfall successfully by run­ning down the easting or westing. Only his longitude eluded him. The accurate deter­mination of longitude had to await John Harrison and his chronometer in the next century.

In the Foreword, Admiral of the Fleet the Earl Mountbatten of Burma points out that the advent of the Atomic Age provides the contemporary navigator and scientists with comparable challenges to those the Eliza­bethans faced.

Ship Salvage

By Captain G. J. Wheeler, London: George Philip and Son, Limited, 1958. Illustrated. 154 pages. 15 shillings.

REVIEWED BY

Rear Admiral William A. Sullivan, USN (Ret.)

(Rear Admiral Sullivan has had a long and dis­tinguished career in ship salvage, including service as Chief of Navy Salvage. He is President of the Sullivan Engineering Company and Chairman of Ishikawajima Foster Wheeler Company of Japan.)

Ship Salvage describes a number of salvage operations undertaken by the Royal Navy in World Wars I and II. Captain Wheeler was a senior member of the Admiralty salvage de­partment and at a critical moment in World War II Mediterranean naval operations took command of Britain’s salvage units in that area. Rear Admiral Dewar, who prepared the foreword, was the head of the Admiralty salvage department in World War II, a chal­lenge initially very difficult, but which he eventually overcame by developing a large and efficient organization.

This book has definite limitations. Unless the reader already has an extensive knowledge of salvage requirements, Ship Salvage will pro­vide only a superficial knowledge of the broad as well as particular problems in this field. Desmond Young’s Ships Ashore, pub­lished after World War I and now out of print, remains recommended reading for sea­going officers seeking accurate and detailed information on salvage work.

The American Heritage Book of the Revolution*

By the Editors of the American Heritage, with introduction by Bruce Catton, narra­tive by Bruce Lancaster, and a chapter by J. H. Plumb. New York: Simon & Schuster for the American Heritage Publishing Co., 1958. 384 pages. Maps, illustrations, index. $12.50.

REVIEWED BY

William Bell Clark

(Mr. Clark, is the editor of the Navy Department's projected Documentary Naval and Maritime History of the American Revolution.)

The American Revolution in more than 600 pictures, mostly contemporary and many in full color, together with a sprightly text of the military, economic, diplomatic, and leg­islative history of the period, gives this volume an appeal no bibliophile will be able to resist. The format is ideal for the large and impres­sive reproductions of some of the outstanding historical paintings of Copley, Stuart, West, and Trumbull. Another attractive feature is the wide outside margin of the printed page, permitting the use of interesting vignettes— woodcuts, portraits, maps, and excerpts from the rebel press—to illustrate the narrative.

The arrangement is chronological with major pictures concentrated at the conclusion of each of the fourteen chapters of the ever familiar and well-told tale. There is one

exception; the complete absence of text to the chapter headed “The War at Sea.” In­stead there are twenty pages of illustrations, with numerous lengthy captions, some of them inaccurate and misleading. Naval men will raise eyebrows to learn that John Paul Jones “began his career in the 18-gun Ranger”; the editor thus omits his earlier exploits in the Providence and Alfred in 1776. Connecticut readers will not be happy to read that its navy was devoted “to procure sulphur from the West Indies.” Pennsylvanians will resent the absence of any reference to the Continental and State navies in the defense of the Dela­ware in the Fall of 1777. Strategists, who un­derstand the tactics necessary when naval strength is about twenty to one, will be amused by the conclusion that Continental naval captains were driven to become commerce raiders. Captain David McCullough would turn over in his grave to read that his famous privateer Rattlesnake cruised in the Baltic, when his and her reputation was made in the West Indies.

Battleship “Scharnhorst”**

By Albert Vulliez and Jacques Mordal. Fair Lawn, New Jersey: Essential Books, 1958. 256 pages. Charts, illustrations, in­dex. $6.00.

REVIEWED BY

Captain Roland E. Krause, USN (Ret.)

(Captain Krause has had duly in Germany on several occasions between 1938-1947, and has done extensive research in German naval history.)

This book presents a significant and interest­ing account of the German battleship Scharn- horst’s career, ably written by two French naval officers.

After completing her trials in the Baltic at the beginning of World War II, the Scharn­horst participated in a sortie to the Iceland-

Faroes narrows in which the British auxiliary cruiser Rawalpindi was sunk. In the course of the Norwegian campaign, she took part in two extended cruises and in the sinking of the British aircraft carrier Glorious.

During January-March, 1941, the Scharn­horst and her sister ship, the Gneisenau, con­ducted an extended commerce-destroying raid in the Atlantic. When the ships had broken through the Greenland-Iceland nar­rows, Admiral Leutjens, in command, is re­ported to have said that it was the first time in their history that German surface warships had succeeded in breaking through the British blockade. This is not strictly true, but it was the first time that a German battleship or squadron had broken through. This cruise was successful since much shipping was sunk, and, considering missed opportunities, the prospect for such employment seemed bright. In reality, it was the beginning of a decline; British air attacks rendered Brest and other French bases precarious refuge for German naval forces.

For almost a year the Scharnhorst was out of operations at Brest and La Pallice, under­going repairs and trials. In July, 1941, when she was about ready for service, she was struck by five bombs. The account of condi­tions at Brest will be read with added interest because Vulliez is considered an authority on this subject.

The decline had begun for the Scharnhorst. In February, 1942, she participated in the Channel break-through, suffering two mine hits. Early in 1943 she was again ready for service and was transferred to northern Nor­way. Little was accomplished there although the mere presence of German naval forces had a disturbing effect on the convoys to Russia. Finally, on December 26, 1943, the Scharnhorst was trapped by superior British forces and went down fighting in the North Cape action.

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Compiled by J. H. McCrocklin. 1957. 278 pages. 42 photographs.

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Vol. III—1924-1950                                                                        ........ $10.00 ($7.50)

lustrated.                                                                                                                         ____ ___

Vol. IV—1950-1958                                                    .... $10.00 ($7.50)

Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 320 pages. Il­lustrated.              , ,             ,               „

Special price—2-volume set: Volumes III and IV (listed above) .... $15.00 ($11.25)

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.

Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1952. 640 pages. Il­