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Now It Can Be Told
By Leslie R. Groves, Lieutenant General, U. S. Army (Ret.), Harper and Row Publishers, Inc. Illustrated. 415 pages. $6.95.
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{Assistant Chief, Bureau of Naval Weapons for Research, Development, Test and Evaluation.)
“Never in history has anyone embarking on an important undertaking had so little certainty about how to proceed as we had then.” So General Groves describes the situation in the early days of the Manhattan Project when the plans were proceeding for the construction of the Hanford Plutonium project. As the story of the development and the wartime use of the Atomic bomb unfolds in this remarkable book, the reader cannot help but share the purposeful adventure into the unknown with the project’s dynamic leader.
Here for the first time is the real inside story based on the documented record, most of which has been available only to General Groves. Hanford, Oak Ridge, Los Alamos, the intelligence search for atomic information in Europe, diplomatic negotiations with the British for exchange of information and with the Belgians for raw material, Hiroshima, Nagasaki, and finally the transition to peacetime management are all events of major magnitude. Each chapter deserves book- length treatment for each tells a different part of the story together with its successes and its failures, the decisions, the mistakes, and the lessons learned.
One may wonder if it is worth the time to study the story of the Manhattan Project, for after all, almost 20 years have passed since its beginning, and so much has become general knowledge through the sheer impact on history of its world-shaking events. But this is a timely book for some very significant reasons. General Groves explains his reasons for writing, first, to fill in as many as possible of the gaps existing in the American public’s understanding of the project; second, to emphasize the cohesive entity that was the Manhattan Project, a factor in its success that has been largely overlooked; third, to record the lessons learned. He is certainly describing the first of the “Special Projects” and states, “While ours was the first large organization of its kind, it surely will not be the last. For this reason alone, the story of the Manhattan Project is worth telling.”
The vertical organization approach to the development of our complex weapon systems is now the order of the day. Polaris has its Special Projects Office of the Bureau of Naval Weapons, a special Task Group has been created in the Bureau to improve the readiness of our surface missile systems, and nuclear power has its Code 1500. The Army’s recently established Material Command has announced that it will utilize the Special Project technique in carrying out the development of all its large weapon systems. This book should
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The sinister mushroom of a hydrogen bomb explosion is a symbol of the horrible ultimate in the military arsenal. But the thermonuclear war is not an unthinkable choice says the author of Thinking about the Unthinkable.
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The total vertical management technique is invariably built around a strong individual leader who has been assigned responsibility and commensurate, authority. As he writes, it is clear General Groves was that individual in the Manhattan Project—organizer, administrator, manager, scientist, construction engineer, strategic planner, diplomat, and political Prophet. The leaders of our present vertical organizations will recognize themselves and their problems in this book. Those of us who were fortunate enough to have played a part in the story will read it with pride. Those of us who toil in today’s environment of centralized management, review, and continuous justification will read it with respect for the accomplishments recorded, but with a fair amount of nostalgia as well. And the experience will be rewarding.
Thinking About the Unthinkable
By Herman Kahn. New York: Horizon Press, 1962. 254 pages. $4.50.
REVIEWED BY
Hanson Baldwin
{Mr. Baldwin, a Pulitzer Prize winner, is military editor for the New York Times.)
The author of the controversial book—On Thermonuclear War whose existence as a human being was questioned in a famous review last year in the Scientific American—has now proven his viability by producing another book, Thinking About the Unthinkable.
Mr. Kahn, who was trained as a physicist and mathematician, served for 12 years with the Rand Corporation which has produced many military and policy studies for the services. He is now head of his own policy research organization, the Hudson Institute. Mr. Kahn is a leading exemplar of that relatively new brand of military expert—the operational analyst or war game theorist, whose seemingly impeccable logic and mechanistic procedures, are now extremely popular in many war offices the world over, especially in the Pentagon.
Mr. Kahn’s latest book, which has just been published recently, represents more of the same sort of thing that was presented in his On Thermonuclear War. It deals, in shorter compass, and in somewhat disconnected fashion, with some of the objections raised to his earlier ideas. It reiterates that thermonuclear war is not unthinkable, that the present international order must ultimately be replaced by some kind (unspecified) of universal state; it stresses the complicated nature of evolving a satisfactory strategy for the nuclear age; it suggests various types of deterrence, targeting objectives and bargaining positions, and again emphasizes the need for a “reasonable” civil defense program—“a gradual build-up to an annual budget of a few billion dollars.”
Many of his assertions are controversial; some are wrong, but he is on safe and sound ground when he “argues tentatively” that both unilateral disarmament and preventive war are “choices of despair.”
It is unlikely that Mr. Kahn’s newest defense of his conceptual ideas and, particularly, of his methods of analysis will convince the doubters, or that those who praised his first book will be disappointed by his second.
To the average layman, Mr. Kahn must be at best a difficult—even a tedious—author; for sheer unreadability his books are matched only by the work of a fellow-alumnus of the Rand Corporation—The Economics of Defense in the Nuclear Age by Charles J. Hitch, now Assistant Secretary of Defense and Controller of the Pentagon.
It is curious, therefore, that so technical and laborious a book as On Thermonuclear War elicited such wildly extravagant and completely contradictory comments. The author was described as “the most exciting military strategist in the country” by Thomas C. Schelling, Professor of Economics at Harvard, and his book won some “rave” notices. But at the same time, it provoked such reviews as that of James R. Newman (author of World of Mathematics in the March 1961 issue of The Scientific American). Mr. Newman not only questioned Mr. Kahn’s existence—“no one could write like this; no one could think like this”—but he called On Thermonuclear War, an “evil and tenebrous book, with its loose-lipped pieties and its hayfoot-strawfoot logic ... its bloodthirsty irrationality.”
Thinking About the Unthinkable, which refers in many footnotes to his earlier book, reinforces this reader’s belief that such comments as these represent extremisms, which Mr. Kahn’s work does not deserve. He is not the “most exciting military strategist in the country.” In fact, it is questionable whether he is a strategist at all, for strategy is the art of the pragmatic, and Mr. Kahn is essentially a theoretician. On the contrary, he is—despite Mr. Newman—a human being, probably as devoted to the perpetuation of the human race as Mr. Newman is.
Mr. Kahn’s most important and most defensible thesis in his latest book is that the possibility of thermonuclear war must be faced squarely, that such a war—how to prevent it, what to do if it occurs—must be studied intensively and publicly. It is no good, he insists, to sweep dirt under the bed and pretend it is not there; one must think about the unthinkable.
But the methodology he employs and the almost irrational rationality of his approach in some ways reminds one, in the clinical terms of mathematical formulae and of qualitative and quantitative analyses, of Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World, or George Orwell’s familiar 1984.
The author’s cool rational appraisal of what to do if Power A drops X number of bombs on Power B’s cities, and what logical reaction might be expected in return is lacking in three fundamental respects:
There are so many unknowns and intangibles as to defy solution of the equation of holocaust. (There is not, contrary to Mr. Kahn’s claims, any real agreement about what the author calls the “inescapable technical facts” of shelters and civil defense preparations, which he says “would save many millions of lives.”) Nor has Kahn or anyone else produced a thorough program for survival after emergence from shelters. And cobalt bombs, or thermonuclear weapons so frightful that the author calls them “doomsday machines” could invalidate all the theories here
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presented. And political factors—the X of the social sciences—are largely ignored.
And human beings and human reactions cannot be analyzed—thank God—in a test tube of theory. There is no rational approach to irrationality, and human emotions lead to unpredictable deviations from straight-line thinking. It may make no rational sense in the eyes of Secretary of Defense Robert S. McNamara, for instance, for France to possess a small unilateral nuclear deterrent; if the chips were down, her own puny efforts might not save her from destruction. But she will acquire this nuclear force, nonetheless, and she might even use it, under certain conditions, even though its use might precipitate her own destruction.
The “Charge of the Light Brigade” at Balaklava had no rational military meaning; it was magnificent, but it was not war. Yet it happened.
Mr. Kahn and his devotees in the Pentagon might well reread Robert Southey’s “The Battle of Blenheim”:
“But what good came of it at last?”
Quoth little Peterkin.
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said he;
“But ’twas a famous victory.”
The weakness of game theory and of operational analysis, and hence of this book, is that they too often deal with war as with a mathematical equation. Yet the unknowns and the intangibles make war an art, not a science; it is waged by human beings, and subject to all the emotions and the irrationalities and illogicalities of which human beings are capable.
As Sir Solly Zuckerman, scientific adviser to the British Minister of Defense and chairman of the British Defense Research Policy Committee has pointed out, operational analysis and war gaming are tools to be used but never to determine. In an article in the January 1962 issue of Foreign Affairs, he warned that “theoretical operational analysis is only an aid to, not a substitute for human judgment,” and that it has often led to the “wrong answers.”
Mr. Kahn has done a useful job by focusing the spotlight of his intelligence upon the problems of nuclear war, but his very tentative conclusions and assertions must be heavily leavened by the generalizations of the political and social sciences, by the intangibles of human nature and by the values of experience.
A History of the Cold War
By John Lukacs. Garden City: Doubleday
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Army (Retired)
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Those who have the time and are interested in studying the increasing effort in this country to make us believe that co-existence with Soviet Russia and Red China is possible, should read this book. For it will certainly add to the coexisters’ camp.
In his preface, the author states that the book “is concerned primarily with history of Russian-American relations in Europe and to some extent in the Far East. It is not a survey
of the contemporary historical development of the world.”
This shows that the tide of the book A History of the Cold War is erroneous.
This is, for the simple reason, that the Cold War, as far as we are concerned, embraces the whole world. We are confronted with the Cold War in Latin America, in Africa, in Europe and, above all, in Asia.
The more the situation in the Far East develops, the more it is evident that the Pacific Ocean and the Far East are as important to us as are the Atlantic and Europe.
The greater part of the book is devoted to the author’s effort to show that the expansion °f Russia and the United States are quite similar. In general, it may be said that he gives the impression there is little or no reason for any differences between them.
The extent to which the author goes to prove that their expansions are similar are such statements as: “Outside of Russia, Khrushchev and the Army did succeed, after all, in restoring order in Hungary and throughout Europe quickly and ably.”
He does not give any corresponding example for the United States for the simple reason that there is no such suppression by armed forces of any free nation. Then again he says, between 1948 and 1958, for instance, the Russians did not conquer a single square mile of new territory.
They did not have to, because what they had swallowed as the result of Yalta and Potsdam consisted of tremendous gains both 'ti Central Europe and Eastern Asia. Again:
The Soviet Union has interfered little with the American position in the Western Hemisphere. Even in the bitterest and most suspicious beginning phase of the cold war in 1947, the Russians agreed in the United Nations to the American trusteeship over vast areas in the Pacific. They did not protest against the incorporation of Alaska or of Hawaii into the Union . . . the Russian Government ... at most protesting by word or extending some economic support to Mexico, Guatemala or Cuba. . . .
The Kurile Islands, which Roosevelt allowed Russia to seize, the Japanese half of Sakhalin, the making of the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk practically into Russian lakes, all solidified Russia’s military position in the Far
East and threatened not only Japan but Alaska, which the United States bought and paid for in cash from Russia. And, of course, his treatment of Cuba is wholly outdated.
Here and there in the book, there is a trace of the propaganda that Germany, and not Russia, is “the thief in the international chicken coop.” The author, by birth a Hungarian, now an American citizen, maintains that he is not a Communist and that he is for the West. However, there are many today who are not Communists, who are for the West, but who so fear a nuclear war, that they favor co-existence with Russia and would like to see us favor the continued split of Germany into three parts and restore it once more to the position of the “bad boy” who has always caused trouble in Europe.
It is one more book among many which attempt to obliterate the fact that Communist Russia and China are our determined enemies.
A History of Russia
By Jesse D. Clarkson. New York: Random
House, 1961. Illustrated. Maps. Bibliography. Appendices. Index. 857 pages.
REVIEWED BY
Commander B. M. Kassell, U. S. Navy
(Retired)
“Nature is still nature and man is still man, not God,” as Dr. Jesse D. Clarkson, Professor of History at Brooklyn College, has chosen to express it, is one of the problems of history and, at the same time, one of the cornerstones of that history, much as we tend to forget it.
Behind this thought, perhaps, is the basic reason why reviewing history is, on one hand, a thankless task, yet, on the other a fascinating one. This book is an outstanding example of what we mean.
Here we have 11 centuries of history, from Rurik, the legendary Viking founder of the Kingdom of Rus, to Nikita S. Khrushchev, compressed into a relatively slim volume; 11 centuries of legend and fact—distilled, redistilled and, in sum, the essence of one man’s experience in teaching Russian history for over 30 years.
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Yet the difficulties in this undertaking, admitted in full by the author, lie in the fact that of the 37 chapters in the book, 26 are required to bring us to Brest Litovsk; only eight are devoted to the all-important interWar years covering Russia’s economic expansion, the development of Communism into a worldwide and major disruptive force, and the road to World War II. And when we come to the post World War II period, which, in the book, ends in a epilogue cover- mg the years 1953-1961, we are in for some disappointments. The reduction of this eight- year period into so short a space merely serves to emphasize the difficulty in attempting to compress this vast span of history into one volume. This problem becomes all the more difficult when it is recognized that this is the Period which is so vital to present-day understanding of the Soviet Union and the interaction of national and natural forces which have resulted in enormous expenditures for strictly military purposes by virtually every nation in the world; in the meaning of the Phrase “the cold war” to convey a way of life for us, and for our children and yet, a period Which has seen the opening of the vast reaches °f space, perhaps for those very same children.
With all due respect to Dr. Clarkson’s efforts at readability, and this is very readable history, this is a text book, a reference volume Which must be read as such, or studied, probably, in order to take advantage of the distillation of countless source materials (the bibliography alone covers 34 pages). The author has approached this formidable mass °f materials with a reasonably clear developmental process in mind. And one can find no Quarrel with the manner in which the chro- n°l°gy js developed, or in the manner in which specific, and special materials have been woven into the text in the form of footnotes and special comments, many in the form of further and suggested readings. In this way the door has been left open for the selection of the book as a new textbook for a two-semester Russian history course.
For the lay reader, the historically minded reader, there is a sufficient leavening remaining so that palatability is imparted; most of the debatable materials, or doubtful ones, having been relegated to footnote type remarks.
A minor fault, but irritating to the re-
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viewer, is the author’s use, throughout the text, of transliterated Russian words, sometimes translated, sometimes not, which tend to interrupt the continuity of otherwise flowing prose. Nor is a glossary of the terms and expressions appended for reference.
In the later portions of the book, that is, in the period since the end of World War II, there is almost complete reliance on Soviet source materials and it is in the use of these materials that Dr. Clarkson’s knowledge, experience and ability permit him to give the reader the benefit of his analysis and provide interpretations of what could frequently be considered as highly suspect sources.
Although the author is the first to admit that it is not the “proper task of history to prophesy the precise shape of things to come,” it is interesting to note that Soviet foreign policy, in the inter-war years (1918— 1939), was broken down into three, fairly clearly defined phases—collective security, the lone wolf period, and the period of collaboration. Are we not, today, in danger of closing a similar triangle?
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• Of major importance in the growing literature of unconventional warfare is Modern Guerrilla Warfare (Macmillan-Free Press, $7.50) edited byF. M. Osanka. Consisting of 37 selections, mostly by U. S. authorities, it touches on guerrilla operations as practiced during and after World War II in the U.S.S.R., China, Philippines, Greece, Southeastern Asia, Cuba, and Algeria. Of particular merit is the book’s Foreword written by Columbia University’s Samuel P. Huntington, and containing useful bibliography. Similar in scope is the U. S. Army’s recent illustrated, troop information booklet, The U. S. Army and Special Warfare, which consists of 19 articles similar in nature to the Osanka work.
• Most penetrating and thorough is the latest and best analytical study of the Russian- Chinese doctrinal squabble: The Sino-Soviet Conflict, 1956—1961 (Princeton, $8.50) by Donald D. Zagoria, a Rand Corporation expert who reveals that he possesses the talents and skills to go deep into the inner workings of these two Communist enigmas, to clear away the superficial coverings, and to reveal the hard, factual core of the Moscow-Peking friction. This work merits—and will require—more than casual reading and quick digestion.
• New Jersey Physician Douglas Robinson has long had a keen interest in German Zeppelins and has, in fact, published an article on this theme in the Proceedings (July 1956). Dr. Robinson’s avocation has led to the publication of The ^eppelin in Combat (Foulis, 63/), a thoroughly researched book containing much material hitherto unavailable in English. Herein, for example, is the most detailed statistical study of the 74 zeppelins which with their crews constituted Imperial Germany’s World War I Naval Airship Division.
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By Commander F. L. Sawyer, USN (Ret.). Personal narrative of gunboat experiences in the Philippines, 1899-1900. 1946. 153 pages. Illustrated.
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By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript. 1915-1949). 1949. 228 pages. Illustrated.
We Build A Navy....................................................................................................................... $2.75 ($2.07)
By Lieutenant Commander H. H. Frost, USN. A vivid and dramatic narrative of our early Navy. 1929. 501 pages. Illustrated.
WORLD WAR II—KOREA (U. S.)
Most Dangerous Sea...................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. 1959. 322 pages. 38 photographs.
The Sea War in Korea............................................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Malcolm W. Cagle, USN, and Commander Frank A. Manson, USN. 1957. 555 pages. 176 photographs. 20 charts.
The United States Coast Guard in World War II................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Malcolm F. Willoughby. 1957. 347 pages. 200 photographs. 27 charts.
United States Destroyer Operations in World War II............................................................... $10.00 ($7.50)
By Theodore Roscoe. 1953. 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 anil
Submarine books (listed above).............................................................................................. }I7.S0 (f 13.13)
WORLD WAR II—(OTHER NATIONS)
I)er Scekricg, The German Navy’s Story 1939-1945 ............................................................. $5.00 ($3.75)
By Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, German Navy. 1957. 440 pages. 43 photographs. 19 charts.
The Divine Wind, Japan’s Kamakaze Force in World War II............................... $4.50 ($3.38)
By Captain Rikihei Inoguchi and Commander Tadashi Nakajima, former Imperial Japanese Navy, with Commander Roger l’ineau, USNR. 1958. 240 pages. 61 photographs. 3 diagrams.
The French Navy in World War II............................................................................................. $6.00 ($4.50)
By Rear Admiral l’attl Auphan, French Navy (Ret.), and Jacques Mordal. Translated by Captain A. C. J. Sabalot, USN (Ret.). 1959. 413 pages. 32 photographs. 13 charts and diagrams.
The Hunters and the Hunted................................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.63)
By Rear Admiral Aldo Cocchia, Italian Navy (Reserve). 1958. 180 pages. Photographs and diagrams.
The Italian Navy in World War II.............................................................................................. $5.75 ($4.32)
By Commander Marc'Antonio Bragadin, Italian Navy. 1957. 380 pages. 121 photographs. 17 diagrams.
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 1’ineau and Clarke Kawakami. 1955. 266 pages. Illustrated.
White Ensign, The British Navy at War, 1939-1945 ................................................................. $4.50 ($3.38)
By Captain S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., R.N. (Ret.). 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement............................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Commander Walter C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paper bound.
Geography and National Power.................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Edited by Professor William W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 155 pages.
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. 956 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Logistics........................................................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). 1960. 351 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review........................................................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available. Illustrated. Maps. 14 essays. 3 appendices. 350 pages.
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 $2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding F.Iiot. 1958. 126 pages.
SEAMANSHIP
The Art of Knotting and Splicing............................................................................................ $5.00 ($3.75)
By Cyrus Day. Step-by-step pictures facing explanatory text. 2nd edition, 1955. 224 pages. Naval Shiphandling $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 2nd edition, 1960. 529 pages. 175 illustrations.
NAVIGATION—PILOTING
Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting............................................................................................. $8.00 ($6.40)
Prepared by Commander J. C. Hill, II, USN, Lieutenant Commander T. F. Utegaard, USN, and Gerard Riordan. (A completely rewritten text which supplants Navigation and Nautical Astronomy.) 1st edition, 1958. 771 pages. Illustrated.
Practical Manual of the Compass............................................................................................. $3.61) ($2.88)
By Captain Harris Laning, USN, and Lieutenant Commander H. D. McGuire, USN. 1921. 173 pages. Illustrated.
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. Third Edition, 1954. 536 pages. Illustrated.
PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy...................................................................................... $1.95 ($1.56)
Revised by Captain John V. Noel, Jr., USN, Commander Frederick C. Dyer, USNR, and Master Chief Journalist William J. Miller, USN. 16th edition, 1960. 641 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual.............................................................................................. $4.00 ($3.20)
By Captain W. C. Hogan, USCG, Revised by Lieutenant Commander M. M. Dickinson, USCGR, assisted by Loran W. Behrens, BMC, USN-FR. 3rd edition, 1958. 819 pages. Illustrated.
Division Officer’s Guide.......................................................................................................... $2.25 ($1.80)
By Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 4th edition, 1959. 282 pages.
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.
By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, USN /Ret.), with Captain William P. Mack, USN. 5th edition, 1960. 649 pages. Illustrated.
Watch Officer’s Guide............................................................................... <j;9 r^g ^ 00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th edition, 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
leadership
The Naval Officer’s Guide....................................................................................................... $G.75 ($5.40)
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services................................ $5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Charles W. Shilling (MC), USN. 1955.292 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Leadership, 2nd edition...................................................................................... $3.50 ($2.80)
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, Captain Frank J. Mulholland, USMC, Commander John M. Laudenslager, MSC, USNR, Lieutenant Horace J. Connery, MSC, USN, Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), and Associate Professor Gregory J. Mann.
1959. 301 pages.
Naval Leadership, 1st edition................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
Prepared at the U. S. Naval Academy for instruction of midshipmen. 1949. 324 pages.
Selected Readings in Leadership.............................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Compiled by Commander Malcolm E. Wolfe, USN, and Captain F. J. Mulholland, USMC. Revised by Leadership Committee, Command Department, U. S. Naval Academy. Revised,
1960. 126 pages. Paper bound.
ENGINEERING
Descriptive Analysis of Naval Turbine Propulsion Plants......................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander C. N. Payne, USN. 1958. 187 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships..... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Thomas C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd edition, revised, 1959. 373 pages. Illustrated.
Internal Combustion Engines........................................................ $5.00 ($4.00)
By Commander P. W. Gill, USN, Commander J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Professor E. J- Ziurys. 4th edition, 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Applied Aerodynamics.......................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
By Commander Gregg Mueller, USN. 1957. 178 pages. Paper bound.
Introduction to Marine Engineering............................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention................................................ $10.00 ($8.00)
MATHEMATICS
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables......................................... $1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
The Rule of Nine.............................................................................. $ -60 ($ .48)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paper bound.
ELECTRONICS
Fundamentals of Sonar.................................................................. $10.00 ($8.00)
By Dr. J. Warren Horton. 2nd edition, 1959. 417 pages. 186 figures.
Edited by Professor John L. Daley, U. S. Naval Academy, and Commander F. S. Quinn, Jr., USN. 2nd edition, 1957. 492 pages. 556 figures.
Principles of Electronics and Electronic Systems...................... $7.50 ($6.00)
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial................................................................................. $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paper bound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers ................................................................................ $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Burdick H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson. 2nd edition, 1960. 318 pages. Illustrated.
Military Law......................................................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Compiled by Captain J. K. Taussig, Jr., USN (Ret.), and Commander H. B. Sweitzer, USN. Revised and edited by Commander M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Lieutenant Commander R. I. Gulick, USN. 1958. 90 pages.
LANGUAGES
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese........................................................................................... $6.50. ($5.20)
By Associate Professor Guy J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages.
Naval Phraseology...................................................................................................................... $4.50. ($3.60)
English-French-Spanish-Italian-German-Portuguese. 1953. 326 pages.
Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, I960 By Professor Claude I’. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. One—109 pages. Paper bound............................................................................................ $2.50. ($2.00)
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paper bound.................................................................... $2.50. ($2.00)
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology.................................................................................. $4.00. ($3.20)
By Professor Claude I’. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd edition, 1954. 140 pages.
SERVICE LIFE
The Best of Taste, The Finest Food of Fifteen Nations.......................................................... $4.00. ($3.00)
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage........................................................................................ $5.50. ($4.13)
By Vice Admiral Leland P. Lovette, USN (Ret.). 4th edition, 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea.............................................................................................................................. $3.50. ($2.62)
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, U. S. Navy.
The Sailor’s Wife........................................................................................................................ $1.50. ($1.13)
By Lucy Wright. 1962. 112 pages. 28 cartoons. Paper bound.
Service Etiquette......................................................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.13)
By Rear Admiral Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), Captain Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Oretha D. Swartz. Correct Social Usage for Service Men on Official and Unofficial Occasions. 1959. 365 pages.
Welcome Aboard........................................................................................................................ $4.00 ($3.00)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 5th edition, 1960. 273 pages.
SPORTS-------- ATHLETICS
Physical Education Series—V-5 Association of America
Basketball . . . Temporarily out of stock
Boxing...................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
Revised, 1950. 288 pages Conditioning Exercises . . $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1960. 275 pages Football . . . Temporarily out of stock
How to Survive on
Land and Sea..................... $4.00 ($3.00)
2nd revised edition, 1956. 366 pages
Intramural Programs . . . $4.00 ($3.00)
Revised, 1950. 249 pages
Soccer.............................. $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1961. 172 pages
Swimming and Diving . . • $4.50 ($3.38)
3rd edition, 1962' 345 pages
Gymnastics and Tumbling . $4.50 ($3.38) Track and Field.......................... $4.00 ($3.00)
2nd revised edition, 1959. 414 pages Revised, 1950. 217 pages
Hand to Hand Combat . . $4.00 ($3.00) Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 ($3.38)
1943.228 pages 1958. 223 pages
Modern Fencing.......................................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
By Clovis Deladrier, U. S. Naval Academy. 1948. 289 pages. Illustrated.
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Photographs and diagrams. Paper bound.
Squash Racquets.......................................................................................................................... $1.60 ($1.28)
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today.......................................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.00)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1957. 300 pages. 59 photographs.
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.
Vour 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. 1955 Paper bound.
Proceedings Cover Pictures.......................................................................................................... $2.50 ($1.88)
Sets of all 12 cover pictures appearing on the Proceedings in each year of 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959. Printed on 13 X 13 mat. Complete set of 12 for any year.
Reef Points
The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1962-1963 ...................................................................... $1.35, net
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