Book Reviews
The Ship
By Bjorn Landstrom. Garden City: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1961. 810 illustrations, with 160 pages in full color, 160 pages in two-color. 807 pages. $14.95.
Reviewed by Howard I. Chapelle
The Ship is the outstanding illustrated history of shipbuilding that has been published in the last decade. It is a splendidly illustrated catalog of ships of all ages; from primitive rafts, reed and skin boats, and dugouts to the nuclear-powered Savannah.
An undertaking of this kind requires great skill in the author-illustrator, particularly as he has chosen to draw ancient craft realistically. This necessitates reconstruction of ships, based upon inadequate contemporary illustrations and descriptions. The author-illustrator has met this requirement with masterly skill, and what might have been a mere popular picture book becomes a most useful technical and historical reference. The Ship is, therefore, a book that is a “must” in the libraries of marine historians, ship-model builders, artists and ship-lovers. This is not due entirely to the excellence of the restorations, but also to the use of original, contemporary material in sketches, in conjunction with the restoration drawings, some of which are in color. It is possible to see just what the author-illustrator had as source material for his interpretation or reconstruction of a given ship.
The reconstruction of Phoenician biremes and of the early Greek penteconters, biremes, triremes, quadriremes, and quinquiremes leads, naturally, to critical comments, for this is a controversial field. The drawing of the Phoenician bireme, for example, shows a most unseaworthy hull, and this reviewer has doubts that such great seamen as the Phoenicians would utilize this unstable design. It is also interesting to note that Landstrom, like almost all reconstructors of the multi-bank galleys of the Greeks and Romans, shows them with vertical-sided midsections. It would be useful to try flaring-sided midsections in future reconstructions, for this form of midsection was, and is, common in the Mediterranean. It is to be noted that Landstrom’s reconstructions of these ancient galleys are well proportioned and practical.
The Viking age is presented with great knowledge and feeling, laying the foundation for a fine presentation of the developments up to and through the Middle Ages. The ships of the 13th, 14th, and 15th centuries are reconstructed in drawings of great distinction and apparent accuracy.
The galleys and galley ships of the 15th, 16th, and 17th centuries are shown in great detail and in drawings of great beauty. Indeed, the draftsmanship is most skillful throughout the book. The extent of the research utilized is obviously very great. The development illustrated in ships of the line, frigates, brigs, xebecs, and corvettes is well recorded in Landstrom’s fine drawings, yet Americans will not be entirely happy with his rather quick bow to the colonial sloops, Baltimore Clippers, packet ships, and to the American accomplishments in clipper ship design.
The presentation of European and Asiatic small craft and native types is highly satisfactory, but again America’s craft are omitted, except for the pilot-boat and fishing schooner.
The history of the development of the steam and powered vessels shown in The Ship is predominantly European and naval. Emphasis is on seagoing vessels—perhaps it should be, but illustrations of the American sound and bay steamers, and of European and Eastern shoal draught steamers, would have given a more balanced picture of the steamship age.
The Ship cannot be compared with any of the popular picture books on the subject, for it is a product of long and careful research rather than of just a collection of illustrations. The book’s short introduction by Dr. R. C. Anderson, the English authority, expresses the reviewer’s opinion of Mr. Landstrom’s high ability and his success in producing a valuable book on the history of the ship through the ages.
Uniforms of the Sea Services, A Pictorial History
By Colonel Robert H. Rankin, U. S. Marine Corps. Annapolis, Maryland: U. S. Naval Institute, 1963. 324 pages. Illustrated. Appendices. Bibliography. Index. $24.50.
Reviewed by Henry I. Shaw, Jr.
What is it that makes a Navy man stand out in a crowd, that sets him apart from the general public? However great his qualities of leadership, intelligence, and courage, they are seldom evident to the casual observer. His uniform is what gives him the mark of a man. Viewed as living evidence of a martial past, a uniform can come alive to the imaginative and the informed; it can be read as a text in naval and military history. The colors, the insignia, the decorations, the adornments—these all have meaning. Oddly enough, the very men who wear these uniforms often know the least about them.
In the field of American uniform history, the seafaring services have been largely neglected. This absence of information on which to base knowledge is understandable when one considers that much of the uniform information that has been published is long out of print and is largely unknown or unavailable to researchers and writers. For years there has been a need for a good book on the subject, or perhaps two books: one for the meticulous student and the other for the general reader. Colonel Rankin’s volume is a successful attempt to answer the questions of the average, interested person, and mainly because of this popular orientation, it falls short of the standards that uniform history scholars would like to see.
Colonel Rankin did not set out to write a book for the quibbling “expert,” although there is much of value in its pages for such men. More wisely, the author directed his talents as writer and researcher to a broad survey of Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard uniform from the Revolution to the present. In addition to the main narrative concerning officers’ and enlisted men’s dress, there is adequate coverage of the women’s services and chapters concerning swords and medals as part of the uniform. Details are there but they do not overburden the reader. The colonel is an experienced writer who has made easy to understand a subject that can be deadly boring, and who has reduced a mass of regulations and similar verbiage to a narrative relatively free of technical jargon. He has also attempted to lay to rest a number of long standing traditions about the origin of certain items of uniform, such as the quatre- foil on Marine officers’ caps. It is doubtful that he can convince the romanticists that the subject knot is not a relic of the days of fighting sail; no amount of reasoned explanation seems to shake a flattering or ego-building tradition.
The high point of this book, however, is not the text but the illustrations. Thirty-six full quarto page color plates, many showing several figures, cover the historic range of naval uniform. Liberally spread throughout the pages are other, single-color illustrations— plates, photographs, and drawings—that enhance the comprehensive view of the sailor and the Marine.
Only a few of the color plates are contemporary to the early years; most show reconstructions of historic uniforms done in the modern era, but the standard of art and scholarship is high. The identified artists, in particular H. Charles McBarron, Jr. and John H. Magruder, III, are recognized authorities in the uniform research field. The several plates done by these men are excellent. Strangely enough, there are a number of plates done of naval uniforms executed in lively style, that are not credited to any artist or source. One of these figures, a cocky sailing master of 1812, highlights the jacket and the title page of the book.
The reproduction of color has been very well handled, justifying the additional time that the editors of the Naval Institute took to ensure the quality. The plates from the rare uniform regulations of the mid-nineteenth century are faithful duplicates of the originals with which I have compared them. Copies of the limited edition, hand-colored plates of the Military Uniforms in America series of The Company of Military Historians come out particularly well. Color photographs—and there are a number among the plates of more recent uniforms—reproduce faithfully the actual colors of the uniforms.
Taken altogether, the illustrations are a good representative selection of the whole range of our uniform history. There is almost an even balance between Navy and Marine Corps dress depicted, which is explainable not so much by the author’s natural bias as by the fact that Marine uniforms have changed more often and more drastically.
There is a fault to this book that bothers me, since it is one that might easily have been remedied and one that would have made the book more useful to the person interested in exploring the subject further. There is no illustration credit list. Although much of the material used is attributed to various sources in captions, an equal amount is not. Someone well versed in uniform literature might be able to tie the sources listed in the excellent bibliography to the various pictures, but such inductive reasoning should not be necessary. If, as is certainly possible, this book is reprinted when the first edition is exhausted, the inclusion of such a credit list should be considered seriously. Similarly, annotations by the author in the bibliography to supplement the bare listing of items consulted would add greatly to its value as a research aid.
In over-all assessment, Uniforms of the Sea Services does what the author set out to make it do. It gives a pictorial history of naval uniforms that is accurate and readable. The work is handsomely presented, a fine example of book making that is a credit to the Naval Institute. The price is unquestionably stiff for most purses, but fair when the extent of the color work, the use of coated paper, the large number of illustrations, and the pleasing openness of the layout are considered. The day when color-illustrated uniform books were inexpensive is long gone. And to tell the truth, much of the color work in the old works is poor and questionable. The mass- produced chromolithographs of the turn of the century and the rarer book illustrations of the early 1800’s are often useful only as decorations and curiosities. While this book is decorative, and purposefully so, it is also useful and should be of interest to anyone with a real love of the flavor of our naval history.
Military Strategy (Voyennaya Strategiva)
V. D. Sokolovskiy, Marshal of the Soviet Union, editor.
Moscow: Voyennoye Izdatel’stvo Minister- stva Oborony USSR (Military Publisher of the Ministry of Defense USSR). 1962. 426 pages.
Translated by the Foreign Technology Division, Air Force Systems Command, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, Ohio. 612 pages.
(Available from the Office of Technical Services, U. S. Department of Commerce, Washington 25, D. C., in photocopy for $26.00.)
Excerpted by Hunter Alexander, Lieutenant, USNR-R
Military Strategy is a Marxist analysis of war from earliest times to the present, but with particular emphasis on World War II and the role of nuclear weapons and strategic weapons in future war.
Stalin’s “permanently operating factors” decisively affecting the outcome of any future war were: (1) stability of the rear; (2) morale of the troops; (3) quantity and quality of the divisions; (4) armament; and (5) organizing ability of command personnel. These are now discarded.
Vasiliy Danilovich Sokolovskiy, now 66, has seen enough of war to take a rather pragmatic approach to strategy despite his ideological baggage. In World War II he served on the Polish Front as Chief of Staff to Marshal Konev. He was awarded seven Order of Lenin medals and declared a “Hero of the Soviet Union.” From 1949 to 1960 he was First Deputy Minister of Defense of the U.S.S.R., according to the Institute for the Study of the U.S.S.R. in Munich. Marshal Sokolovskiy also served as Chief of Staff, Soviet Army and Navy, until 1960 and continues to serve in the Defense Ministry.
For Marshal Sokolovskiy and his collaborators there is only one “permanently operating factor,” the strategic rocket with nuclear warhead. Since their success in orbiting the first sputnik in 1957, the Soviets have emphasized rockets. The most recent evidence of this was the appointment of Marshal Sergei S. Biryuzov, commander of Soviet Strategic Missile Troops, to the position of Chief of Staff, Soviet Army and Navy. Strategic Missile Troops, now a separate branch of the armed forces, like the Army, Navy, and Air Force, “make up the foundation of massive armed forces,” writes Sokolovskiy.
He also states, “Military strategy under conditions of modern warfare becomes the strategy of deep nuclear-rocket penetration in conjunction with the operations of all branches of the armed forces in order to effect simultaneous defeat and destruction of the economic potential and armed forces throughout the enemy territory. ...”
Sokolovskiy explains how large land armies, war industry, and mobilization are affected by strategic rockets. “The ancient and still-existent principle of concentrating the forces and means in the decisive direction,” says the author, “requires a radically new approach.” The new approach combines “swift penetration of tanks and motorized infantry” with dispersed columns and better command and control facilities.
The importance of decentralization of industry is discussed: “Under present-day conditions no geographical arrangement of industrial objectives will protect them from nuclear-rocket attack and therefore their viability must be insured by compulsory dispersion, duplication of production. ...”
The devastating power of nuclear weapons will complicate future mobilization, requiring localities to take the initiative to mobilize troops without close supervision or guidance from Moscow.
In late 1961, Defense Minister Malinovskiy announced that his country had solved the problem of the anti-missile missile. In the following statement, however, Sokolovskiy qualifies or even contradicts his chief: “Ballistic rockets used in large quantities are still practically invulnerable to existing means of air defense, and their use is almost independent of meteorological conditions. The combating of the massive use of rockets in the air will be possible only as special techniques of antirocket defenses are developed.”
“The problems of using outer space for military purposes,” is the title of one section of the book. It is argued that the American program forces the peace-loving Soviets to embark on a military space program. Sokolovskiy was recently quoted as saying that “an important problem now is warfare with artificial earth satellites, which can be launched for diverse reasons, even as carriers of nuclear weapons.”
If Sokolovskiy is most aggressive talking about rockets, he is most defensive when discussing the Navy. “The basic aim of these (naval) operations,” he says, “will be to defeat the enemy naval forces, primarily the defeat of carrier-based shock units and the annihilation of rocket-carrying nuclear submarines, and also the disrupting of enemy naval communications.” He thus assigns the Soviet Navy three objectives in this order: (1) strike carriers; (2) Polaris submarines; (3) Western maritime communications. Only the last objective is basically offensive.
Professional Reading
By Robert M. Langdon
• During World War II, the light cruiser USS Montpelier (CL-57) participated in 26 Pacific War invasions, 42 operations, and 30 campaigns; she also bombarded Japanese-held strongholds 53 times. One of the ship’s enlisted men, Seaman First Class James Fahey, kept a remarkably detailed and revealing personal account of his ship’s 1942-45 career, and that rather unusual account is now available in Pacific War Diary 1942-1945 (Houghton, Mifflin, $6.50). While this book contains nothing sensational, it is one of the few “lower deck” accounts of the Pacific War and as such ranks most favorably with The Wake of the Wahoo (Chilton, 1960), Yeoman Forest J. Sterling’s fine personal account of that ill-fated submarine’s war exploits, under the command of “Marsh” Morton.
• The fourth volume of the official U. S. Marine Operations in Korea, 1950-1953 (Government Printing Office, $2.25), whose senior editor was the late Lynn Montross, deals with the so-called East-Central Front, where the First Marine Division and the First Marine Aircraft Wing fought from late December 1950 to March 1952. When this series is finished (one more volume to come), its illustrations, maps, notes, bibliography, appendices, index, and highly authoritative basis will combine to make it a unique and highly significant record of the Marine Corps’ participation in the Korean conflict.
• Often the U. S. government, by its official publications, gives considerable assistance to our adversaries in the intelligence-gathering field. This unintended assistance, however, must simply be regarded as one of the unavoidable side effects of the way in which we run our democracy. Probably no single governmental document reveals as much about our current defenses status as the long-titled, Hearings on Military Posture and H.R. 2440, to Authorize Appropriations During Fiscal Year 1964 for Procurement, Research, Development, Test, and Evaluation of Aircraft, Missiles, and Naval Vessels for the Armed Forces And For Other Purposes Before the Committee on Armed Services, House of Representatives 88th Congress, First Session (available through the Committee office). This 1,314-page document consists of high-level testimony setting forth where and how we stand in the over-all military area. Even a casual inspection of this weighty document will reveal much on such current issues as Cuba, and the B-70, Polaris forces, etc.
• The latest number in the 50-odd volume U. S. Army history of World War II is Robert R. Smith’s Triumph in the Philippines (Government Printing Office, $10.50). This is the most complete account of what was the largest joint campaign of the Pacific War. Taking up the story after the recapture of Leyte and Samar, Smith covers in great detail the U. S. Army’s operations in the recovery of the Philippines but produces enough of the air, naval, and logistics background to make this a well-rounded account complete with the usual highly useful annotated bibliography which characterizes each volume of this series.
• Of special value in the Soviet foreign relations field is J. M. Macintosh’s Strategy and Tactics of Soviet Foreign Policy (Oxford, $6.50), an authoritative study examining the major foreign policy decisions of the Soviets since 1944, the year when the Soviet bloc first began to reveal itself. Particular attention is devoted to the post-1957 role of missile and nuclear technology in Soviet foreign policy. M.I.T.’s William E. Griffith’s Albania and the Sino-Soviet Rift (Technology Press of M.I.T., $7.95) is a heavily-documented, highly authoritative analysis of the role of that minute Balkan state, currently a symbol of the Moscow-Peking cleavage.
BOOKS
by United States Naval Institute
Special postpaid price to members of the U. S. Naval Institute, both regular and associate, is shown in parentheses. Prices subject to change without notice. On orders for Maryland delivery, please add 3 per cent sales tax. These books may be ordered from the U. S. Naval Institute, Annapolis, Maryland
NEW AND CURRENT
Annapolis Today.............................................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. An authentic account of the routine, customs, studies, drills, events, landmarks, and social activities at the world’s largest naval school. This new edition is completely revised and illustrated with new photographs. 329 pages. 1963.
Baseball.........................................................................................$4.50 ($3.38)
By Robert Spackman, Jr. Here is a book that covers the fundamentals of baseball—the duties of all members from the manager to the batboy are outlined and explained. Tips on batting, fielding, pitching, conditioning, and base stealing make this a great book for player, coach, or trainer. 1963. 175 pages. 130 illustrations.
Naval Logistics...............................................................................$5-50 ($4.40)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.) This second edition has been revised to include the missions and roles of the Defense Supply Agency. Index. 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ............................................................$10.00 ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available.1962.14 essays. 3 appendices. 350 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Service Etiquette............................................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Captain Brooks J. Harral, U.S. Navy, and Oretha D. Swartz. Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. The guide to correct social usage on official and unofficial occasions for me and women in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force. Second Edition. 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road............................................$2.00 ($1.60)
By Lieutenant O. W. Will, III, USN. 1962. 110 pages. Illustrated.
Studies in Guerrilla Warfare...........................................................$2.50 ($1.88)
By Captain Brooks J Harral, U. S. Navy, and Oretha D. Swartz. Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. The guide to correct social usage on official and unofficial occasions for men and women in the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, and Air Force. Second Edition. 1963. 450 pages.
This series of studies, each written by an expert in the field, covers bipartisan war and guerrilla tactics used by friendly as well as communist forces in China, Greece, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Vietnam, and Cuba. Originally published as articles in Proceedings. 1963. 90 pages. Illustrated. Paper bound.
Uniforms of the Sea Services.....................................................$24.50 ($18.38)
By Colonel Robert H. Rankin, U.S.MC. A comprehensive pictorial history of the uniforms of the U. S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from the Revolution to the present. 1963. 328 pages. Special Collector’s copies, signed by the author—$30.00.
HISTORY—BIOGRAPHY
Amerika Samoa: A History of American Samoa and Its United States Naval Administration................................................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Captain J. A. C. Gray (MC) USN. 1960.295 pages Illustrated.
David Glasgow Farragut
By Professor Charles L. Lewis, U. S. Naval Academy.
Vol. I, Admiral in the Making, 1941. 372 pages. Illustrated............$3.75 ($2.82)
Vol. II, Our First Admiral. 1943. 513 pages. Illustrated...................$4.50 ($3.38)
Garde D’ Haiti 1915-1934: Twenty Years of Organization
and Training by the United States Marine Corps...........................$4.50 ($3.38)
Compiled by J. H. McCrocklin. 1956. 262 pages. 42 photographs.
Greyhounds of the Sea................................................................$12.50 ($9.38)
By Carl C. Cutler. 1961. 592 pages. 63 illustrations, 8 in full color. 26 sets of ships’ lines and sail plans.
Special Price—Queens of the Western Ocean and Greyhounds of the Sea, both volumes as a set ...............................................................$20.00 ($15.00)
The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models.............$3.00 ($2.25)
U. S. Naval Academy Museum, 2nd edition, 1958. 117 pages. Illustrated.
John Paul Jones: Fighter for Freedom and Glory..........................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Lincoln Lorenz, 1943,846 pages. Illustrated.
By Captain D. Harry Hammer, USNR. The story of the building of the great Naval Operating Base at Guam. 1947.109 pages. Illustrated.
Lion Six..........................................................................................$2.50 ($1.88)
A Long Line of Ships......................................................................$5.00 ($3.75)
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. Mare Island Centennial Volume. 1954. 268 pages. Illustrated.
My Life............................................................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Grand Admiral Erich Raeder, German Navy. 1960. 430 pages. Illustrated.
Queens of the Western Ocean.....................................................$12.50 ($9.38)
By Carl C. Cutler. 1961. 672 pages. 69 illustrations. 10 sets of ships' lines and sail plans. Special Price—Queens of the Western Ocean and
Greyhounds of the Sea, both volumes as a set.........................$20.00 ($15.00)
Round-Shot to Rockets..................................................................$3.00 ($2.25)
By Taylor Peck. A history of the Washington Navy Yard and U. S. Naval Gun Factory. 1949. 267 pages. Illustrated
Sailing and Small Craft Down the Ages.........................................$6.50 ($4.88)
By E. L. Bloomster. 1940. 280 pages. 425 silhouette drawings. Trade edition.
(Deluxe autographed edition).....................................................$12.50 ($10.00)
Ships of the United States Navy and Their Sponsors
Vol. IV—1950-1958......................................................................$10.00 ($7.50)
Compiled by Keith Frazier Somerville and Harriotte W. B. Smith. 1959. 291 pages. Illustrated.
Soldiers of the Sea.....................................................................$14.00 ($10.50)
By Colonel Robert D. Heinl, Jr., U. S. Marine Corps. A definitive history of the U. S. Marine Corps, 1775-1962. 1962. 695 pages. 127 photos. 42 maps. Index.
Uniforms of the Sea Services.....................................................$24.50 ($18.38)
By Colonel Robert H. Rankin, U.S.M.C. A comprehensive pictorial history of the uniforms of the U. S. Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard from the Revolution to the present. 1963. 328 pages. Special Collector's copies, signed by the author—$30.00.
The United States Coast Guard, 1790-1915 .................................$5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Stephen H. Evans, U. S. Coast Guard. A definitive history (With a Postscript. 1915-1949). 1949. 228 pages. Illustrated.
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 and
Submarine books (listed above).................................................$17.50 ($13.13)
WORLD WAR II—(OTHER NATIONS)
Der Seekrieg, 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 Pineau, USNR. 1958. 240 pages. 61 photographs. 3 diagrams.
The French Navy in World War II...................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Rear Admiral Paul Auphan, French Navy (Ret.), and Jacques Modral. 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 Pineau 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. A short, up-to-date volume covering all the strategic regions and major powers of the world. This new edition has chapters on the Polar Seas and Africa. Third Edition. 1962. 180 pages. Paperback.
Naval Logistics...............................................................................$5.50 ($4.40)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). Second Edition. 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ............................................................$10.00 ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available. 1962. 14 essays. 3 appendices. 350 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Victory Without War, 1958-1961 ....................................................$2.00 ($1.50)
By George Fielding Eliot. 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, 1963. 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..................................................$3.60 ($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.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road............................................$2.00 ($1.60)
By Lieutenant O. W. Will, III, USN. 1962. 110 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. 5th edition, 1962.282 pages.
The Marine Officer’s Guide............................................................$5.75 ($4.32)
By General G. C. Thomas, USMC (Ret.), Colonel R. D. HeinI, Jr., USMC, and Rear Admiral A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.). 1956. 512 pages. 29 charts. 119 photographs.
The Naval Officer’s Guide..............................................................$6.75 ($5.40)
By Rear Admiral Arthur A. Ageton, USN (Ret.), with Captain William P. Mack, USN. 5th edition, 1960. 649 pages. Illustrated.
Studies in Guerrilla Warfare...........................................................$2.50 ($1.88)
This series of studies, each written by an expert in the field, covers bipartisan war and guerrilla tactics used by friendly as well as communist forces in China, Greece, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Vietnam, and Cuba. Originally published as articles in Proceedings. 1963. 90 pages. Illustrated. Paper bound.
Watch Officer’s Guide....................................................................$2.50 ($2.00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th edition, 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
LEADERSHIP
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. Wolie, 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 Marine Engineering................................................$5.50 ($4.40)
By Professor Robert F. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Fundamentals of Sonar................................................................$10.00 ($8.00)
By Dr. J. Warren Horton. 2nd edition, 1959. 417 pages. 186 figures.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services.$5.00 ($3.75)
By Captain Charles W. Shilling (MC), USN. 1955. 292 pages. Illustrated.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables...........................................$1.65 ($1.32)
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention...............................................$10.00 ($8.00)
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine.............................................................................$ .60 ($ .48)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paper bound.
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.
LANGUAGES
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese..............................................$4.50 ($3.60)
By Associate Professor Guy J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages. Paper bound.
Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960
By Professor Claude P. 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 P. 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 ($2.63)
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............................................................................$6.00 ($4.50)
By Captain Brooks J. Harral, U. S. Navy and Oretha D. Swartz. Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. Second Edition. 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated.
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
Gymnastics and Tumbling……………………………......…………..$4.50 ($3.38)
2nd revised edition, 1959. 414 pages
Hand to Hand Combat………………..……………………………….$4.00 ($3.00)
1943. 228 pages
Baseball.........................................................................................$4.50 ($3.38)
By Robert Spackman, Jr. 1963. 175 pages. Illustrated.
Squash Racquets...........................................................................$1.60 ($1.28)
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Photographs and diagrams. Paper bound.
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 ($3.83)
3rd edition, 1962. 345 pages
Championship Wrestling………………………….……..……………$4.50 ($3.38)
1958. 223 pages
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today............................................................................ $6.00 ($4.50)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 329 pages. 1963. Illustrated.
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.
Your Naval Academy......................................................................$1.00 ($ .75)
By Midshipmen Burton and Hart. A handsome 48-page pictorial presentation of a Midshipman’s life at the Naval Academy. Brief descriptive captions. 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, 1963-1964 .................$1.35, net
Compiled by the Reef Points Staff of the Trident Society. The plebe’s bible, a compact book covering the Naval Academy and the history and traditions of the Naval Service.