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The Craft of Intelligence
By Allen Dulles. New York: Harper and Row, 1963. 277 pages. Illustrated. $4.95.
A Short Course in the Secret War
By Christopher Felix (pseudonym). New York: E. P. Dutton and Company, 1963. 314 pages. $5.00.
Room 3603
By H. Montgomery Hyde. New York: Farrar Straus and Company, 1963. Foreword by Ian Fleming. 257 pages. $4.50.
REVIEWED BY
Robert E. Bublitz, Commander,
U. S. Navy
(Commander Bublitz is on duty in the Foreign Intelligence Division of the Office of Naval Intelligence.)
Allen Dulles did not set out to expose the secret operations of the Central Intelligence Agency to the world at large, nor has he done so. He has, however, set forth the discipline and techniques—what he calls the “trade- craft”—of intelligence with authority and precision.
From his early diplomatic duties in World War I and the Peace Conference, through his spectacularly successful World War II operations in Switzerland, to his 11 postwar years with CIA, Mr. Dulles has demonstrated his appreciation for and his mastery of the relationships of international politics. His credentials need not be questioned.
The book’s early chapters are devoted to the history of intelligence and its evolution in the United States. Basically a re-run of information readily available in most libraries, these chapters are nonetheless well-presented and serve to set the stage for the remainder of the book. Mr. Dulles, incidentally, goes to some length to de-bunk the criticisms that intelligence operations are “foreign” and unsavory to Americans.
The central portion of this book covers the basic intelligence process. Collection, both technological and clandestine, is accorded the place of honor. True the illustrative anecdotes are not likely to startle the experienced follower of intelligence tales, but when Allen Dulles says of Colonel Oleg Penkovsky [the Soviet officer who shook up the Soviet hierarchy by aiding the West] that the evidence at his trial makes it apparent that a combination of Western intelligence services had gained his services, and then adds that “There must have been much more involved . . . Penkovsky had lost faith in the [Soviet] system . . .” we are inclined to accept the fact that something of the story remains to be told.
The chapter on counterintelligence spells out the fundamentals of the most fascinating aspect of intelligence and provides a number of well-chosen illustrations of the techniques. North Pole, the German capture and use of the Allied intelligence network parachuted into Holland, is cited and the discussion of the art of direction finding recounts the German use of this technique to break up the Soviet “Roto Kapelle” of 1939 to 1942. This group gained the Soviets information from the German High Command in Berlin.
The final portion of the book offers Mr. Dulles’ views on the place of intelligence in a free society, the need for the CIA, and the importance of security in today’s world. It is a familiar theme, one which the Director of Central Intelligence has played before in many of his public speeches. It is a well-practiced presentation, for the propaganda pressure of the opposition against our own security and intelligence agencies is unrelenting.
The dust cover of Mr. Felix’s book states, “This authoritative book, written under a pseudonym by a former U. S. government official . . . reveals in full the reasons and methods employed by nations in obtaining intelligence by undercover means.” The statement is misleading only in that it is incomplete. Mr. Felix covers the waterfront of spooky doings, dwelling among other things on covert and clandestine political action, the development and uses of “cover,” counterespionage as contrasted to security, and a host of lesser cloak-and-dagger techniques. His book is as far beyond the rudiments of “intelligence by secret means” as destroyer seamanship is beyond outboard motorboating.
The book is divided into two sections. The first, replete with examples, deals with what the author calls the fundamentals and forms of action. The second section, fundamentals and forms in action, is a description of the author’s activities as an agent in Budapest shortly after World War II. The two-books- in-one approach is unusual, but effective.
From a critical point of view, there are a few points with which the military reader might disagree. The assertion that “military doctrine resorts to an extrapolation of intentions from capabilities, based on an underlying assumption that intent is always hostile ...” might, for instance, provide the basis for a warm debate. Frequently, those with long service in the civilian branches are wont to aim an occasional indirect slap at the “military.” Mr. Felix is no exception, but he criticizes the deficiencies of civilian policy and working-level types more directly.
Mr. Felix’s book lends credence to his claim of “some sixteen years in secret operations.” Like many others who write on covert and clandestine operations, he tends to lapse into trade jargon, apparently assuming that if he defines a term once, he may use it freely thereafter. The reader may find this a bit confusing, but even those with long experience in the field find precise definitions of intelligence
terminology quite susceptible to misunderstanding. The definitions given are reasonably clear and manageable, though some are open to debate.
It seems unlikely that this book will reveal heretofore secret principles to the opposition. The author states in the introduction, “The explanation of secret operations is complicated by the fact that nothing can be said which will give the enemy some information or advantage he does not already possess,” and he carefully avoids any discussion of the sensitive specifics of the covert trade. The heart of the book is the discussion of the universal principles of secret operations, principles certainly known to the Soviets, but a subject few Americans are able to discuss without their ignorance becoming all too apparent.
A Short Course in the Secret War hardly approaches James Bond in the exotic world of the unacknowledged war, but for the individual who wonders why history records so many fortuitous failures and timely triumphs, it offers major enlightenment. For the Ian Fleming fan, it offers mild adventure combined with a reasonably painless education in the secret operations field. One need only to tick off the names—Wennerstrom, Philby, Lonsdale, Sorge, Abel and the Krogers, Martin, Mitchell, Blake, Powers, Gehlen (Serov and John), Artime, Fuchs, Drummond, and Hamilton—and ask the average naval officer if he knows each of them, and how (or if) their actions affected the United States or the Navy. One might also ask how they did what they did, and how they came to be doing it. A Short Course in the Secret War will not completely answer the questions posed above, but it provides an outstanding introduction to the shadowy world in which they move.
Allen Dulles tells of the policy-level reasons for an intelligence organization in today’s world; Christopher Felix offers the field operatives’ view of that policy in action. Each book is, in its way, an exercise in discretion. H. Montgomery Hyde presents a book which— despite a typically understated British approach—is nothing if not indiscreet. His tale of the political maneuverings, illegal actions, and downright immoral approach to winning a war by Sir William Stephenson and his British Security Co-ordination is a shocker.
Mr. Hyde’s style is restrained and unspectacular. In fact, some portions of the book are so quietly done that it is only by re-reading the passages that one realizes certain episodes are on a par with President Eisenhower’s bland statement that U-2s had been flying over the U.S.S.R. for some four years before Gary Powers was shot down. If there is a single major criticism of this book it is that the author’s style is so subdued that it requires a great amount of self-discipline to make one’s way through Mr. Hyde’s labyrinth.
Ian Fleming (who was a member of the B.S.C.) introduces the book as “the first book . . . about the British secret agent whose publication has received official blessing ...” and J. Edgar Hoover has said of Sir William Stephenson, “I am sure that your contribution will be among the foremost in having brought victory finally to the United Nations’ cause.” Stephenson arrived in New York in 1940, charged with “collecting information on enemy activities aimed against the British war effort and planning appropriate countermeasures . .. help Britain .. . with essential supplies, and . . . promote a climate of public opinion favorable to American intervention ...” Between these varied missions, Sir William, a Canadian businessman in private life, was also able to provide Major General William “Wild Bill” Donovan with the guidance and support needed to get the O.S.S. operating.
The closeness of the ties between the O.S.S. and British intelligence is a matter of public statement, but the collaboration has not been documented before in this degree of detail. B.S.C. agents intercepted and decoded the radio signals of enemy submarines; caused the arrest and trial of a number of key German agents in the United States; succeeded in exposing German efforts to conceal ownership of their subsidiaries in the U. S.; thwarted Nazi efforts in Latin America; and played a significant part in the events following Gouzenko’s defection in Ottawa. Mr. Hyde amply illustrates the B.S.C. use of field techniques— forgery, censorship, seduction, theft, influence in high places, propaganda, agent recruitment, communications intelligence, blackmail, violation of diplomatic pouches, incitement to sabotage, and the planting of deceptive materials. The individual incidents Mr. Hyde cites have, for the most part, appeared in
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print before but without these detailed chronologies and methodical descriptions.
Sir William’s success in discrediting Axis representatives in the United States and Latin America, stealing their codes and plans, and exposing their agents is deserving of the high praise he received. Sir William was known to his intimates as “the Quiet Canadian,” and Room 3603 was published under that title in Great Britain. Mr. Hyde tells the story of B.S.C. quietly, but for the serious student who views intelligence as either a trade or a tool this book should be high on the list of required reading.
These three books provide a fine introduction to intelligence for the uninitiated, and an exciting review for the old hands. The Craft of Intelligence reviews the broad picture from the national standpoint; A Short Course in the Secret War looks at the scenery from the case officer’s view and provides a fairly detailed narrative of a fresh—and interesting—case; and Room 3603 covers the gamut of intelligence operations, with heavy emphasis on the dirty tricks department. For a fictional frosting on this package, finish the set with John Le Carre’s The Spy Who Came in from the Cold (Coward McCann, $4.50) and you will have been exposed to far more accurate and informative data on intelligence, its significance, and its techniques than has ever been readily available before.
Prelude to Pearl Harbor
By Gerald E. Wheeler. Columbia, Mo.: University of Missouri Press, 1963. 212 pages. $5.95.
The Armed Forces in Peacetime
By Robin Higham. Hamden, Conn.: Archon Books, 1962. 332 pages. $10.75.
REVIEWED BY
John D. Hayes, Rear Admiral,
U. S. Navy (Retired)
{Admiral Hayes has been researching naval and military history since his retirement in 1954. He is now editing the Naval Institute's Naval Letter Series.)
These two books deal with the armed services in peacetime, a critical problem always, not only for statesmen and legislators but for the military profession itself. More specifically, both volumes deal with the problem in the
Anglo-Saxon democracies in one of the most pregnant periods in their history, the long armistice between World Wars I and II.
In Prelude to Pearl Harbor, Professor Wheeler, formerly on the faculty of the U. S. Naval Academy and a retired commander in the Naval Reserve, traces the roots of the Pacific struggle in World War II to the 1921 Washington Disarmament Conference. The Japanese claimed there that they needed 70 per cent of U. S. naval strength to assure their national position. Because of British fears for their own and Dutch possessions in the Far East, however, a 5:5:3 ratio was forced on Japan by threat of an arms race. Even this was obtained only by U. S. and British acceptance of a status quo for their bases north of Singapore and west of Hawaii. Future events disclosed that British fears were justified, but the Washington treaty both offended the Japanese and made it impossible for the United States to defend the Philippines or give any strength to its Open Door policy in China.
Even before the 1921 conference, senior U. S. naval officers recognized Japan as a future enemy, not because war was imminent or because they wanted war, but because it is the duty of military people to so regard another nation with whom their country’s foreign relations are unstable. The job of the diplomats is to keep these relations stable, for when they do not, war comes. Professor Wheeler enables us to judge how good a job was done by both.
The United States in 1921 abdicated as the world’s first naval power. A few years later, its political leaders were advocating “abolishing war as an instrument of policy” at a time when such idealism with its bland disregard of the lessons of history was creating problems which in the end could only be resolved by arms. Naval leaders of this period did their best to maintain a fleet that was strong, ready, and alert. They had to discharge this duty in the face of unsympathetic political leaders and an almost hostile public, without hope of glory or even of honor. The American people finally did arouse themselves, but not fast enough to prevent the humiliation at Pearl Harbor on 7 December 1941.
Armed Services in Peacetime was first published in Great Britain. Professor Higham served in the R.A.F. during World War II and now teaches in this country. His work has more relevancy for today’s situation, not only for the Navy but for all armed services, because British history has a way of being precursor to that of the United States. From 1918 to almost the beginning of World War II, the three armed services in Britain engaged in an internecine struggle for their share of an all- too-small defense budget. No similar struggle went on between the Army and Navy in the United States during this period, nor in Great Britain between the then two military services in the period before World War I. Political scientists would do well to study whether the cause of interservice rivalry is the impact of the airplane on all forms of warfare, the claims of the new and dominant but untried air service, or just the nature of any three-way fight.
The U. S. Navy during the period between the great wars had some strong men to prepare it for its test in World War II—Hilary P. Jones, William V. Pratt, and Joseph M. Reeves, to name but three. Great Britain was not so blessed. In that critical period, only one military man towers above the rest, Hugh Trenchard, virtual founder of the R.A.F., its head for 11 years, and creator of the concept of strategic bombing. (It was not, as some Air Force officers and American military scholars still apparently believe, Italy’s Giulio Dou- het.) It will require a longer view of history than is now possible to determine the impact of this strong man on the future of Great Britain. Among the naval officers of that period, only tragic Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond stands out, a Mahan out of his time, who sorrowfully saw the downward path that Britain had chosen. The Army had J. F. C. Fuller and the lesser B. H. Liddell Hart, but both were too impatient with their “stupid” contemporaries for their own and their country’s good.
The major blame for the sad period must be laid at the door of 10 Downing Street, occupied from 1923 to 1937 by “vain but decisionless” Ramsey McDonald and “complacent” Stanley Baldwin. Winston Churchill does not come off scot-free, for in the only office he held during the period, Chancellor of the Exchequer from 1924 to 1929, he cut cruiser construction and delayed the build up of the Home Defense Air Force.
The real culprits were not men but abstractions—the Ten-Year Rule and Treasury Control. The Ten-Year Rule, adopted in 1923 as a guide in planning for national security after World War I, was an assumption that Great Britain would not have a war for ten years. However, it was extended from year to year and thus the time when Britain would be fully prepared would never come.
With regard to Treasury Control, Captain Russell Grenfell, Royal Navy, in his book Main Fleet to Singapore (1952) does a much better job of discussing this influence than
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does Professor Higham. Captain Grenfell traced the decline of British sea power, and with it British greatness, to the governmental system in his country whereby Treasury officials control defense spending without responsibility for the power they wield. Captain Grenfell wrote: “There is much to be said for the American system whereby the fighting services deal directly with the financially responsible body in the country, namely Congress. Admirals and Generals argue their cases before Congressional committees.” Whether or not this was still the case when Captain Grenfell wrote it, we know that it is not so today. God forbid that American history will once more follow in the steps of British history.
Matthew Fontaine Maury:
Scientist of the Sea
By Frances Leigh Williams. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1963. 720 pages. Illustrated. $10.00.
REVIEWED BY .
E. John Long, Captain,
U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired)
(Captain Long is a contributing editor oj Sea Frontiers and an associate editor oj Ocean Science News. He is also editor oj the jorthcoming Naval Institute book Ocean Sciences.)
At long last we have a definitive, documented book on Matthew Fontaine Maury. That it was not an easy task would be obvious to anyone who knows even a little of the complex nature and tenacious driving force of the man. For Maury, who began his Navy career as a midshipman at sea before there was a Naval Academy, overcame a crippling accident to blossom forth as the Navy’s first great genius ashore and the Navy’s most brilliant early scientist. When he no longer could take a command afloat, Maury launched the Naval Observatory and became the Navy’s first hydrographer. He mastered ocean theory so well from his desk that he became known, even to his begrudging academic enemies, as the “Pathfinder of the Seas.”
Webster’s dictionary lists Maury: “American naval officer and oceanographer, 1806— 73.” All three facts are significant, but the last two especially. For at that time the word oceanography was not known, as such, but Was part of the burgeoning science born in the early and mid-19th century. In Maury, the Navy found a vigorous renascent mariner, a technician, a scholar, and a forceful champion of causes, whether won or lost.
Some of Maury’s critics claim he was troublesome and lacking in discretion when a little more tact would have won in the end. Here, however, Maury was largely a victim of his times. “Science” had not yet begun to attract industry, because it did not then promise much financial profit. However, many thoughtful men in government, including Maury, realized its value. A small group in the Congress was sympathetic, to a degree, but no one knew where and how far science would go and where it should be placed in the government. It was a big order—who should study the stars, the weather, the sea, and the hundreds of other such specialities? The few experts could only suggest that science must not be tucked away under such huge departments as State, Treasury, Agriculture, or the military, although in the end “science” was developed by offices in most of the departments and only a few independent agencies,
During the early years a dog-eat-dog squabble ensued as to which agencies were to be set up and what persons should run them. Maury was in the thick of it as the first superintendent of the Naval Observatory, with strategic roles in astronomy (needed in all navigation) and in hydrography.
While the scientific world remembers with great admiration Maury’s unique method of charting the winds and currents of the sea through analysis of weather information in hundreds of logbooks, more of his devotees may eventually recognize him primarily for a book—The Physical Geography of the Sea. This brilliant volume is not only one of the important treatises on science, but, almost unheard of in Maury’s times, it is written so that any intelligent reader can understand it.
Frances Leigh Williams who was a former literary assistant to Douglas Southall Freeman, does an excellent job of putting the many facts of Maury’s life into perspective, as she tells the story of his service to the United States, then of his service to the Confederacy, where Maury turned his attention to ordnance, developing contact mines and controlled mine fields. She describes his relations with the Mexican Emperor Maximilian, and, finally, his return to teach geography and physics at the Virginia Military Institute from 1868 until his death in 1873.
The Public Order of the Oceans
By Myres S. McDougal and William T. Burke. New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1962.1,226 pages. $15.00.
REVIEWED BY
Emory C. Smith, Captain, U. S. Navy
(Captain Smith is Assistant Chief of Staff for Administration and District Legal Officer, Headquarters, Potomac River Naval Command. He was formerly Director of the International Law Division in the Office of the Judge Advocate General of the Navy.)
The Public Order of the Oceans is a companion book to Studies in World Public Order by Myres S. McDougal, and Law and Minimum World Public Order by Messrs. McDougal and Florentino Feliciano.* This latest work is indeed the most comprehensive ever published on the law of the sea.
* Reviewed in the March 1963 U. S. Naval Institute Proceedings, pp. 116-118.
It is safe to opine that there has been a greater development in the law of the sea and its scope since 1945 than in the three hundred previous years. For this and other reasons this latest study by Messrs. McDougal and Burke is overdue.
Early in the book, the authors point out some of the more important recent developments which tend to unsettle the law of the sea as it has been long understood. Among these developments are the expansion of internal waters of coastal states, claims to the resources of the sea in the contiguous zones, and the challenge to the completely exclusive competence of states to confer their national character upon ships.
Perhaps one of the great services of these authors is their effort to demonstrate how the community interest of the nation-states may be affected by these current proposals under probable future conditions.
With regard to the breadth of the territorial sea, the authors accuse the U. N. International Law Commission of making recommendations which were interpreted as an invitation to a full reconsideration of the policy of a narrow belt in this time of resurgent national egoism. The writers suggest that after a careful calculation of relevant factors, world-community policy should continue to be heavily weighted in terms of accepting only a very narrow width of waters as territorial seas.
The second chapter treats the claims to authority over internal waters. The authors urge that provision of open access to the oceans, which requires a relatively free use of ports, remains in the interest of all states as facilitating an international division of labor, encouraging specialization, and promoting the most efficient and the most productive use of resources.
In their discussion of claims to authority over the territorial sea, the authors point out the practical inconveniences to foreign warships desiring to enter the territorial waters of another state if it is necessary that advance permission for such entry be obtained. They feel that it would be just as feasible to limit coastal competence to the authority necessary to protect the coastal state during the temporary periods in which outside threats are realistically perceived. The writers argue that
in this suggestion the degree of anticipated threat created by the presence of warships could be considered to justify passage as noninnocent and subject to exclusion.
The fourth chapter treats the delimitation of the boundary between internal waters and the territorial sea. This has become one of the most controversial of subjects bearing on the law of the sea. The lack of agreement as to the proper baselines to be used in the delimitation of the internal waters and territorial sea has only led to confusion and uncertainty. The authors exhaustively discuss the factors involved, such as historic use and coasts with special configurations, as having set the pattern of controversy.
The fifth and sixth chapters discuss the controversy regarding the width of the territorial sea and contiguous zones. Because of the great importance of this problem to the whole public order of the oceans, the authors have examined the general context which establishes the major features and importance of the problem. This is followed by a comprehensive, detailed scrutiny of the special factors which ought to be taken into account by decision-makers. The authors have produced a masterpiece of painstaking, exhaustive discussion that has no equal in contemporary literature on this subject.
Perhaps the most interesting part of Chapter Seven relates to the uses of the oceans for naval target practice and the testing of missiles. The use of the oceans for the testing of nuclear weapons is likewise discussed in considerable detail, and the well-established rule of reasonableness is thoroughly argued as an answer to critics of such testing.
A general format found not only in Chapter Seven but throughout the work sets forth the factual background of a particular problem of sea law, followed by the related trends in decisions, and concluded with an appraisal and recommendations. Such an arrangement commends itself to the decision maker, as it facilitates his work.
The discussion of the right of visit and search and hot pursuit by both surface vessels and aircraft is especially thorough.
The final chapter concerns itself with the maintenance of public order on the oceans and the nationality of ships. According to the authors, the whole public order system depends upon the procedural principles by which states can determine the national character of a ship. With this beginning they take up what may well be the most fascinating discussion in the entire book. They show the dangerous effects in recent years involved in according a state the competence to deny another’s ascription of nationality.
Most helpful are the appendixes. These include the texts of the four 1958 Law of the Sea Conventions. In addition, a table of cases, name index, and subject index enhance the usefulness of this book to the decision-maker, scholar, diplomat, teacher, and naval officer.
All in all, the value of this brilliant work may well lie in its graphic and informed manner of setting forth the uncertain state of the law of the sea. It is true that the 1958 Conventions clarified the law in some respects, but in net effect some of the provisions seem destined to foment more problems rather than lessen them. The failure of the Conventions to agree on a territorial limit, even though the three-mile limit had been acceptable and workable for generations, is but a further example of the overtaking cloudiness. This work likewise is striking testimony that sea power is not altogether naval power or naval weaponry, but something far more—a fact which seems altogether too little appreciated by many decision-makers. As far as our nation should be concerned, this book emphatically discloses the imperative need for a comprehensive, delineated seapower policy along with the goals such a policy should seek to achieve. The petty reason for the cancellation of the sailing of the liner United States in 1963, the jeopardy of the wheat deal with Soviet Russia due to exorbitant American cargo rates, the steady decline of the American shipbuilding industry, and the increased reliance on foreign flag vessels by U. S. commerce are but a few examples of the grave perils facing this country for lack of a comprehensive, clearly defined seapower policy.
★
Professional Heading
By Robert M. Langdon
• Among the more significant literary contributions of the moment is a thorough and reliable book on Modern China, veteran U. S. Foreign Service Officer, O. Edmund Clubb’s Twentieth Century China (Columbia University Press, $7.95). Following a brief introductory background to the subject, Clubb traces the political history of China from the 1911 Revolution to the current Communist era, paying particular attention to the roles of the United States and the other major powers (especially Japan and Russia) in influencing China’s modern development. An excellent bibliography is included.
• Three books are particularly useful in understanding the background of current American policy toward Southeast Asia. University of Michigan political scientist Russell H. Fifield has authored two, one recently and the other a few years ago. The latest work, Southeast Asia in United States Policy (Praeger, $6.50), traces America’s concern with that strategic region from 1945 into 1963. Fifield analyzes not only the dimensions of the current challenge and the status of America’s military posture in that region, but also the shortcomings of American policies toward the area. The author charts a broad course for future policy makers to consider. Fifield’s older work, The Diplomacy of Southeast Asia, 1945-1958 (Harper, 1958, $7.50), is the leading work in its field. A much briefer monograph on the same general subject is Oliver E. Clubb’s The United States and the Sino-Soviet Bloc in Southeast Asia (Brookings Institution, 1962, $2.00 in paper) which is an excellent supplement to Fifield’s newer book.
• An excellent addition to the biographical accounts of or by World War II’s top military leaders is Once a Marine (W. W. Norton & Co., $6.95), which is Marine General A. A. Vande- grift’s memoirs as told to Robert B. Asprey. Vandegrift is well-known as a former Commandant and as the top Marine in the Guadalcanal Operation of 1942. This volume presents much information that has hitherto been unavailable for the whole Marine story, from Haiti, China, and Nicaragua to the Pacific War and the Commandant’s role—told here in a refreshingly frank manner.
• Britisher Donald Macintyre (author of Jutland, Narvik, U-Boat Killer, Thunder of the Guns, etc.) has painted a broad picture of naval aviation in his Wings of Neptune (Norton, $4.50). His first 40 pages deal with the World War I origins of naval aviation; the remainder present a rather light, but interesting and useful coverage of the naval aviation side of World War II.
• An unusually skillful assimilation of a vast amount of written material is A. Russell Buchanan’s two-volume The United States and World War II (Harper, $6.00 per volume; $2.25 each in paper). The volumes pull together, in some detail, the major diplomatic and military happenings and their causes, circumstances, effects, and personalities linked therewith. The author has attempted to present nothing more than a straightforward narrative, and in this objective he has been most successful. Buchanan includes a most thorough bibliography for the reader who would seek more detail on any of the wartime events described.
• Among significant reprints are: Arthur Marder’s The Anatomy of British Sea Power, 1880-1905 (Archon Books, Hamden, Conn., $12.00), a veritable classic by that American historian who is recognized as a major authority on the Royal Navy’s “Jackie” Fisher and his naval era, and Captain S. W. Roskill’s The Strategy of Sea Power (Archon, $5.00), a masterful analysis of the development and application of sea power in today’s world.
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The Henry Huddleston Rogers Collection of Ship Models...................................................... $3.00 ($2.25)
U. S. Naval Academy Museum, 2nd Ed., 1958. 117 pages. Illustrated.
John Paul Jones: Fighter for Freedom and Glory..................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Lincoln Lorenz. 1943. 846 pages. Illustrated.
Lion Six.................................................................................................................................. $2.50 ($1.88)
By Captain D. Harry Hammer, USNR. The story of the building of the great Naval Operating Base at Guam. 1947. 109 pages. Illustrated.
By Lieutenant Commander Arnold S. Lott, USN. Mare Island Centennial Volume. 1954. 268 pages. Illustrated.
A Long Line of Ships.............................................................................................................. $5.00 ($3.75)
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement............................................................. $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Commander Walter C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paperbound.
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. 3rd Ed., 1962. 180 pages. Paperbound.
Naval Logistics............................................................................................................................................. $5.50 ($4.40)
By Vice Admiral George C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). 2nd Ed., 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 ............................................................................................................................ $10.00 ($8.00)
The most comprehensive volume on world seapower available. 14 essays. 3 appendixes. 1962. 369 pages. Illustrated-. Maps.
Naval Review, 1964 .................................................................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
This is the second annual publication which examines the problems and developments in the Navy and other sea-going Services. 1963. 396 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 explanatory text. 2nd Ed., 1955. 224 pages.
Naval Shiphandling..................................................................................................... $5.00 ($4.00)
By Captain R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 529 pages. Illustrated.
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 Ed., 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, USCG. 3rd Ed., 1954. 536 pages. Illustrated.
Simplified Rules of the Nautical Road.......................................................................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
By Lieutenant O. W. Will, III, USN. 1962. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy........................................................................................................... $1.95 ($1.56)
Revised by Captain John V. Noel, Jr., USN, and Master Chief Journalist William J. Miller, USN (Ret.). 17th Ed., 1964. 684 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual................................................................................................................... $4.00 ($3.20)
By Captain W. C. Hogan, USCG. Revised by Lt. Cdr. M. M. Dickinson, USCGR, assisted by Loran W. Behrens, BMC, USN-FR. 3rd Ed., 1958. 819 pages. Illustrated.
Division Officer’s Guide............................................................................................................... $2 25 ($180)
By Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 5th Ed., 1962. 282 pages.
The Naval Aviator’s Guide........................................................................................................................... $5.50 ($4.40)
By Captain Malcolm W. Cagle, USN. This is a complete guide for the naval aviator from pre-flight to senior pilot. Illustrations are complete and technically correct in each detail. 1963. 305 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, Creece, Yugoslavia, Malaya, Vietnam, and Cuba. Originally published as articles in Proceedings. 1963. 89 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Watch Officer’s Guide.................................................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Revised by Captain J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th Ed., 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, R. Adm. Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. Gregory J. Mann. 1959. 301 pages.
Naval Leadership, 1st edition........................................................................................................................ $3.00 ($2.60)
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. Paperbound.
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 Ed., 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 Ed., 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 Ed., 1959. 417 pages. Illustrated.
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services............................................. $5.00. ($3.75)
By Captain Charles W. Shilling (MC), USN. 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......................................................................................................... $ .75 ($ .60)
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication and division. 1959. 27 pages. Paperbound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial.......................................................................................... $ .50 ($ .40)
By Brigadier General James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paperbound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers................................................................................ $6.00 ($4.50)
By Commander Burdick H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson. 2nd Ed., 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. Revised by Lieutenant Commander John W. Dcs Jardin. USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 94 pages.
LANGUAGES
Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese..................................................................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
By Associate Professor Guy J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy. 1957. 299 pages. Paperbound.
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Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960 By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. One—109 pages. Paperbound............................................................................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paperbound.............................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
By Professor Claude P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed., 1954. 140 pages.
Russian Supplement to Naval Phraseology..................................................................... $4.00 ($3.20)
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 Ed., 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea.................................................................................................................................................. $3.50.. ($2.63)
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, USN.
The Sailor’s Wife ........................................................................................................................................... $1.50.. ($1.13)
By Lucy Wright. 1962. 112 pages .Illustrated. Paperbound.
Service Etiquette............................................................................................................................................. $6.00.. ($4.50)
By Captain Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Orctha D. Swartz. Revised by Orthea D. Swartz. 2nd Ed., 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard.......................................................................................................................................... $4.00 (3.00)
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 5th Ed., 1960. 273 pages.
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1943. 228 pages.
Boxing.................................... Revised, 1950. 288 pages. | $4.00 | ($3.00) | How to Survive on Land and Sea........................... | $4.00 |
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Squash Racquets........................................................................................................................................... $1.60
By Commander Arthur M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today.......................................................................................................................................... $6.00 ($4.50)
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1963. 329 pages. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs............................................................................................................................ $3.00 ($2.25)
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. Paperbound.
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.