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The Macmillan Book Of Boating
By William N. Wallace. New York: Macmillan, 1964. 252 pages. Illustrated. $14.95.
REVIEWED BY
Howard I. Chapelle
{Mr. Chapelle is the author of several books on ships including The History of the American Sailing Navy and The History of American Sailing Ships. Since 1957 he has been curator of the Division of Transportation of the Smithsonian Institution.)
“The goal of this book is to show how Americans have used their boats for pleasure.” This sentence in Mr. Wallace’s introduction to his book is the best description of The Macmillan Book Of Boating. Profusely illustrated with many magnificent photographs, some in color, and reproductions of old yachting prints and paintings, this book is one of the richest of the yachting picture books. The text, though limited, is a running history of American yachting, with the emphasis on racing history, power, sail, and steam.
Mr. Wallace is a journalist-yachtsman, and his book shows the uninhibited and free- ranging style of his profession. It is pleasant to have a book in which elementary nautical language is handled with only a few errors. Important yachting areas receive attention, and most of them do not suffer in the process, except the Chesapeake Bay area. The “sporting element” that has enlivened yachting through the backing of one’s choice of the probable winner of a race with cash is well presented. Apparently this is an area that staid yachting historians do not particularly like to dwell upon.
I wish that some who tell us that a gaff mainsail cannot be cut so that it stands well on the wind would take a long look at some of the photographs in this book, such as those of the flat scow Independence and the schooner Atlantic. In fact, one can see poorer sails today than those shown on the old sandbagger E. Z- Sloat of 1896. A picture book of this caliber might be useful as an occasional reference in a naval architect’s office, to remind him that we should not get fat-headed about our “scientific knowledge.”
The Reliance, 143 feet long, was the largest single-masted yacht ever built. The 4-time winner of the America’s Cup series was launched in 1903. Here, she goes down a marine railway with her crew on deck. There are almost 250 illustrations in The Macmillan Book Of Boating, many in color.
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The only criticisms I have are that the old America is made to look bad in the book, for none of the pictures of her do justice to
George Steers’ fine schooner. Colonial yachting is underestimated, as is usual with yacht- lng historians. Colonial yachts, which could double in brass as either a mail packet or express freighter, were common in the 18th century, as were the designed-by-model produced yachts which once in a while clobbered the work of the scientific designers. The record for the America’s Cup course off New York Was held by the modeled centerboard schooner Columbia until the Ranger’s time.
Yachting anecdotes are used liberally in the book to illustrate incidents relating to designers, designs, owners, crews, racing, accidents, and even cabin furniture—a most effective presentation.
Mr. Wallace’s story of the capsizing of the hig centerboard schooner Mohawk needs a Postscript: She not only became the Coast and Geodetic Survey schooner Eagre, but also carried her huge yacht rig for some years in that rough service. There is a tradition that she had her rig cut down immediately, but this is not true.
This very well-written and well-produced book will be a useful addition to a yachts- rnan’s library both afloat and ashore.
The Invisible Government
By David Wise and Thomas B. Ross. New York: Random House, 1964. 375 pages. $5.95.
REVIEWED BY
Commander Robert E. Bublitz,
U. S. Navy
{Commander Bublitz is an intelligence specialist and is now attending a German language course at the Defense Language Institute. Preciously, he was assigned to the Foreign Intelligence Division of the Office of Naval Intelligence.)
As strategy in the megaton age has been called the art of meditating on the unthinkable, so might The Invisible Government be described as an exercise in discussing the unspeakable. Both catch phrases have the attractions of simplicity and the defects of oversimplification.
The publisher states this book is “ . . . startling ... in detail and for the first time . . . nightmarish . . . explosive . . . disturbing. ...” It is not all that exciting, but it will provide several hours of above average reading for those who, lacking the need to know, would like to know anyway. The Invisible Government is not the full and authentic account of U. S. intelligence and espionage it purports to be, but that is a minor blemish for the main theme is what the authors call “special operations.”
Messrs. Wise and Ross made their mark as Washington demonologists with the publication of their book The U-2 Ajfair (Random House, 1962) which primarily took the Central Intelligence Agency to task for a narrow segment of that agency’s activities. This time, the authors have given their talents much wider range, hauling the entire intelligence community before the bar for all its activities. The CIA remains the senior demon, with the military intelligence organizations mentioned only superficially, and somewhat inaccurately.
The authors are uncertain of how to cope with the Defense Intelligence Agency and resolve the dilemma by asserting that it is indeed important and leaving it severely alone after a short description. In contrast, the Department of State’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research is briefly and neatly described. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is noted as a part of the intelligence community, and a spy-catching tale is related. Through use of quotations, the authors indicate that the National Security Agency performs delicate and sensitive tasks. Not surprisingly, the agency’s security problems receive prominent mention. Although the authors do not say so, the organizational and functional description of the National Security Agency and some data on its operations are taken in most part from the press conference held in Moscow by
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former agency employees, William H. Martin and Bernon F. Mitchell.
The authors have done an excellent repor- torial job, assembling many bits and pieces to form an illuminating book. Inferences drawn from fragmentary evidence and extensive use of the passive voice leave the reader aware of the authors’ views without being precisely sure of where he encountered them. The book is well-footnoted, the index is superb, and the style is light and readable.
Nearly a quarter of the book is devoted to the abortive Bay of Pigs invasion. This version adds considerable detail to previously published accounts. For the intelligence buff, there is a fascinating section on the cover organizations allegedly employed by the CIA. Some sarcasm and a bit of journalistic pathos creep into the tale, but it reads well.
Korea with the Communist Chinese coming across the Yalu, airdrops into China, the overthrow of Mohammed Mossadegh in Iran, a quick look at the U-2, Costa Rica, Guata- mala, and an interesting run-down on how the Gehlen organization metamorphosed into
West Germany’s Federal Intelligence Service are presented in the book and described as CIA operations. Incidentally, the item on Reinhard Gehlen draws attention to one of the more significant espionage cases of the past few years, as well as touching lightly on that curious man Otto John, West Germany’s counter-intelligence chief who disappeared into East Berlin in 1954 and returned to the West in 1955.
Alleged CIA activities in Laos, Indonesia, Burma, and Vietnam afford the authors ample opportunity to demonstrate their reportorial and research abilities. The segment on the inner workings of CIA is lively, with varied and sprightly cloak and dagger tales on “cover,” bugging, CIA policy regarding the use of sex, and agency activities within the United States.
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The authors raise many questions, including that nagging one of who bears the responsibility for statements made through “deniable” radio broadcasts. Another which will fascinate the political scientist is the effect the planning for the Bay of Pigs opera-
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tion had on the 1960 campaign speeches of Senator John F. Kennedy and Vice President Richard M. Nixon.
The authors draw a number of conclusions and offer several recommendations upholding the need for an apparatus to carry on the quiet side of the Cold War while fretting that the existing mechanism has numerous defects. They acknowledge that secret operations are difficult to control and keep secure, but suggest that control should be broadened and more people informed of operations. Perhaps they expect too much in trying to find a neat mechanism when so many conflicting considerations are involved.
The Invisible Government is an interesting account of what the authors believe to be U. S. actions in the secret operations field. Quite in contrast to the “jolly-good-bunch-we-pulled- some-grand-capers-together” theme of most mtelligence and operational reminiscences, The Invisible Government approaches the business with an attitude varying from the rather skeptical to the downright hostile. This book deserves to be read thoughtfully.
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Clear for Action
By Foster Hailey and Milton Lancelot. New York: Duell, Sloan and Pearce, 1964. 320 pages. Illustrated. $12.50.
REVIEWED BY
Captain Ellery H. Clark, Jr.,
U. S. Naval Reserve
{Captain Clark, a former assistant editor of the Proceedings, is a civilian professor in the English, History, and Government Department of the Naval Academy.)
Clear for Action definitely must be considered and evaluated in part as a sequel, although perhaps somewhat coincidental, to the Picture History of the U. S. Navy by Theodore Ros- coe and Fred Freeman, which covered the period 1776 to 1897.* With the exception of coverage for the year 1897, these two books provide interesting and representative American naval photographic and other illustrative coverage. Clear for Action does widen its lenses to include such foreign navies as those of Spain in 1898, Japan and Russia in 19041905, Great Britain and Germany in both World Wars, and France, Italy, and Japan in World War II.
Whereas the authors of the earlier Picture History of the U. S. Navy offered a plethora of photographs, sketches, diagrams, and other illustrations, a relatively brief text, and presented their material in a period-pattern sequence of introduction, leaders, men, warships, weapons, and finally battles and campaigns, authors Hailey and Lancelot have a different approach to their subject. These * Theodore Roscoe and Fred Freeman, Picture History of the U. S. Navy (New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 1956).
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authors, for better or worse, have decided to stress textual content, especially on battles, more than illustrative material. If the main purpose of this book is to present the casual lay reader a combined textual and photographic naval history, the result is reasonably successful. If the objective is to attract and inform the “professional” naval reader, then it falls somewhat short of target. For example, the volume clearly is inferior in textual content to Sea Power.* Although the narrative is interesting, strategic planning and implementation are not well covered, the rationale of strategic and tactical command decisions generally are omitted, and controversial elements of such battles as Jutland and Leyte Gulf are left to the “experts.” One of the volume’s major weaknesses is lack of a detailed bibliography; another is the omission of individual illustration credits, irritating to those who like the niceties of scholarly authorship.
* E. B. Potter and Chester W. Nimitz (ed.), Sea Power (Englewood Cliffs, N. J.: Prentice-Hall, 1960).
Only a single page of brief and frequently general acknowledgments is provided in the book.
About one-half of the volume is devoted to the 1898 to 1939 period; the remainder to World War II. There is a fine blend of judiciously selected photographs, both new and old, and helpful diagrams and maps. In the text, campaigns tend to be obscured by battles; the title of the volume seems to be indicative of this battle stress. Perhaps also indicative are references to Fleet Admiral Chester W- Nimitz on six pages, whereas Fleet Admiral William F. Halsey appears on 25 pages. More and better coverage, both textual and photographic, could have been provided on U. S- submarine operations in the Pacific. References on this subject total just four pages, whereas the 1916 Battle of Jutland occupies 16 pages. Ten pages are devoted to the Battle of Santiago, whereas World War II’s Battle of the Atlantic receives rather incomplete and superficial treatment in nine. Naval aspects of the Sicilian and Italian campaigns receive less than a page. One may scan the index in vain for reference to such outstanding naval leaders as Germany’s Admirals Alfred von Tirpitz, Erich Raeder, and Karl Doenitz, and Britain’s Admiral Sir John Fisher and explorer Robert F. Scott.
Despite the above criticisms of this book, authors Hailey and Lancelot deserve credit for further experimentation and some progress in using their own and their publisher’s judgment on the yet unresolved problem of selecting a “proper ratio” between naval illustrations and textual commentary in a book labeled “photographic.” Perhaps a valuable suggestion to the authors and publishers involved in producing these histories would be to poll a number of their readers to see if there
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Clear for Action is a truly beautiful production, superior in quality of paper, print, illustration reproduction, and also commendable for its effective mid-page pagination. This volume will grace many an elegant table, and >t will command deserved attention.
No reader interested in naval history should fail to examine this volume. The “popular- nation” of naval history is served by the growing stream of photographic books, of which Clear for Action is a prominent member, even if there are some justified scholarly doubts and reservations about the merits and methods of this “popularization.”
The War for America 1775-1783
By Piers Mackesy. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1964, 565 pages. Illustrated. $10.00.
Reviewed by
Captain Paolo E. Coletta,
U. S. Naval Reserve
(Captain Coletta is a civilian professor in the English, History, and Government Department of the Naval Academy and currently teaches a course in counter-insurgency at the Naval Reserve Officer's School in Washington, D. C.)
Some time ago, this reviewer adopted the by no means novel method of assigning readings in British as well as in American history in a course in American Colonial History. He thereby shocked some students into learning that in addition to the “patriotic” American side there was another side to the American Revolution. By studying the war itself in general histories and in biographies of its participants, the students came to see that the war’s military and political aspects were only a part of the story. No war can be understood without knowledge of the whole national life of the opponents, and military forces are but projections of the societies which provide and nurture them. Mr. Mackesy writes with a clear comprehension of this maxim.
The War for America 1775-1783 furnishes a powerful antidote for provincialism in American writings on the Revolution. Its author does not hesitate to call Americans rebels. He shows that the Revolution, in the context of the history of the British Empire, was only part of a truly global war. Alone, Great Britain fought France, Spain, and The Netherlands as well as the American colonists. At Britain’s back lay the shadow of an irate Ireland and the League of Armed Neutrality. Moreover, the author points out that British objectives were limited.
The British preserved the amenities of war in Europe because their opponents challenged their wealth and power but not British political or social structure, and they would live with their temporary enemies after the war. In America, too, the British objective was limited—to force the colonists back into the mold of Empire rather than to destroy them. The British desire for political power thus confronted the American desire for freedom.
The War for America 1775^-1783, includes the American Revolution only as a portion of the larger study of Britain’s attempt to maintain its Empire throughout the world from 1775 to 1783. Naval and military expeditions sailed from Britain to Canada, Central America, the West Indies, South Africa, the East Indies, and India as well as the colonies, while the Channel Fleet guarded the strategic center, the British Isles themselves. The strategy behind each expedition is described clearly, and the tactics of combat are sketched with sure but brief hand. Mr. Mackesy’s diligent digging into the provision of logistical and medical support for British combatant forces and his descriptions of their administrative machinery are almost unique contributions; his silhouettes of the political, economic, and military leaders are also extremely well done. Reading about the failures of many British leaders to provide leadership and administrative guidance may alert American readers to avoid similar mistakes.
There are many lessons in this book to be learned by Americans. Opposed by the second and third naval powers of the world, France and Spain, the British could not find enough ships to blockade America. The British knew that naval forces alone could control only limited areas about the American coast and rivers. Hence, the British tried to provide and supply a 30,000-man army in America, an effort which called for a prodigious expenditure of resources. The failure of the plan to end the American war by “one big battle” occurred at Saratoga. Thereafter, strategy called for a rollup from Georgia northward. It was less the amount of the naval forces provided by France than the timing of this provision that caught General Cornwallis in the cut de sac at Yorktown. Moreover, the British idea of establishing civil government behind their forward-rolling armies and entrusting it to loyalists never worked. While fairly numerous, the loyalists were unevenly distributed, unorganized, and lacked leadership, similarity of interests, and a common standard to rally about. Similar miscalculations were made about the capabilities of the rebel militia. British professionals disliked fighting people of their own kind, and the colonials were incensed that Britain used foreign mercenaries against them. George Washington’s small Continental Army was never destroyed. Even if it had been, militiamen always would have risen to defend at least their home areas. Reverses quickly intimidated raw recruits, but successes transformed them into an army, and their thin skirmish line and Indian type of fighting serve as models for insurgent and counter-insurgent warfare today. It did little good for the British to give up the close-order volley and bayonet charge in favor of open- order fighting, for the mass was ineffective, since it lacked speed and flexibility. There was no real military or political center of gravity in America which, if lost, would force the colonists to surrender. The fragmented political and economic structure of the colonies furnished protection for the rebels who, eschewing frontal battles, retired after skirmishing into the great depth of the country where difficulties of supply and transportation impeded pursuit.
Written largely from original sources on both sides of the ocean by a professionally trained historian with military experience and a policy of thoroughness, this book is valuable for the history of the years 1775 to 1783, and also for the lessons it provides in telling hoW the greatest empire in the world failed to subdue rebels conducting guerrilla warfare; how in seeking to end a civil war the British could not satisfy the loyalists and at the same time conciliate the rebels; how leaders of great armies failed to defeat bold Americans because of their timidity and because of a petrified political and administrative system; and how British failure to command the sea, at least at Yorktown, helped the Americans win their independence. In the end, despite King George III, whose image is much improved by Mr. Mackesy, the Americans were granted independence so that British resources, which were wearing very thin, could be spared for more vital theaters. It may hurt the American ego to be told that the mainland colonies were not as valuable to Britain as were the West Indies or India, but that was indeed the case.
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Every profession has its jargon, and the Navy is no exception. For thousands of civilians who served in the Navy during the last war, learning to understand nautical language was usually difficult, and sometimes downright traumatic.
One morning at muster during our first week in Flight Prep School, the cadet whose task it was to raise the colors had done a poor job, and the flag was at least a foot from the peak. The O-in-C looked significantly at the dipped colors, then snapped at a hulking cadet who had been an ex-tackle on a college football team, “Cadet, two-block that ensign.” Silence. Not a move.
“Snap to,” barked the O-in-C. “That was an order. Understand?”
“Yes, Sir. But . . . ”
“Now then, two-block that ensign.”
There was another agonized moment of indecision. Then, with a little shrug, the cadet squared his shoulders and stepped forward. “Yes, Sir,” he said, and launching his 220-pound frame through the air, he flattened the O-in-C’s ensign aide with a perfect cross-body block.
------------------------- Contributed by Commander Hugh A. Robertson, U. S. Naval Reserve
Professional Heading
By Robert M. Langdon
• The latest (67th) Jane's Fighting Ships, 1964-65 (McGraw-Hill, $42.50) lists 12,500 warships of 96 countries, and some 2,000 of them are pictured. This comprehensive panorama of all the world’s combatant ships, together with their supporting ships, reveals that more nations are making more use of the sea than ever before. In his perceptive Foreword, Editor Raymond V. B. Blackman calls special attention to the noticeable increase in the use of the sea as a military highway to bring combined naval, air, and military pressure to bear promptly and wherever required for watching, warning, policing, and fighting “brush fire” conflicts. One additional point of particular interest: In the estimation of Editor Blackman, “the massive naval rundown” of the Royal Navy from its wartime strength “has at last turned the corner and now appears to be on the upward curve.” While the Royal Navy has far fewer ships than in 1945, the nature of this contemporary force is especially designed for its present-day strategic and tactical roles. Two outstanding examples of this are the recently refitted aircraft carrier Eagle and the TYger-class cruisers which are relinquishing their after 6-inch gun mount to enable them to operate antisubmarine helicopters.
• Volume II of Aaron L. Shalowitz’ Shore and Sea Boundaries (Government Printing Office, $5.25) is now available. In this volume, the author—a long-time scientific and legal affiliate of the U. S. Coast and Geodetic Survey—provides an elsewhere-unavail- able wealth of technical-legal background material on the use of surveys and charts as for the delimitation of American waterfront boundaries in general. Volume I dealt exclusively with the California and Gulf of Mexico coasts (See “Professional Reading” in the July 1963 Proceedings, p. 123).
• In The Caribbean as Columbus Saw It (Little, Brown, $8.95), Rear Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison, U. S. Naval Reserve (Retired), returns to one of his favorite research themes—Christopher Columbus. Morison views the Caribbean in a way that was quite unavailable to the “Admiral of the Ocean Sea”—by air, in a plane piloted by the prominent Colombian Mauricio Obregon, who is the co-author of this latest Morison volume. The literary result of this aerial inspection is of distinct historical and geographic interest. Unfortunately, many of the book’s 300 illustrations have been reproduced in such a poor way as to bring acute dissatisfaction to the reader.
• There is a definite need for a thorough biographical register of the “Navy greats.” Karl Schuon’s U. S. Navy Biographical Dictionary (Watts, $15.00) makes a valiant attempt to fill that need, but the book’s unfortunate gaps and poor editing mar seriously its usefulness. As a companion volume to the same author’s U. S. Marine Corps Biographical Dictionary of last year, this book consists of brief biographical sketches of many of the Navy’s important figures. But no mention is made of such men as John Barry, Charles Lockwood, Robert Peary, H. K. Hewitt, Arthur Radford, Willis A. Lee, Richard Edwards, J. K. Taussig, William S. Benson, and Stephen B. Luce—to mention a few of the omissions. What has been presented is useful, but there remains the need for a more complete register.
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By Capt. S. W. Roskill, D.S.C., RN (Ret.), 1960. 480 pages. Illustrated.
SEA POWER
Air Operations in Naval Warfare Reading Supplement............................................................... $2.00 ($1.60)
Edited by Cdr. W. C. Blattmann, USN. 1957. 185 pages. Paperbound.
Geography and National Power.................................................................................................. $3.50 ($2.80)
Edited by Prof. W. W. Jeffries, U. S. Naval Academy. 3rd Ed., 1962. 180 pages. Paperbound.
Naval Logistics........................................................................................................................... $7.50 ($6.00)
By Vice Adm. G. C. Dyer, USN (Ret.). 2nd Ed., 1962. 367 pages. Illustrated.
Naval Review 1962-1963 $10.00 ($8.00)
14 essays. 3 appendixes. 1962. 373 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1964 . ...................................................................................... $10.00 ($8.00)
12 essays. 5 appendixes. 1963. 393 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
Naval Review 1965 ........................................................................................... $12.50 ($10.00)
12 essays. 3 appendixes. 1964. 407 pages. Illustrated. Maps.
SEAMANSHIP
The Art of Knotting and Splicing................................................................................... • • $3-00 $(4.00)
By Cyrus Day. Step-by-step pictures explanatory text. 2nd Ed., 1955. 224 pages.
Naval Shiphandling.............................................................................................................. • $7.00 ($5.60)
By Capt. R. S. Crenshaw, Jr., USN. 2nd Ed., 1960. 529 pages. Illustrated
NAVIGATION—PILOTING
Dutton’s Navigation and Piloting......................................................................................... $8.00 ($6.40)
Prepared by Cdr. J. C. Hill, II, USN. Lt. Cdr. 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)
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PROFESSIONAL HANDBOOKS
The Bluejackets’ Manual, U. S. Navy................................................................................... $2.60 ($2.08)
Revised by Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN, and W. J. Miller, JOCM, USN (FR).
17th Ed., 1964. 684 pages. Illustrated.
The Coast Guardsman’s Manual........................................................................................... $4.75 ($3.80)
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Division Officer’s Guide...................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
By Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 5th Ed., 1962. 282 pages.
The Marine Officer’s Guide................................................................................................. $7.50 ($6.00)
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The Naval Aviator’s Guide................................................................................................... $6.50 ($5.20)
By Capt. M. W. Cagle, USN. 1963. 305 pages. Illustrated.
The Naval Officer’s Guide................................................................................................... $7.75 ($6.20)
By Rear Adm. A. A. Ageton, USN (Ret.), with Rear Adm. W. P. Mack, USN.
6th Ed., 1964. 650 pages. Illustrated.
Studies in Guerrilla Warfare................................................................................................. $2.50 ($2.00)
Studies written by experts in the field. Originally published as articles in the Proceedings. 1963. 89 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Watch Officer’s Guide......................................................................................................... $3.00 ($2.40)
Revised by Capt. J. V. Noel, Jr., USN. 9th Ed., 1961. 302 pages. Illustrated.
LEADERSHIP
Naval Leadership, 2nd edition............................................................................................... $4.50 ($3.60)
Compiled by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, Capt. F. J. Mulholland, USMC, Cdr.
J. M. Laudenslager, MSC, USNR, Lt. H. J. Connery, MSC, USN, R. Adm.
Bruce McCandless, USN (Ret.), and Assoc. Prof. G. 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 Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Capt. F. J. Mulholland, USMC.
Revised by Leadership Committee, Command Department, U. S. Naval Academy. 1960. 126 pages. Paperbound.
ENGINEERING
Descriptive Analysis of Naval Turbine Propulsion Plants...................................................... $6.00 ($4.80)
By Cdr. C. N. Payne, USN. 1958. 187 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships..............................................
By Prof. T. C. Gillmer, U. S. Naval Academy. 2nd Ed.. 1959. 373 pages. Illustrated.
Internal Combustion Engines................................................................................
By Cdr. P. W. Gill, USX, Cdr. J. H. Smith, Jr., USN, and Prof. E. T. Ziurys. 4th Ed., 1959. 570 pages. Illustrated.
Introduction to Marine Engineering......................................................
By Prof. R. I. Latham, U. S. Naval Academy. 1958. 208 pages. Illustrated.
SCIENCES
Elements of Applied Thermodynamics.......................................................
By Prof. R. M. Johnston, Capt. W. A. Brockett, USN, and Prof. A. E. Bock. 3rd Ed., 1958. 496 pages. Illustrated.
Fundamentals of Sonar..............................................................................
By Dr. J. IV. Horton. 2nd Ed., 1959. 417 pages. Illustrated!
The Human Machine, Biological Science for the Armed Services By Capt. C. W. Shilling, MC, USN. 292 pages. Illustrated.
Logarithmic and Trigonometric Tables.......................................................................
By the Department of Mathematics, U. S. Naval Academy. 1945. 89 pages.
Marine Fouling and Its Prevention.................................................................................
Prepared for Bureau of Ships, Navy Department, by Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. 1952. 388 pages. Illustrated.
Ocean Sciences.............................................................
Edited by Capt. E. J. Long, USNR (Ret.). 1964. 304 pages. Illustrated.
The Rule of Nine.................................................................................................................
By William Wallace, Jr. An easy, speedy way to check addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. 1959. 27 pages. I’aperbound.
LAW
A Brief History of Courts-Martial...................................................................
By Brig. Gen. James Snedeker, USMC (Ret.). 1954. 65 pages. Paperbound.
International Law for Seagoing Officers...........................................................
By Cdr. B. H. Brittin, USN, and Dr. Liselotte B. Watson. 2nd Ed., 1960. 318 pages. Illustrated.
Military Law.....................................................................................
Compiled by Capt. J. K. Taussig, Jr., USN (Ret ), and Cdr. H. B. Sweitzer, USN. Revised and edited by Cdr. M. E. Wolfe, USN, and Lt. Cdr. R. I. Gulick, USN. Revised by Lt. Cdr. J. W. Des Jardin, USN. 2nd Ed., 1963. 94 pages.
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Introduction to Brazilian Portuguese...............................................................
By Assoc. Prof. J. Riccio, U. S. Naval Academy, 1957. 299 pages. Paperbound.
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Russian Conversation and Grammar, 3rd edition, 1960 By Prof. C. P. Lemieux, U. S. Naval Academy
Vol. Two—121 pages. Paperbound..................................................................... $2.50 ($2.00)
By Prof. C. 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.................................................. $5.00 ($4.00)
Edited by the SACLANT-NATO Cookbook Committee. 1957. 244 pages.
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Naval Customs, Traditions, and Usage.............................................................................
By Vice Adm. L. P. Lovette, USN (Ret.). 4th Ed., 1959. 358 pages. Illustrated.
Prayers at Sea ..................................................................................................................
By Chaplain Joseph F. Parker, USN.
The Sailor’s Wife.............................................................................................................
By Lucy Wright. 1962. 112 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Service Etiquette..............................................................................................................
By Capt. Brooks J. Harral, USN, and Oretha D. Swartz.
Revised by Oretha D. Swartz. 2nd Ed., 1963. 450 pages. Illustrated.
Welcome Aboard.............................................................................................................
By Florence Ridgely Johnson. A guide for the naval officer’s bride. 6th Ed., 1964. 264 pages.
SPORTS—ATHLETICS
Hand to Hand Combat . .
1943. 228 pages.
How to Survive on
Land and Sea..........................
2nd Revised Ed., 1956. 366 pages.
Intramural Programs . . .
Revised, 1950. 249 pages.
Soccer ....................................
3rd Ed., 1961. 172 pages. Swimming and Diving . .
3rd Ed., 1962. 345 pages.
Physical Education Series—V-5 Association of America
Boxing................................................ $4.00.... ($3.20)
Revised. 1950. 288 pages.
Championship Wrestling . . $4.50 ($3.60)
1964. 230 pages.
Conditioning Exercises . . $4.50 ($3.60)
3rd Ed., 1960. 275 pages.
Gymnastics and Tumbling . $4.50 ($3.60)
2nd Revised Ed., 1959.
414 pages.
Baseball....................................................................... .......................................................
By Robert Spackman, Jr. 1963. 152 pages. Illustrated.
Modem Fencing....................................................................................................................
By Clovis Deladrier. 1948. 289 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
Squash Racquets...................................................................................................................
By Cdr. A. M. Potter, USNR. 1958. 50 pages. Illustrated. Paperbound.
U. S. NAVAL ACADEMY
Annapolis Today..................................................................................................................
By Kendall Banning. Revised by A. Stuart Pitt. 1963. 329 pages. Illustrated.
The Book of Navy Songs.....................................................................................................
Compiled by the Trident Society of the Naval Academy. 160 pages. Illustrated. Sold only to Midshipmen and Naval Institute members.
The Prayer of a Midshipman.................................................................................................
The midshipman’s prayer printed on quality paper, suitable for framing. Reef Points
The Handbook of the Brigade of Midshipmen, 1964-1965 .................................................
Compiled by the Reef Points Stall of the Trident Society.
PROCEEDINGS COVER PAINTINGS
Full-color reproductions, 26 x 22 inches, suitable for framing:
USS Enterprise (June 1962) by C. G. Evers..........................................................................
USS llainbridge (November 1962) by C. G. Evers.................................................................
USS Thresher (March 1964) by C. G. Evers.........................................................................
(No discount on Thresher prints. All proceeds to Thresher Fund.)
USS Long Beach (August 1964) by C. G. Evers....................................................................
Flying Cloud (April 1964) by Warren Sheppard....................................................................
Full-color reproductions, printed on 13 x 13-inch mat, as they appeared on the Proceedings for 1953, 1954, 1955, 1956, 1957, 1958, 1959. Complete set of 12 for any year listed...........................................................................................