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The Red Army
By Edgar O’Ballance. New York: Frederick A. Praeger, 1964. 237 pages. $7.50.
Russia at War
By Alexander Werth. New York: Dutton, 1964. 1,100 pages. $10.00.
REVIEWED BY
Dr. Richard F. Staar
{Dr. Staar is Professor of Political Science at Emory University and the author of Poland: 1944-1962. Pie is now completing a book on Eastern Europe in transition. During the 1963-1964 academic year, he occupied the Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Chair of Social and Political Philosophy at the Naval War College.)
It would be of value to peruse the readable study by Major O’Ballance of the British Territorial Army, if only for background, before attacking Mr. Werth’s monumental volume dealing with the Second World War as seen from the Russian front. The serious student of Soviet military affairs will not find much that is new in Major O’Ballance’s brief history of the Soviet armed forces. What had been done previously by D. Fedotoff White, General Augustine Gillaume, and Captain B. H. Fiddell Hart is indeed acknowledged by Major O’Ballance and brought up to date. This is not meant to deprecate the work under review, since it does represent a most useful summary.
The author treats his subject chronologically in ten short chapters, along the same pattern which he followed in The Red Army of China (1962). He singles out and devotes separate chapters to the Soviet war with Poland in 1920 and the Finnish campaign of 1939-1940. World War II is dealt with year by year in concise fashion with each section followed by an analysis of developments. Unfortunately, the last chapter fails to discuss the series of articles that have appeared over the past three years in the daily organ of the Defense Ministry, Krasnaya ffyezda (Red Star), all of which bear the heading “The Revolution in Military Affairs, Its Significance and Consequences.” This is didactic material, and it represents a campaign of enlightenment on the subject. The articles are authored by prominent Soviet specialists and important military leaders.
If The Red Army is based exclusively on secondary sources, Russia at War combines the eyewitness diary of an experienced journalist, who spent most of World War II in the Soviet Union as a British reporter, with an extensive study of materials in the Russian language. Mr. Werth had the opportunity of speaking with many senior Soviet military leaders during that war. Of special interest is his interview with the current Soviet Defense Minister, Marshal Rodyon Y. Malinovsky, then a lieutenant general.
As source materials, the author relied heavily on the six-volume Istoriya Velikoi Otechest- vennoi Voiny Sovetskogo Soyuza (History of the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union) which started appearing in 1960, seven years after Joseph Stalin’s death. He compares this with memoirs of German generals to present both sides of important battles. Absent, however, is any reference to the study by Hans- Adolf Jacobsen and Jurgen Rohwer, Ent- scheidungsschlachten Des ffweiten Weltkrieges (Decisive Battles of World War Two, 1960). Mr- Werth does refer to other authors and secondary materials with which he disagrees, for example the Rand Corporation’s Feon Goure and his book The Siege of Leningrad (1962) • Here the author may be prejudiced, and understandably so, since this was the city of his birth which he left at age 17.
This sympathy for the Russians also appears in Mr. Werth’s treatment of a visit to the newly formed Kosciuszko Division which, he claims, had mostly Polish officers. Yet it has been admitted recently, and even by the regime in Warsaw, that “here also the Soviet Union came to our assistance, designating
generals and officers to perform [military] service in the Polish units. [In this manner], a total of 17,000 Soviet officers was delegated.” As a matter of record, these and other “delegated” officers had been permitted to accept the citizenship of East European countries by Soviet decree.
It is true, of course, that probably some 20 million citizens of the Soviet Union, or ten Per cent of the population, lost their lives in ffie war, but other countries suffered even more from the Soviet Union. Official documents left behind during the Red Army’s retreat and now available in the West include NKVD Deputy Commissar Ivan A. Serov’s notorious Order No. 001223 of 11 October 1939, on deportations from the three Baltic republics. Poland lost one-fifth of its population, much of it due to the vast “social engineering” project which led to mass deportation in cattle cars of 1.6 million Poles to the Soviet Union during the 1939-1941 Hitler- Stalin “honeymoon.” These repressive measures are mentioned by the author, but one has the feeling that he explains the atrocities involved as being in some manner different from the policy of genocide as practiced by the Nazis. The difference was merely one of degree.
Mr. Werth is at his best in his close-ups of the battle areas at Smolensk, Leningrad, Stalingrad, Odessa, and the Crimea after the Germans had capitulated or been defeated. He compares German resistance with that of the Soviet armed forces at the beginning of Operation Barbarossa. These scenes graphically portray the viciousness of this war, the almost incomprehensible suffering involved, and the cold-blooded massacres committed by SS troops and the Gestapo against the
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civilian population which was considered to be “subhuman” according to Nazi philosophy.
This feeling of empathy allows the author to highlight his narrative with the human element. However, his book should not be considered a definitive study of Russia and World War II, especially in view of the fact that the output by Soviet writers alone is truly staggering. Professor John Erickson in his “The Soviet Union at War,” Soviet Studies (January, 1963), lists the extent of materials available in the Russian language alone as of that date. Since that time, many other books have appeared in print, including Marshal A. I. Eremenko’s V Nachate Voiny (At the Beginning of the War, 1964). A one- volume history of the Second World War, edited by Major General M. M. Minasyan and 26 other experts, was to be published in the spring of 1965. Until a scholar undertakes the truly lifetime work of exploiting these materials and seeking for the truth, which always changes in the Soviet Union, Mr. Werth’s book will remain the most comprehensive journalistic effort available.
Shipping in the Port of Annapolis 1748-1775
By Vaughan W. Brown, Annapolis: U. S.
Naval Institute, 1965. 72 pages. Illustrated. $6.50.
Pine Trees and Politics
By Joseph J. Malone, Seattle: University
of Washington Press, 1964. 219 pages. $5.00.
REVIEWED BY
Dr. Robert G. Albion
(Dr. Albion is Gardiner Professor of Oceanic History
and Affairs at Harvard University.)
American maritime history between 1775 and 1865 has been quite adequately covered, both for atmosphere and factual detail of the “Heroic Age” and the “Golden Age.” But for the years before and after that period, there remains much to be done, both in the half century of the “Dark Ages” to 1914 and, of special concern here, in the colonial period. That is why these two books, each carrying its story to 1775, will be particularly useful, giving a wealth of information not hitherto readily available.
The Annapolis volume is an outgrowth of the work of Historic Annapolis, Inc., which received a grant from the Old Dominion Foundation for a general study of the colonial port area. The detailed Port of Entry Books in the Maryland Hall of Records and the Maryland Historical Society contain a large amount of factual material showing how the port flourished in the quarter century before the Revolution and suggesting why Baltimore outstripped it shortly thereafter. The author is a versatile Williams College graduate with experience in physiology and naval architecture who has served with the staff of Historic Annapolis.
Half of the book is occupied by a valuable “list of every vessel that cleared customs at Annapolis between 25 June, 1748, and 19 July, 1775.” Eight separate items are listed for each vessel—name, rig, tonnage, stern, build, documented, master, and owners. Starting with the 67-ton, square-sterned sloop Abigail, built in Rhode Island in 1761, documented at Newport in 1769, commanded by Nathan West, and owned by George Gibbs
and Samuel Fowler, the list gives similar details for hundreds of ships, brigs, snows, brigantines, schooners, and sloops, all the way to the little, 12-ton sloop ZeP^W> built at New Providence in the Bahamas and owned there. The author has done considerable interesting tabulating, showing, for instance, that about one-third of the vessels were registered in the British Isles, another third at Annapolis or vicinity, and the rest at “other American Ports including the West Indies.” This is the sort of tangible information that is so scarce for the colonial period. In addition to the author’s tabulations, there is ample opportunity for readers to gratify their curiosity on many particular subjects.
The old records also yielded information about cargoes as well as vessels. The most significant figures show how grain and flour finally overtook tobacco as the port’s principal offering. Between 1749 and 1774, tobacco exports rose from 5,348 hogsheads to 8,252 but grain jumped from 82,684 bushels to 472,783, and flour from 1,598 barrels to ^0,164! That was in part the work of “Daniel Dulany, the Elder,” who had come over as an indentured servant and did much to develop grain production in western Maryland, producing a temporary boom, but at the same time paving the way for the diversion of that trade to Baltimore.
Once again, the Naval Institute deserves the gratitude of scholars and lovers of the sea by doing more than almost anyone else to bring out worthwhile publications in general ftiaritime as well as naval history. These new Sea Power Monographs have considerable Possibilities.
Pine Trees and Politics is primarily a study of the making and enforcing of policies in connection with a supply of tar, pitch, hemp, and,
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particularly, naval masts from colonial New England. It is not a virgin subject. In 1898, Eleanor L. Lord dealt' with it in a pioneer Ph.D. thesis for Bryn Mawr. Since then, several of us have dealt with aspects of it in chapters of more general studies. However, Mr. Malone, who teaches history at the American University of Beirut, has been able to give a more thorough-going analysis, based primarily on the Colonial Office manuscripts in London.
The subject falls into two fairly distinct parts. The matter of naval stores proper—tar, pitch, and the like—represented a mercantilist effort to give New England a proper niche in the idea of a self-sufficient empire, producing exotic materials that were not available at home. Britain and the other naval powers were getting those stores from the Baltic, which not only involved an unfavorable balance of trade, but also the strategic danger of having those critical materials cut off at the Danish bottleneck. The Board of Trade was enthusiastic about the policy, while the Royal Navy, which had to pay the heavy bounties, was not, claiming that the tar was of so hot a nature it would damage the cordage. The New Englanders failed to produce much; the North Carolinians won the lasting epithet of “Tarheels” by producing large quantities, but the Navy continued to use Baltic materials. “If the premium acts were ‘pump priming’ devices to increase colonial purchases of English manufactured goods,” declares the author, “the Royal Navy should not have been responsible for payments.”
The masts, however, were a different matter. The Royal Navy received its major masts and spars from New Hampshire and Maine for more than a century before the American Revolution. The white pine sticks could serve in a single piece whereas several smaller Baltic firs had to be pinned together. To preserve such masts for the Navy, pines over 23 inches in diameter were marked with the Broad Arrow to reserve them for naval use. However, lumber was the principal economic offering of New Hampshire and Maine, and many potential mast pines were cut into boards and planks. It was more than the Surveyor General of Woods with his few deputies could do to preserve them, even if he tried, in view of the lumber interests en-
trenched in the top political and judicial positions, especially in New Hampshire. Forty years ago I wrote that the Broad Arrow policy “in offering one of the earliest and most continuous outlets of colonial hostility to English dominion is very important because of the bearing which it had in paving the way for the Revolution.” It is interesting to note that Mr. Malone comes to a similar conclusion, stressing the fact that it was causing trouble long before the familiar post-1764 events which are usually stressed as leading to the break with England. This is a solid piece of research that deserves a lasting place in the study of naval materiel policy as well as in local New England history.
Weyers Flottentaschenbuch 1965
Edited by Alexander Bredt. Munich:
J. F. Lehmann Verlag, 1965. 403 pages.
Illustrated. 48 DM.
Almanacco Navale 1964-65
By Giorgio Giorgerini and Augusto Nani.
Rome: Rivista Marittima, 1964. 671 pages.
Illustrated. 6,000 Lira.
REVIEWED BY
Lieutenant Richard H. Webber,
U. S. Naval Reserve
(.Lieutenant Webber is a research assistant with the
Nanai History Division, Office oj the Chief of Naval
Operations.)
Some years ago, a reviewer of Jane's Fighting Ships noted “It must be terribly difficult today to assemble a comprehensive and authoritative naval annual, with . . . admiralties tightening the lid of secrecy on their publicity releases.” These words are certainly no less true today, and the latest editions of Weyers Flottentaschenbuch and Al-
The Italian guided missile cruiser Caio Di/ilio, right, and her sister ship Andrea Daria are two of the newest and most interesting ships described in current naval annuals. These ships displace 6,500 tons full load, are 4831 feet over-all, and are armed with a twin Terrier missile launcher, eight single 3-inch guns, and six 21-inch torpedo tubes. Four ASW helicopters are also carried.
manacco Navale demonstrate how well this challenge can be met.
For example, not many months ago two new Soviet guided missile frigates of the Kashin class passed through the Turkish Straits en route to Yugoslavia. This was the first appearance of the Kashins in Western- controlled waters and probably the first official notice that the Western press had of their existence. It is, therefore, most significant that Weyers contains a superb line drawing of this class and data including the design’s interesting armament and engineering plant. In this case, as in several others, Weyers has published material which will not become generally available until the 1966 editions of the other major naval annuals appear. While the information in Almanacco Navale is not as current as that in Weyers, it is obvious that here, too, much effort has been expended in making the latest information available to the user.
Although less well known to American readers than Jane's Fighting Ships, both Weyers and Almanacco Navale have a distinguished lineage. Weyers has been published, with some breaks, since 1903. Almanacco Navale was published from 1937 to 1943 and returned to print in 1962.
Both books are profusely illustrated with
Italian Navy
fine line drawings of combatant and auxiliary vessels. However, it is unfortunate that the editors of Almanacco Navale did not extend this coverage to the ships of many of the lesser navies. The reader is thereby deprived of the opportunity to study the details of such ships as the interesting all-purpose corvettes built in Britain for Ghana’s Navy. The Kromatse and her sister Keta are particularly important m that they perhaps point the way to an inexpensive, easily produced vessel which would Partially alleviate the ocean escort problem.
On the other hand, Almanacco Navale has some of the finest and most up-to-date photographic coverage of the world’s larger navies that this reviewer has seen—coverage exceeded only by Jane's Fighting Ships. The clarity and unusual camera angles of many Photographs, particularly those of Soviet ships, provide the reader with an opportunity to view exterior sections of the ships which are not ordinarily visible.
Another impression one receives from both 1Beyers and Almanacco Navale is that great pains have been taken to keep the illustrations current. It is most unusual to find a photograph dated earlier than the late 1950s and even then the reader can safely assume that ship appears essentially as she is today.
his is in marked contrast to Jane's Fighting
Ships which has some regrettable holdovers such as the USS Northampton (CC-I) still mounting her eight 3-inch 70 caliber guns.
However, both new books do have significant shortcomings. Weyers suffers from the separation of illustrations and technical information—in many cases a separation of nearly 200 pages. The editors of Almanacco Navale have handled this in the more functional manner, long used by Jane's Fighting Ships, of grouping of technical and illustrative material. In addition, Almanacco Navale has taken the very significant and noteworthy step of grouping certain ships according to functions with the result that the so-called “commando carriers” (LPHs) are included with other amphibious ships. This simultaneously avoids the problem of an inaccurate assessment of fleet carrier strength while providing the user with a more realistic appraisal of amphibious capabilities.
Unfortunately, the accuracy of Almanacco Navale’s technical information is sometimes faulty. For example, the Northampton is still listed with 3-inch guns (she landed them in August 1962); the impression is given that the USS Enterprise (CVAN-65) is now equipped with Terrier missiles (corrected only by an ambiguous marginal notation); and a surprisingly large number of nuclear submarines
is credited to the Soviet Union—31 at the date of publication (the more conservative, and probably more reliable, estimate offered by Weyers is 16).
The books pose a certain handicap for those who do not read German or Italian, but the material is organized in such a manner that a pocket dictionary solves most of the translation problems. All pertinent data is in tabular form, and the reader quickly can use either book with nearly as much facility as he can use Jane’s Fighting Ships. The lengthy notes may present certain difficulties, although even here, the general meaning is often easily ascertainable.
Despite the above-mentioned shortcomings, Weyers and Almanacco Navale represent a very definite challenge to the long supremacy Jane’s Fighting Ships has enjoyed in the United States. The information, quality of the illustrations, and reasonable prices of Weyers and Almanacco Navale make either book a valuable acquisition for the reader who cannot afford regularly to purchase Jane's Fighting Ships.
The Sea and the Sword
By Oliver Warner. New York: William
Morrow, 1965. 305 pages. $6.00.
REVIEWED BY
Dr. Theodore Ropp
(Dr. Ropp is Professor of History at Duke University.)
Although Mr. Warner’s readers are promised “naval history in its most romantic and varied aspects,” his work is weakest on ship types and naval battles and strongest on the land campaigns and battles which necessarily impinged on the naval control of Europe’s northern inland sea from 1630 to 1945. On these land matters the book is very good indeed for a writer who has written well on naval battles and who has published a good coffee-table tome on Great Sea Battles (1963).
As might have been expected from a writer who has often used the biographical approach, the sketches of Gustavus Adolphus, Peter the Great, Charles XII, Frederick the Great, and Catherine the Great are excellent, and the material on the Baltic during the Napoleonic era is quite good. The other half of the book—“The Baltic Reordered” [1917— 1945]—begins when the Germans “arrogant with success, began to call the North Sea . . . the German Ocean.” Lord Fisher’s scheme for an Anglo-Russian landing near Stettin is not mentioned in the account of the First World War, an interesting omission for a former employee of the Admiralty, but four pages are devoted to a potted summary of Marxist-Leninist philosophy. Much of this section seems to have been written with an eye on the American Cold War market. It contains neither factual errors nor new ideas.
Mr. Warner was not attempting to write a scholarly history or a military treatise on the interaction of land and sea power in this particular inland sea. As the only recent work in English on this key strategic arena, it will give the thoughtful reader some insights and is highly recommended for these reasons. Mr. Warner’s bibliography is up to date, but does not list the best background books on “the enchanting Danes, . . . the serious Swedes, the resilient Finns, the all-enduring Russians, the unpredictable Poles, [and] the obedient Germans.”
A study of the subject brings up the questions: Did Russia really get “all it wished for” in the Baltic in 1945, or is it still landlocked in this area? What were the long-term effects of its victory on the international balance of maritime power and commerce? Does the rumor that it will establish a large marine corps have any real significance? Answers to these key questions would demand more astute historical or more sophisticated military analysis than is found in this book, and the sacrifice of much fine writing) such as the sentences about Stalin: “He found Russia working with wooden ploughs and left her with atomic piles. It was against this formidable will, supported by a nation almost as numerous as grains of sand on a seashore, that Hitler was to let loose his obedient soldiers.”
Popular military writers can have some' thing to say. The pot will boil with this one ' it is the only recent book in English on a most important subject, but the reader will have to supply his own sparks and much of his own fuel. Like many recent writers on naval and military history, Mr. Warner makes Admiral Mahan look like the great narrative historian and military analyst which he was.
Professional Reading
By Robert M. Langdon
• Two more books added to the score of volumes constituting the UNITED KINGDOM MILITARY SERIES (the official British history of World War II) are especially welcome. These books constitute Volume III of the Grand Strategy subseries which will consist of six volumes when Volume I and IV are published. They add considerably to the over-all strategic comprehension of the conflict. Volume III is in two separate parts, Part I by J. M. A. Gwyer and Part II by J. R. M. Butler. Together they cover the strategic story from June 1941, to August 1942, the last period in which the Axis may be said to have enjoyed the initiative. Global in concept, these Grand Strategy volumes contain all of the admirable features which have combined to make this official history unsurpassed in the historiography of warfare. (Available from British Information Services, 845 Third Avenue, New York 22, $16.80 for both parts; not sold separately.)
• Ihe most recent Ian Allan pocket book from England is British Warships by H. T. Lenton which provides dimensions and particulars on all British and Commonwealth warhips currently in service (available from Sportshelf, $1.25). The only serious shortcoming of the volume is the listing of ships under their World War II classes, a system which now has little use or meaning. French warship authority Henri Le Masson has produced Batiments de Guerre D’aujourd'hui (“Warships of Today”) which takes a look at representative types of combatant and auxiliary ships of several navies, providing fine photographs and basic data. Of particular significance is the author’s arrangement of ships, leading with aircraft carriers and then listing submarines, and including the /owa-class battleships with amphibious ships . . . reflecting their only real value today. (Available from Editions Mari times, 17, Rue Jacob, Paris, 25 Frs.)
• In the vast amount of literature written about him, no better book exists on one of America’s most controversial military figures than Billy Mitchell: Crusader for Air Power (Watts, $5.95) by Major A. P. Hurley, U. S. Air Force. If the reader will approach this 140-page volume with a minimum of preconceived notions, he can derive considerable benefit from a careful reading. The author has performed a masterful research job as is evidenced by his ample bibliography and by the temperate fashion with which he handles the delicate events that occurred during the career of the crusading Mitchell.
• Among the growing stream of rocket and space books, the following merit mention, Eugene M. Emme’s The History of Rocket Technology (Wayne University Press, $8.50), a collection of 14 documented essays by an impressive battery of recognized experts such as Vanguard’s John P. Hagen, V-2’s Walter Dornberger, and former Soviet rocket scientist G. A. Tokaty; Gene Gurney’s Rocket and Missile Technology (Franklin Watts, $5.95), an edited collection of several dozen accounts by observers, scientists, and participants; Lillian Levy’s Space: Its Impact on Man and Society (Norton, $4.50), an edited collection of 21 essays concerning the social implications of space; and K. W. Gatland’s Spacecraft and Boosters (Aero Publishers, $13.00). The last is the first of a series of annual comprehensive analyses of space launchings, this volume covering the U. S. and Soviet achievements of 1961. Also, Beyond the Solar System (Viking, $6.50), by Willy Ley and Chesley Bonesteel is a colorful introduction to the strange stellar systems in the regions nearby our galaxy.
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Shipping in the Port of Annapolis, 1748-1775 ................................................................ $6.50
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Fundamentals of Construction and Stability of Naval Ships..................................
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Elements of Applied Thermodynamics.....................................................
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Fundamentals of Sonar....................................................................................
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Marine Fouling and Its Prevention...........................................................................
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Ocean Sciences..........................................................
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