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Notable

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1 he Proceedings' first annual selec­tion of “Notable Naval Books” ap­peared in 1950. In the 29 years since its publication, hundreds of outstand­ing books on naval and maritime sub­jects have been reviewed: strategic studies and analyses, biographies, au­tobiographies, memoirs, naval annu­als, and histories of every description. In recent years, however, none were novels. Works of fiction were ex­cluded as a matter of policy. That was a policy for which a plausible argu­ment can be made, but it has been discarded, and this year a number of novels have been included. Their selection was based most importantly on the insights they provide into their subject areas. That carefully chosen fiction can contribute to an under­standing of the attitudes and atmos­phere of the past has long been ac­cepted by the historical profession. Certainly, the imaginative possibilities it opens and the vicarious experience it transmits can contribute to the naval profession, as well.

An unavoidable consequence of the decision to consider works of fiction has been to increase the annual crunch in the selection process for this review. The problem is always, where to make the cut? In the end, the eliminations are made on the basis of a rather arbi­trary and quite subjective standard. Finally, 23 books, some of which ap­peared late in 1978, have been chosen for this year’s survey.

Last year’s review looked forward to the publication of a number of works then under way in the strangely neg­lected field of naval biography. It is a pleasure to note that the first of those has now appeared: Professor Paolo E. Coletta’s magnificently researched Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy. A graduate of the Naval Academy Class of. 1874, Fiske was truly, as Coletta titles his con­cluding chapter, “A Versatile Naval Officer.” As an inventor, he contrib­uted to the growth of naval technol­ogy. As an institutional reformer, he did much to lay the groundwork for the creation of the post of chief of naval operations. As “aide for opera­tions” to Secretary of the Navy Josephus Daniels, he helped to prepare the Navy for World War I. This

well-written record evokes both the man and his era.

Fiske is one of 215 officers included in Clark G. Reynolds’s biographical compendium of Famous American Ad­mirals. A noteworthy feature is that, unlike most works of its kind, it lists every shipboard and shore billet in which its subjects served. There is also a portrait of each individual.

In Praise of Sailors: A Nautical An­thology of Art, Poetry, and Prose, com­piled and edited by Herbert W. War­den III, is a visual delight, incon- trovertibly the most attractive of this year’s books. An armchair voyager’s evocation of life under sail, it consists of excerpts from the literature of the sea (Masefield, Kipling, Conrad, and many others) complemented by 186 superb illustrations, including 44 hand-tipped, color plates. It should enthrall anyone with a drop of salt water in his veins.

It is pleasant to record that this is the third consecutive collection of “Notable Naval Books” to include a history of the U. S. Navy. In 1977, it was Nathan Miller’s The U. S. Navy■’ An Illustrated History; in 1978, it was Kenneth J. Hagan’s In Peace and War: Interpretations of American Naval His­tory, 1775-1978. This year, it is the second edition of Professor Coletta’s The American Naval Heritage in Brief, a comprehensive survey explicitly de­signed for use as a college text. In this edition, the coverage has been brought up to August 1979, the bibliography has been revised, and 100 maps and charts have been added. The attention paid to the often-overlooked evolution of naval administration and the role of the Secretaries of the Navy is par­ticularly praiseworthy. While the outline-style organization detracts somewhat from the work’s readability, it greatly enhances its utility as a ready reference.

Six technological histories, similar in concept and execution, are judged as notable. Each traces the develop­ment, describes the characteristics and performance, and, to some degree, re­cords the operational employment of its subject ships or aircraft.

Broadest in scope is Captain Richard C. Knott’s The American Fly­ing Boat: An Illustrated History, which

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■^counts the history of a group of mag- ⁿ‘ficent men as well as of their flying machines. Its subjects range from avi­^ation pioneer Glenn Curtis of Ham- mondsport, through the NC-4 fliers ^who became “first across” the Atlantic ^ln 1919, to Howard Hughes’s eight- engined, all-wood “Spruce Goose” uhe largest aircraft ever built), and f ^e Martin P5M Marlin, the Navy’:

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est Germany. It surveys the evolu-

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^ qually impressive is Flugzeugtrdger _z H. 5', Navy, Band 1: Flottenflug- ^gtr'dger (Aircraft Carriers of the _r-'b- Navy, Volume I: Fleet Car- ^^rs)> by Stefan Terzibaschitsch, a ^est German naval expert. Illustrated by 94 ships’ diagrams and 322 photo­graphs, it treats every U. S. fleet car­rier from the Langley (CV-l) to the Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN-69). A companion volume, on escort carriers, has just appeared.

Detailed and reliable technical in­formation on warships of the world built prior to the appearance of the modern naval annual, heralded by Jane’s Fighting Ships in 1898, is often hard to find. The difficulties under which researchers have long labored has been largely dispelled by the pub­lication of Conway’s All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 ■ A retro­spective fleet review, produced under the editorial direction of Robert Gar­diner, it contains specifications and data on approximately 3,500 war­ships, circa 400 tons and up, in serv­ice throughout the world between the launching of the first seagoing ar­mored ship, HMS Warrior, in I860, and the construction of the first all­big-gun battleship, HMS Dreadnought, in 1905-06. The complement of illus­trations is superb.

As usual, the heaviest concentration of histories centers on World War II. The high-interest area in the his­toriography of the conflict continues to be the exploration of the impact of the fact, first revealed in 1974, that the Allies had broken the Japanese and German secret codes and were able to read a considerable portion of their radio transmissions. Captain W. J. Holmes describes the work of the American codebreakers in his fascinat­ing memoir, Double-Edged Secrets: U. S. Naval Intelligence Operations in the Pacific During World War II. A Naval Academy graduate, Class of 1922, who was forced to retire from the serv­ice for physical disability in 1936, he returned to active duty in June 1941 and was assigned to the intelligence organization that came to be known by the innocuous anagram FRUPac (Fleet Radio Unit Pacific). This unit, formed under the brilliant leadership of then-Commander Joseph J. Rochefort, provided Admiral Nimitz with intelligence—such as the Jap­anese plan for the Battle of Mid­way—that often proved of decisive importance in the American conduct of the war. Jasper Holmes is a born storyteller, with a nice sense of whim­sy, and his narrative rivets the reader’s attention from beginning to end.

Meanwhile, half a world away from FRUPac’s basement headquarters in Pearl Harbor, British cryptanalysts were busily decoding the "Ultra" se­cret messages of the Germans’ Enigma enciphering machine. How this was accomplished and how it affected the course of the war in Europe are related in Ronald Lewin’s Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II’s Greatest Secret Based on Official Docu­ments. A British military historian, best known for his biographies of World War II leaders (1Churchill as Warlord, Rommel as Military Com­mander, and others), Lewin studied the actual Ultra messages the British Gov­ernment began to release in October 1977 (many still remain classified). In addition, he interviewed dozens of in­dividuals, from field marshals to former secretaries, who had been per­sonally involved in the acquisition, handling, and using of Ultra intelli­gence. His well-balanced study fur­nishes the most comprehensive treat­ment of Ultra available to date.

Two other World War II books have a German focus. Jak P. Mallmann Showell’s The German Navy in World War II: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1939-1945, assem­bles a mass of data, much of which has never previously appeared in English, on the ships, weapons, organization, command structure, uniforms, insig­nia, decorations, and leading per­sonalities of the Kriegsmarine. It also includes an excellent, introductory re­view of German naval history. Illus­trated with more than 300 photo­graphs, drawings, and maps, it should prove a useful reference to all students of the Atlantic war.

Vice Admiral Friedrich Ruge, Fed­eral German Navy (Retired), draws upon German records and postwar Soviet publications to evaluate The Soviets as Naval Opponents, 1941-1945. The result is an illuminating perspec­tive, from “the other side of the hill,” of the performance of the Soviet Navy in the only major war it has fought. It is tempting to wonder to what extent the deficiencies noted by Admiral Ruge, many of them of an institu­tional nature, have been corrected since the close of the conflict.

World War II is also the theme of Herman Wouk’s monumental War and Remembrance, perhaps the most ambitious novel yet to appear on the subject. Although designed to stand alone, it continues to chronicle the experiences of the characters intro­duced by the author's previous best seller, The Winds of War (1971). The emphasis, as befits a novel whose pro­tagonist is Navy Captain Victor (Pug) Henry, is on the sea war in the Pacific, but by also following the for­tunes of Pug’s family members, in­cluding a Jewish daughter-in-law trapped in Europe, Wouk manages to encompass the entire conflict. Another device by which the narrative is ex­panded is through the incorporation of selections from the postwar memoirs of a German general, which Pug trans­lates and edits for the U. S. Naval In­stitute’s Proceedings. Wouk’s research was meticulous, and naval readers will be especially interested in his charac­terizations of Admirals Halsey, Spruance, and Nimitz.

In past months, there have been signs that the nation may finally be ready to begin to reassess the trauma and tragedy summed up by the word “Vietnam.” Whether the change is simply because of the passage of time or whether it has been to an extent provoked by the course of events sub­sequent to the American withdrawal from Southeast Asia, where, contrary to some expectations, the killing did not stop, is an intriguing question. It may be, as a former prisoner of war in Vietnam remarked recently, that fu­ture historians will find the interven­tion of folksinger and erstwhile anti­war activist Joan Baez on behalf of the Boat People to be a symbolic watershed in the evolution of popular attitudes. Certainly the new college generation, to whom Vietnam is not a living memory and for whom it pos­sesses the fascination of a national guilty secret, shows a strong interest in learning just what happened there.

Thanks to the publication of The Pentagon Papers, the armed forces’ offi­cial histories, and the memoirs of so many key American and South Viet­namese participants, what happened has become painfully clear. No doubt additional details and an occasional revelation await us, but the main out­line of events appears to be firmly es­tablished. The crucial questions that remain to be determined are why it happened and whether or not it had to happen. Was the American attempt to support South Vietnam until it could become capable of defending itself an exercise in national self-deception, foreordained to failure, or was it a feasible strategy, ruined by faulty ex­ecution?

Admiral U. S. Grant Sharp answers the latter question affirmatively in Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retro­spect. As Commander in Chief, Pacific, from July 1964 through July 1968—the critical years of the Ameri­can war effort—Admiral Sharp ex­ercised overall supervision of U. S. operations in Vietnam. In his book, a memoir-raw-history, he argues that the timely and forceful application of American conventional air power could have brought North Vietnam to its knees by 1970. The idea that, by failing to exert more than a fraction of the military force at its disposal, the United States was the architect of its failure is, of course, not new. Conser­vative critics of graduated response expressed it throughout the war. But it demands renewed attention when advanced by so senior and strategically placed an officer.

The impact of the Vietnam War on the men who were called upon to fight it has also become a topic of national concern. The homecoming of Will Goodrich, a bumbling intellectual whose ultimate blunder has cost him a leg and his platoon leader his life, forms the conclusion of Fields of Fire, James Webb’s gripping novel of marines in Vietnam. Unlike the au­thors of so many combat novels and memoirs, Webb refrains from grind­ing an ideological axe. The purely per­sonal viewpoint of his narrative would be reminiscent of The Red Badge of Courage, except that Crane’s vision is limited to his anonymous soldier, whereas Webb deploys a diverse cast of well-realized characters, ranging from the tormented Goodrich (“Sen­ator”) to his protagonist, Lieutenant Robert E. Lee Hodges, Jr., to the chillingly competent Snake, psycho­pathic Phoney, the martinet Sergeant Angus Austin, and Dan, the Viet­namese Chieu-Hoi (a Vietcong defec­tor). Another difference is that, while Stephen Crane had never heard a shot fired in anger when he wrote The Red Badge of Courage, Jim Webb won the Navy Cross, the Silver Star, two Bronze Stars, and two Purple Hearts as a Marine Corps platoon leader and company commander in Vietnam.

It is easy for persons outside the naval profession to overlook the fact that the United States could not have projected its military power, however ineffectually, 3,000 miles across the Pacific to an East Asian fringe land without command of the sea. In light of the spectacular expansion of Soviet naval power in the last 15 years, that command can no longer be taken for granted, as it was in the two postwar decades, when the world ocean could be considered Mare nostrum. The ra­tionale behind the uses the Soviets make of their now global navy is natu­rally a matter of acute concern to Western naval analysts. One prevalent view is that the Soviets hold the prac­tice of gunboat diplomacy strictly subordinate to the maintenance of a strategic naval posture. The interpre­tation of Soviet Naval Diplomacy From The June War to Angola, by Bradford Dismukes and James McConnell, chal­lenges this hypothesis. Its authors as­sert that the Soviets have clearly dem­onstrated their appreciation of the political advantages that can be gained by naval presence. Their controversial contention has already sparked a de­bate on the pages of the Proceedings.

What could happen if diplo­macy—Soviet, naval, or otherwise—" should fail is the subject of a provoca­tive fictional history, The Third World War: August 1985, by General Sit John Hackett, former Commander- in-Chief of the British Army of the Rhine, and a group of other NATO generals and advisors. In theif scenario, the war begins when, after a period of mounting tensions, the Soviet Union invades Yugoslavia with the aim of installing an orthodox Communist government subservient to Moscow. With the consent of the Yugoslavs, U. S. Marines and ait'

^orne forces are landed at Fiume and jubljana as a show of force and soon find themselves in action with the Red Attny. Although American leaders cherish the hope that the conflict can ^e localized, the Kremlin reacts by inching the long-planned invasion Central Europe. The Soviet thrust, ^lntended to shatter the NATO defenses ‘ⁿ ten days or less, is contained after fitter conventional fighting. The ^oviet submarine fleet’s attempt to ^Sever the North Atlantic sea lines of communication is also defeated. Their plans frustrated, the Soviets adopt a csperate policy of nuclear blackmail, calling for negotiations and at the ^^arne time obliterating Birmingham, ⁿgland, in what is carefully an- ⁿ°Unced as a single, exemplary nuclear ^strike. The West retaliates by atomiz­es Minsk, at which point the War­saw p_{act countr};_eS) unwilling to be ^engulfed in a holocaust of mutual as- ®^Ured destruction, begin to break away ^r°m the Soviet Union. Several of the ^°n-Russian nationalities within the ^ °viet Union do the same; the Polit- ^Ur° is toppled; and the war comes luietly to an end as the Soviet ^frionolith dissolves. So brief a sum- ^rtlary cannot, of course, convey the ^Sophistication of General Hackett’s

P^resentation.

^ Comforting as the outcome of this . ypothetical conflict may be to readers g. NATO lands (inhabitants of ^lrrr|ingham excluded), it is expressly C'oicated on the happy circumstance ^at 'n the years between 1980 and their countries have taken steps ^remedy their marked military in- ^efI°rity to the Soviet Union, espe- ^lally in conventional forces.

Another fictional Soviet-American ^ITled confrontation, ending short of ‘neral war, provides the climax of g⁰ d Is the Sea, by Captain Edward L. ^^each. I_n this book, which completes ’■^ril°gy formed by his earlier best- q ^ers> Hun Silent, Run Deep (1955) and _t ^{Ust on} the Sea (1972), he follows pro- gonist Rich Richardson, a captain ■      ’ >nto the nuclear navy. The time,

^0ugh unspecified, is obviously the _d^drly 1960s. Rich's interview with the ^lrector of the Navy’s nuclear pro- ^arn> “sharp-featured, hawk-nosed, ^12ened little” Vice Admiral Bright- ing, the rigorous program he under­goes at the training site outside Idaho Falls, and the general technological background of the book have, as readers of Beach’s novels have come to expect, an air of absolute ver­isimilitude. The action begins when Richardson’s submarine encounters an extremely aggressive Soviet submarine under the Arctic ice cap. To divulge how it ends would be a crime.

Any survey such as this would be incomplete without mentioning the current crop of naval annuals. Jane's Fighting Ships 1979-80 continues in its familiar tradition of excellence under the editorship of Captain John E. Moore, Royal Navy (Retired). It re­tains the format established by a major revision in 1977. Its Italian counter­part, the Almanacco Navale 1979, edited by G. Giorgerini and A. Nani, also deserves note. A handsome book, more compact than Jane’s, its value to foreign users is enhanced by a lami­nated insert card providing transla­tions of naval terms into English, German, Spanish, and other lan­guages. Both volumes treat naval air­craft and weapons as well as ships. Still a third, more specialized work is Brassey’s Fast Attack Craft, compiled and edited by John Marriott (the nom de plume of a retired Royal Navy offi­cer). The types of vessels it covers, ranging from 1,000-ton corvettes to 30-feet patrol boats, have become the mainstay of most of the world s smaller navies and are of considerable interest to the larger navies. Introduc­tory chapters on employment, con­struction, and characteristics are fol­lowed by detailed, class-by-class de­scriptions.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Because the Naval In­stitute Press publishes books in the naval affairs field, we always run the risk of appearing to have a conflict of interest when we select Naval Institute books for inclusion in this feature. This year, Jack Sweetman, our Associate Editor for Books and author of the Notable Naval Books feature, made the book selection process more complicated than in recent years by writing a truly notable naval book—The U. S. Naval Academy: An Illustrated History—which was published by the Naval Institute Press. Failure to recognize

his book in this annual review would be an injustice to you, our readers, and to him.

Jack Sweetman has written an entertaining history of a Navy institution for which no up-to-date history existed. His is the complete and well-illustrated story of the Naval Academy—including the highs and lows. To quote Arleigh Burke: "Professor Sweetman has built this exciting and remarkable account with painstaking care to include not only how things evolved but why. Anyone interested in our navy will find it fascinating read­ing. ”

Admiral Bradley A. Fiske and the American Navy

Paolo E. Coletta. Lawrence, KS.: The Regents Press of Kansas. 306 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $25.00 ($22.50).

Almanacco Navale 1979

G. Giorgerini and A. Nani. Genova, Italy: Istituto Idrografico della Marina, 1979. 805 pp. Illus. Ind. Approx. $50.00.

|3] The American Flying Boat:

An Illustrated History

Capt. Richard C. Knott, USN. Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 262 pp. Illus. Bib. Ind. $29.95 ($23.95).

The American Naval Heritage in Brief (Second Edition)

Paolo E. Coletta. Washington, D.C.: University Press of America, 1978. 630 pp. Bib. Ind. $15.50 ($13.95).

Big Gun Monitors: The History of the Design, Construction and Operation of the Royal Navy’s Monitors

Ian Buxton. Tynemouth, England: World Ship Society-Trident Books, 1979. 215 pp. Illus. Maps. Bib. Ind. Approx. $25.00.

Cold Is the Sea

Capt. Edward L. Beach, USN (Ret.). New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1978. 348 pp. $9.95 ($8.96).

[t] Conway’s All the World’s Fighting Ships, 1860-1905

Robert Gardiner, Editorial Director. Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 440 pp. Illus. Ind. $35.00 ($28.00).

[J] Double-Edged Secrets: U. S. Naval Intelligence in the Pacific during World War II

Capt. W. J. Holmes, USNR (Ret.). Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 240 pp. Illus. Maps. Ind. $11.95 ($9.55).

Famous American Admirals

Clark G. Reynolds. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1978. 446 pp. Ulus. Append. Ind. $16.95 ($15.26).

Fast Attack Craft

John Marriott. New York: Crane, Russak, 1979­263 pp. Ulus. Append. Ind. $24.50 ($22.05).

[3] Fast Fighting Boats 1870-1945: Their Design, Construction and Use

Fregattenkapifan Harald Fock, Federal German Navy. Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1978. 304 pp. Illus. Append. $28.95 ($23.15).

Fields of Fire

James Webb. Englewood Cliffs, NJ.: Prentice-Hall, 1978. 344 pp. $9.95 ($8.96).

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[3] The Fleet Submarine in the U. S. Navy: A Design and Construction History

Cdr. John D. Alden, USN (Ret.). Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 290 pp. Illus. Append. Bib. Ind. $28.95 ($23-15).

Flugzeugtr’ager der U. S. Navy. Band I: Flottenflugzeugtr’ager (Aircraft Carriers of the U. S. Navy. Volume I: Fleet Carriers)

Stefan Terzibaschitsch. Munich: Bernard & Graefe, 1978. 360 pp. Illus. Append. DM 86 (Approx. $47.30).

]3] The German Navy in World War Two: A Reference Guide to the Kriegsmarine, 1935-1945 Jak P. Mallmann Showed, Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 224 pp. Illus. Maps. Ind. $19.95 ($15.95).

Jane’s Fighting Ships, 1979-80

Capt. John E. Moore, Royal Navy (Ret.), Editor. New York: Franklin Watts, 1979- 836 pp. Illus. Append. Ind. $99.50 ($89.55).

Q In Praise of Sailors: A Nautical Anthology of Art, Poetry, and Prose

Herbert W. Warden, III. New York: Harry N. Abrams, 1978. 299 pp. Illus. $45.00 ($36.00).

W Soviet Naval Diplomacy From the June War to Angola

Bradford Dismukes and James McConnell, Editors. Elmsford, NY.: Pergammon Press, 1979- 450 pp. Illus. Maps. Bib. $25.00 ($20.00).

[3] The Soviets as Naval Opponents, 1941-1945

VAdm. Friedrich Ruge, Federal German Navy (Ret.). Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979- 210 pp. Illus. Maps. Bib. Ind. $16.95 ($13.55).

H Strategy for Defeat: Vietnam in Retrospect

Adm. U. S. Grant Sharp, USN (Ret.). San Rafael, CA.: Presidio Press, 1978. 324 pp. Illus. Maps. Append. Ind. $12.95 ($10.35).

H The Third World War

General Sir John Hackett and other Top-Ranking NATO Generals and Advisors. New York: Macmillan, 1979- 368 pp. Maps. Append. Ind. $12.95 ($10.35).

H Ultra Goes to War: The First Account of World War II’s Greatest Secret Based on Official Documents

Ronald Lewin. New York: McGraw-Hill,

1978. 398 pp. Illus. Append. Bib. Ind. $12.95 ($10.35).

31 The U. S. Naval Academy:

An Illustrated History

Jack Sweetman. Annapolis, MD.: Naval Institute Press, 1979. 289 pp. Illus. Maps. Append. Bib. Ind. Deluxe edition, $25.95 ($20.75); regular, $19.95 ($15.95).

War and Remembrance

Herman Wouk. Boston: Little, Brown, 1978. 1,042 pp. $15.00 ($13.50).