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U.S. NAVAL ACADEMY

Those Other Grads

By Lieutenant Commander Thomas J. Cutler, U.S. Navy (Retired)
April 1994
During national emergencies, the U.S. Naval Academy has trained reserve midshipmen for war. One of their own pays tribute to ...
Allied Coastal Forces of World War II
Volume 1: Fairmile Designs and U.S. Submarine Chasers
By John Lambert and Al Ross
The major contribution made by coastal forces to the Allied war effort has had surprisingly little coverage in the literature of World War II. Motor torpedo boats, PT boats, motor gunboats, launches, and submarine chasers served with distinction throughout the war, and in every theater. They performed invaluable service as patrol boats, convoy escorts, minelayers and minesweepers, harbor defense vessels ...
Available Formats: Hardcover
Strategic Theories
By Admiral Raoul Castex, French Navy; Selections translated and edited, with an introduction by Eugenia C. Kiesling
Admiral Raoul Castex is France’s most important modern naval strategist. Military historian Eugenia Kiesling offers the essence of Castex’s original five volume study, Théories Stratégiques, in a useful one-volume abridgment and a very readable translation. It emphasizes the admiral’s method of strategic analysis while omitting most of the historical narrative. Included are chapters defining strategy and relating it to policy ...
Available Formats: Softcover