November 21, 2008 



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Book Review Editor: Robert Blair

Reviewers: Robert Blair, David Shirlaw, Mike Potter, Jan Potter, Dr. William S Dudley, AD Baker III.

  Revolt of the Admirals The Fight for Naval Aviation 1945-1950 by Jeffrey G Barlow
Aircraft Carriers The World's Greatest Naval Vessels and Their Aircraft by Chris Bishop & Chris Chant
  Blunders & Disasters at Sea by David Blackmore
  Splashdown NASA and the Navy by Don Blair
  Fastest in the World The Saga of Canada's Revolutionary Hydrofoils by John Boileau
US Naval Aviation 1946-1999 by Martin W Bowman
Jig How A Story of the US Navy Armed Guard During World War II by Roy W Brown
Ship Strike Pacific by John R Bruning Jr
  At Close Quarters PT Boats in the US Navy by Robert J. Bulkley Jr
True Believer by Scott W Carmichael 
Yorktown Class Aircraft Carriers by Roger Chesneau & AD Baker III
The Battleship USS New Jersey - From Birth to Berth by Carol Comegno
Combat Loaded Across the Pacific on the USS Tate by Thomas E Crew 
  A War of a Different Kind Military Force and America's Search for Homeland Security by Stephen M Duncan
  Building the Steam Navy by David Evans
Terror, Afghanistan and America's New Way of War by Norman Friedman 
US Amphibious Ships & Craft An Illustrated Design History by Norman Friedman & AD Baker III
  Sweet Pea at War: A History of the USS Portland by William Thomas Generous Jr 
USS Charles Carroll APA 28 An Amphibious History of World War II by Kenneth H Goldman 
  Stray Voltage War in the Information Age by Wayne Michael Hall
Carrier Clash The Invasion of Guadalcanal & The Battle of the Eastern Solomons August 1942 by Eric Hammel
Carrier Strike The Battle of the Santa Cruz Islands October 1942 by Eric Hammel
  Destroyer An Anthology of First-hand accounts of the War at Sea 1939-1945 Edited by Ian Hawkins
The Fighting Flying Boat A History of the Martin PBM Mariner by Richard A Hoffman
Good Shipmates The Restoration of the Liberty Ship John W Brown Volume One: 1942-1994 by Ernest F Imhoff 
  SS Jeremiah O'Brien The History of a Liberty Ship From the Battle of the Atlantic to the 21st Century by Capt. Walter W Jaffee
Adak The Rescue of Alfa Foxtrot 586 by Andrew C.A. Jampoler
Thirteen Desperate Hours - A Liberty Ship's crew and their Navy Armed Guard fight for survival while grounded on a Japanese-held island by Marill Johnson
 

Maritime Security A Practical Guide by Steven Jones

Riding on Luck The Saga of the USS Lang (DD-399) by Rex A. Knight 
Ships for Victory - A History of Shipbuilding Under the US Maritime Commission in World War II by Frederic C Lane
Commander in Chief Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants And Their War by Eric Larrabee 
The Coast Guard in World War I An Untold Story by Alex R Larzelere
 

Unheard, Unseen... by Daniel Lloyd Little

  Tragedy at Honda One of America's Greatest Naval Disasters by Charles A Lockwood & Hans Christian Adamson
Resurrection Salvaging the Battle Fleet at Pearl Harbor by Daniel Madsen
  Midway Magic by Scott McGaugh
  Sink all the Shipping there by Fraser M McKee

Swift, Silent, and Deadly - Marine Amphibious Reconnaissance in the Pacific, 1942–1945 by Bruce F. Meyers 

John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography by Samuel Eliot Morison
The American Battleship by Samuel L Morison & Norman Polmar  
  Hunters in the Shallows A History of the PT Boat by Curtis L Nelson
Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century by Michael A. Palmer 
Court of Inquiry "Neglecting the Possible" - US Navy Mistakes by Benjamin S Persons
Cold War Submarines The Design and Construction of US and Soviet Submarines by Norman Polmar & KJ Moore 
Valley of Decision The Siege of Khe Sanh by John Prados & Ray W Stubbe 
The Complete Book of US Special Operations Forces by Fred J Pushies
Weapons of the Navy SEALS by Fred J Pushies
  Dark Victory by Jeffrey Record
Patriots and Heroes True Stories of the US Merchant Marine in World War II by Gerald Reminick 
Mighty Midgets at War The Saga of the LCS (L) Ships from Iwo Jima to Vietnam by Robin L. Rielly 
Overdue and Presumed Lost The Story of the USS Bullhead by Martin Sheridan
Black Sailor, White Navy by John Darrell Sherwood 
Inside the Iron Works How Grumman's Glory Days Faded by George M Skurla and William H Gregory
Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm’s Way by Douglas V. Smith
The Golden Thirteen Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers Edited by Paul Stillwell Foreword by Colin L. Powell
Lest We Forget: The Naming of Military Installations by Linda D Swink 
  The Battle of the Atlantic by Andrew Williams
Amirs, Admirals & Desert Sailors by David F Winkler 
Inside the Danger Zone by Harold Lee Wise 
Hunter-Killer US Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic by William T Y'Blood
   
 
THE BLACK PIT...AND BEYOND
By J. Gordon Mumford
ISBN 1-894263-19-7
General Store Publishing House
Combat Loaded Across the Pacific on the USS Tate 
By Thomas E Crew. Texas A & M University Press ISBN 9781585445561. 

 

 



 

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