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This book introduces the U.S. Navy, describing historic beginnings, training, types of ships, role in wars, special forces, and missions.
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Although previously undervalued for their strategic impact because they represented only a small percentage of total forces, the Union and Confederate navies were crucial to the outcome of the Civil War. In War on the Waters, James M. McPherson has crafted an enlightening, at times harrowing, and ultimately thrilling account of the war's naval campaigns and their military leaders. McPherson recounts how the Union navy's blockade of the Confederate...
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Chronicles the history of American submarine espionage and discusses how submarines were used to tap underwater telephone cables in Russia, how the Navy might have been able to save the men on the USS Scorpion, and how the fight between the CIA and the Navy almost ruined one of the most important American undersea missions.
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Journalist Evan Thomas takes us inside the naval war in theSouth Pacific...He follows four men throughout: Admiral William "Bull" Halsey, the American fleet commander; Admiral Takeo Kurita, the Japanese battleship commander; Admiral Matome Ugaki, commander of and last of the Kamikazes; and Commander Ernest Evans, who led his destroyer on the last great charge in the last great naval battle in history."-- cover.
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