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Naval Historical Foundation Books Available for Review Last Updated: 8.23.2020 You may browse our previous book reviews at: https://www.navyhistory.org/category/bookreview/ Please see our review guidelines at: https://www.navyhistory.org/publications/naval-history-book-reviews/ Please send any inquiries to [email protected] New additions are highlighted in YELLOW _________________________________________________________________________________________ All of Which I Saw: With the US Marine Corps in Iraq – September 28, 2019 Battlecruiser Repulse: by Lucian Read (Author), Dan Detailed in ... Rather (Foreword), Congressman Seth Book by John P. Roberts Moulton (Contributor) Description The technical details of All of Which I Saw captures the British warships were United States Marine Corps recorded in a set of plans during some of the most produced by the builders on dramatic and important moments of the Iraq War. The completion of every ship. book takes the viewer across Known as the 'as fitted' the Pacific aboard ship, into the Battle of Najaf and Second general arrangements, these drawings represented Battle of Fallujah—where Read took his now-iconic the exact appearance and fitting of the ship as it photograph of a wounded Sergeant Major Bradley Kasal— entered service. ... Google Books and beyond into the bloody streets of Ramadi and the Originally published: June 2019 darkness of the Haditha massacre . only to return to the Author: John P. Roberts light of homecoming. During the Iraq War, no other photojournalist spent more time with the Marines, and this is ________________________________________ a singular, stunning, and indispensable record of the conflict and the Marine Corps at war. Throughout, the book also contains Read’s own contemporaneous accounts that tell the Beyond the Sea: An Event Group stories behind the photos and capture the grim truths about Thriller the war in all its violence, tragedy, heroism, and sacrifice. Book by David Lynn Golemon ________________________________________ Description The Soviet battle cruiser Simbirsk, British Naval Weapons of World which launched in June 1940 and War II, Vol. I. was reported sunk in 1944 with the Book loss of all hands, is still sailing the open sea. Description ... Google Books John Lambert was a renowned naval Originally published: June 13, 2017 draughtsman whose plans were Author: David Lynn Golemon highly valued for their accuracy and Preceded by: The Traveler: An Event Group detail by model makers and enthusiasts. By the time Thriller of his death in 2016 he had produced over 850 Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure sheets of drawings many of which have never been fiction, War story published. ... Google Books ________________________________________ Hardcover – June 10, 2019 by Norman Friedman (Editor) 1 The Captain Class Frigates Genres: Thriller, War story, Spy fiction, Nautical in the Second World War fiction ______________________________________ Description "The Battle of the Atlantic was Winston Churchill's Encyclopedia of Armed area greatest of concern Forces Football: The during the Second World Complete History of the War. By 1943 new tactics Glory Years and technology, developed Book by John Daye out of bitter experience, combined with the Originally effect of long range maritime patrol aircraft published: September 2014 were beginning to tip the balance in the Allies' Author: John Daye favour. ... Google Books Originally published: 1998 ________________________________________ Author: Donald Collingwood First to Go: The History of ________________________________________ the USMC Combat Correspondents Association The Dauntless in Battle Paperback – February 15, Book by Peter Charles Smith 2018 Description by Jack T. Paxton (Author, The Douglas Dauntless was a Editor), Capt. USMC (Ret.) Second World War American (Editor) naval scout plane and dive bomber that saw active service during the course of this conflict The Marine Corps Combat and beyond, before being retired Correspondents trace their history to the in 1959. ... Google Books pioneering work started by Brigadier Gen. Originally published: March 30, 2019 Robert L. Denig, Sr., who began Denig's Demons in WWII. Never forgetting that they Author: Peter Charles Smith ________________________________________ were riflemen first and writers, photograpers, et al, second, the CCs have gone from the highly trained professional newsmen of the 1940s to Dead Man Launch: A Todd the dedicated trained specialists that followed. ________________________________________ Ingram Novel ... Novel by John Gobbell Description From Scapa to Jutland: The "John J. Gobbell is the John Le Story of HMS Caroline ... Carré of Naval thrillers." --John Book by John Allison Lehman, Former Secretary of Description the NavyThe year is 1968, and Amid the twists and turns of her global upheaval is the norm. As survival to this day, the story of the war rages in Southeast Asia, the light cruiser HMS Caroline a US traitor ... Google Books spans a century and more. This book focuses on the role she played as part of the Grand Fleet in time of war. Originally published: September 26, 2017 ... Google Books Author: John Gobbell Originally published: 2019 Author: John Allison 2 ________________________________________ The Glorious First of June: Fleet Homecomings Battle in the Reign of Terror Book by Laura Bogan Book by Sam Willis Description Description The U.S. Navy Flight France, early summer 1794. The Demonstration French Revolution has been hijacked Squadron, better known by the extreme Jacobins and is in the as the Blue Angel, is one grip of The Terror. ... Google Books of the most ic onic and respected aerobatics teams Originally published: 2011 in the world. For years, photographer Laura Bogan Author: Sam Willis has been chronicling the Blues as they return to ________________________________________ Pensacola, the team's beautiful seaside home on Florida's Gulf Coast. ... Google Books German Battleship Originally published: March 5, 2019 Helgoland: Detailed in Author: Laura Bogan the Original Builders' ________________________________________ Plans Hardcover – How Carriers Fought: Carrier April 1, 2019 Operations in World War II by Aidan Dodson This book is the latest in a series based entirely on In November 1921 the first purpose- original draughts which built aircraft carrier was launched by the Japanese, followed a year later by depict famous warships the launch of the British Hermes. in an unprecedented ... Google Books degree of detail. Using the latest scanning Originally published: July 19, 2018 technology to make digital copies of the highest Author: Lars Celander quality it reproduces complete sets in full color with many close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear and comprehensible. The result is a Glasgow Museum the novel form of anatomy that will be a revelation to Ship Models: ... any warship enthusiast … Book by Emily Malcolm ________________________________________ and Michael R. Harrison Description Holding the Line: The Naval Air This publication will be Campaign In Korea the first full catalog of Book by Thomas McKelvey Glasgow Museums' internationally important Cleaver collection of ship models. ... Google Books Description Originally published: December 2019 Naval and air power were crucial to Authors: Emily Malcolm, Michael R. Harrison the United Nations' success in the Korean War, as it sought to negate the overwhelming Chinese advantage in manpower. In what became known as the 'long hard slog', naval aviators sought to slow and cut off communist forces and support troops on the ground. ... Google Books Originally published: March 5, 2019 Author: Thomas McKelvey Cleaver 3 Kamikaze: Japan's Last Bid Book by Christopher Jon for Victory Lamb Book by Adrian Stewart Description President Gerald R. Ford's In this fascinating book the 1975 decision to use force author examines the after the Cambodians seized Japanese concept of the SS Mayaguez merchant Kamikaze, the deliberate ship is an important case study self-sacrifice of life in the in national security decision cause of victory. ... Google Books making. ... Google Books Originally published: July 30, 2020 Originally published: 2018 Author: Adrian Stewart Author: Christopher Jon Lamb ______________________________________ Lions of the Sky Medal with a Heart Book by Francesco Chierici Book by Karen In the world of fighter pilots, the Kulinski most alpha of the alpha, competition Description is everything and the stakes are Every medal tells a impossibly high. A Top Gun for the story of bravery, hard new millennium, LIONS OF THE SKY propels us into a realm in which work, great friendship, loyalty, and skill are achievement. But few people know how one of tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives America's greatest military awards, The Purple irrevocably changed in the time it takes to plug in your Heart, came to be. The Medal With A Heart tells afterburners. this story, and it begins in 1782 with George Genres: Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story Washington and the Revolutionary War. Google ________________________________________ Books - Originally published: September 25, 2018 Author: Karen Kulinski Illustrator: Karen Gruntman A Marine Artist's Portfolio: ________________________________________ The Nautical Paintings of Susanne Fournais Book by Susanne Fournais Napoleon's Admirals: Flag Grube Officers of the Arc de Description Triomphe, 1789-1815 Susanne Fournaise Grube, Book by Richard Humble has been painting