Naval Historical Foundation Books Available for Review Last Updated: 07.09.2021 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 for One, One for All: Beyond the Sea: An Event Argentine Navy Operations Group Thriller during the By David Lynn Golemon · 2017 Falklands/Malvinas War By Dr. Jorge Boveda · 2021 The Soviet battle cruiser Simbirsk, which launched in June 1940 and was All for One, One for All provides a reported sunk in 1944 with the loss of contemporary perspective of the all hands, is still sailing the open sea... baptism of fire of one of the oldest, most resourceful and well-trained war fighting institutions in Latin America: Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Adventure fiction, the Argentine Navy. It offers a rare insight into the War story relationship between institutional culture and modern warfare, with specific reference to the Falklands/Malvinas War of 1982, and is a case study of how a very modest navy with very few naval platforms The Captain Class Frigates in engaged in a limited war against a major naval power the Second World War and nevertheless was able to make its mark. By Donald Collingwood · 1999/2020 ________________________________________ The Battle of the Atlantic was Winston Churchill's greatest of concern during the Against the Tide Imperial: Second World War. By 1943 new tactics The Struggle for Ceylon and technology, developed out of bitter By James Young · 2020 experience, combined with the effect of long range maritime patrol aircraft were beginning to tip the balance July 1943. When the United Kingdom in the Allies' favour. ... was torn asunder under a hail of ________________________________________ German firebombs and nerve gas, the distant outpost of Ceylon was an Crash Boat: Rescue and Peril afterthought for both Allies and Axis. in the Pacific During World Now, one year after King George VI's death, the small War II island off-of India becomes center stage for a titanic By Earl McCandlish & George D. confrontation. Against the Tide Imperial is the third Jepson · 2021 novel of the Usurper's War series. As Allied and Axis warriors are faced with a completely different war than This is the compelling story of an the one planned for decades, their actions will chart a American crash boat crewed by new course for the Greatest Generation. unknown heroes during World War II in the South ________________________________________ Pacific, whose dramatic rescues of downed pilots and clandestine missions off Japanese-held islands were done at great peril ... 1 Crisis at the Chesapeake: The on the role she played as part of the Grand Fleet in time Royal Navy and the Struggle of war. ... for America 1775-1783 ________________________________________ By Quintin Barry · 2021 The Glorious First of June By the end of 1780, the war for By Mark Lardas & Edouard American independence appeared to be Groult· 2019 approaching a stalemate. After five years of war, Washington’s armies remained in the field. Illustrated throughout with stunning Once France, and then Spain, joined the war, Lord full-color artwork, this is the full Sandwich as First Lord of the Admiralty was faced with story of the only fleet action during a constant struggle to balance the forces needed at home the Age of Fighting Sail fought in the and overseas, while facing constant hostile pressure from open ocean, hundreds of miles from shore. Taking place the opposition. over the course of a month, the inevitable battle was to be a close-run affair, with both sides claiming victory. _______________________________ To the French, it was le Bataille du 13 prairial, a notable day in their new, scientific Revolutionary calendar. For Dead Man Launch the British, it was the Glorious First of June. By John Gobbell · 2017 ____________________________________ "John J. Gobbell is the John Le Carré German Battleship of Naval thrillers." --John Lehman, Helgoland: Detailed in the Former Secretary of the Navy. The Original Builders' Plans year is 1968, and global upheaval is the By Aidan Dodson · 2019 norm… This book is the latest in a series Genres: Thriller, War story, Spy fiction, Nautical fiction based entirely on original draughts ________________________________ which depict famous warships in an unprecedented degree of detail. Using the latest scanning First to Go: The History of the technology to make digital copies of the highest quality USMC Combat it reproduces complete sets in full color with many Correspondents Association close-ups and enlargements that make every aspect clear By Jack T. Paxton · 2018 and comprehensible. The result is a novel form of anatomy that will be a revelation to any warship The Marine Corps Combat enthusiast… Correspondents trace their history to ________________________________________ the pioneering work started by Brigadier Gen. Robert L. Denig, Sr., Guidelines for the Leader who began Denig's Demons in WWII. Never forgetting and the Commander that they were riflemen first and writers, photographers, By Gen. Bruce C. Clark et al, second, the CCs have gone from the highly trained · 1963/2021 professional newsmen of the 1940s to the dedicated trained specialists that followed. Written by the Army’s premier trainer ________________________________________ of the twentieth century, this is a wide-ranging collection of principles From Scapa to Jutland: The and maxims to guide the building, Story of HMS Caroline ... training, and leading of any organization, with a focus By John Allison · 2019 on the individuals who make up that organization. Clarke intended the book to enlighten and instruct Amid the twists and turns of her leaders, and those who aspire to leadership, in every survival to this day, the story of the profession and every walk of life. Thoughtful as well as light cruiser HMS Caroline spans a concrete, pithy and often conversational, Clarke’s book century and more. This book focuses resonates today. ________________________________________ 2 celebrated carriers and battles, a naval aviation pioneer, Homecomings Dixie Kiefer died in a stateside plane crash two months By Laura Bogan · 2019 after the war ended. The U.S. Navy Flight Demonstration Squadron, better known as the Blue Angel, is one Lions of the Sky of the most iconic and respected By Francesco Chierici · ??? aerobatics teams in the world. For years, photographer Laura Bogan has been chronicling the Blues as they In the world of fighter pilots, the return to Pensacola, the team's beautiful seaside home on most alpha of the alpha, Florida's Gulf Coast. competition is everything and the ________________________________________ stakes are impossibly high. A Top Gun for the new millennium, Hunter in the Stream: A Riley LIONS OF THE SKY propels us Fitzhugh Novel into a realm in which friendship, By Terry Mort · 2021 loyalty, and skill are tested, battles won and lost in an instant, and lives irrevocably changed Riley Fitzhugh goes through officer in the time it takes to plug in your afterburners. training and is assigned to PC 475, a new anti-U-boat vessel stationed in Genres: Thriller, Adventure fiction, War story Key West. The 475 is nicknamed __________________________________________ Nameless by her crew because patrol craft vessels were only given numbers… The Medal with a Heart ________________________________________ By Karen Kulinski & Karen Gruntman · 2018 The Indestructible Man: Every medal tells a story of The Incredible True Story bravery, hard work, great of the Legendary Sailor achievement. But few people the Japanese Couldn’t Kill know how one of America's greatest military awards, By Don Keith & David Rocco The Purple Heart, came to be. The Medal With A Heart · 2021 tells this story, and it begins in 1782 with George Washington and the Revolutionary War. Dixie Kiefer’s reputation for _____________________________________ durability began at the U.S. Naval Academy, where he broke an The Making of Paris: The ankle and shattered a kneecap Story of How Paris Evolved while playing football. After anti- from a Fishing Village into submarine duty in World War I, he became a pioneer of the World’s Most Beautiful naval aviation and had an elbow shattered by a plane that City buzzed him as a joke. Kiefer’s first World War II By Russell Kelley · 2021 assignment was executive officer of the carrier Yorktown. He earned the Distinguished Service The Making of Paris is the story of Medal at the Coral Sea and the Navy Cross at Midway, how Paris evolved from a small where—as his ship was sinking—he suffered severe fishing village on an island in the middle of the Seine burns to his hands and a compound fracture of his foot. River into the City of Light. After recuperating, Kiefer took command of ______________________________________ the Ticonderoga. In January 1945, Japanese kamikazes struck the carrier, killing and wounding hundreds. Kiefer broke his arm and was struck by more than sixty pieces of shrapnel—but remained on the bridge for twelve hours, earning the Silver Star. Victim of ten wounds in two wars, veteran of some of the U.S. Navy’s most 3 into previously unexplored and unexploited depths, The Medic: A World War II developing new capabilities and opening a new frontier. Story of Imprisonment, ________________________________________ Hope, and Survival By Claire E. Swedberg · 2021 The German Armoured Cruiser SMS Blücher Henry Chamberlain was one of the By Marsden Samuel · 2018 longest-term prisoners of war in World War II. Taken prisoner in the The SMS Blücher was the last American surrender at Bataan in armored cruiser built by the German April 1942, he remained in Japanese Empire. She was constructed to captivity until September 1945.