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(0)Craig L Symonds
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Craig L. Symonds' World War II at Sea offers a definitive naval history of the Second World War presenting the chronology of the naval war, from The London Conference of 1930 to the surrender in Tokyo Bay in 1945, on a global scale for the first time."--Provided by publisher.
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xvi, 474 pages) : illustrations, maps
Language
English
Description
"Nearly fifty years ago, as a new assistant professor in the History Department at the U.S. Naval Academy, I shared an office suite with Elmer B. "Ned" Potter. Ned had taught at the Naval Academy since before the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He was also the co-editor with Chester Nimitz of the book Sea Power (1961), which we all used as a text in the required naval history course that I subsequently taught at the Academy for thirty years. Ned knew...
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
[2016]
Physical Desc
x, 136 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"The United States Navy today is the greatest and most powerful sea force in the world. But it was not always so. In this book, Craig L. Symonds traces the uneven historical path that transformed the U.S. Navy from a handful of small sailing craft in the late eighteenth century into a world superpower. The Navy's story is not merely, or even essentially, one of simple increase over time from small beginnings to global behemoth, but rather the Navy's...
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
xxiii, 1230 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
An anthology of excerpts from the four-volume classic "Battles and Leaders of the Civil War" features first-hand recollections by the Civil War's commanders and subordinates on both sides, with commentary by such leading scholars as James McPherson and Joan Waugh.
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
510 pages : illustrations, maps ; 31 cm + 1 CD-ROM (4 3/4 in.)
Language
English
Description
Collects the complete New York Times coverage of the events in the Civil War, including accounts of battles, personal stories, and political actions, and provides cultural and historical perspective on the published issues.
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