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Book Synopsis Sailor Historian by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book Sailor Historian written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1989 with total page 431 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thiry-four selections that best represent Morison's scope, depth, and vigor as a writer and explorer. Samuel Morison, a Harvard professor for 25 years, was recipient of the Pulitzer Prize and the Bancroft Award.
Book Synopsis Sailor Historian by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book Sailor Historian written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hello Sailor! written by Paul Baker and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-10-23 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When gays had to be closeted, ships were the only places where homosexual men could not only be out but also camp. And on some liners to the sun and the New World, queens and butches had a ball. They sashayed and minced their way across the world's oceans. Never before has the story been told of the masses. These are the thousands of queer seafarers, mainly stewards, who sometimes even outnumbered the straight men in the catering departments of ships that were household names and the pride of the British fleet. Hello Sailor! uniquely shows what it was like to be queer at sea at a time when land meant straightness.
Book Synopsis A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy by : Thomas J Cutler
Download or read book A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy written by Thomas J Cutler and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2005-01-15 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today's sailors have too little appreciation of their heritage. To counter this problem, Thomas J. Cutler has compiled a history of our naval heritage in the form of A Sailor's History of the U.S. Navy. The work is unique in two important ways. First, it is written thematically rather than chronologically. This allows recent history to be blended with more distant (but important) events in ways that will reinforce the timelessness as well as the timeliness of the U.S. Navy, thereby having a greater appeal to today's sailor. There are a number of themes being used—the most obvious are manifested in chapters with the themes of "honor," "courage," and "commitment," but others serve as useful vehicles as well; for example, there is a chapter called "What's in a Name?" that briefly discusses how ships have been/are named and then uses the many ships that have carried the name ""Enterprise"" as the theme for presenting significant portions of the Navy's history. The other unique characteristic of this history is that it focuses wherever possible on the roles of ALL sailors rather than just the officers. That is not to say that Jones and Decatur are not there, but that the emphasis is along the lines of "the crew of the Bon Homme Richard fought on into the night..." rather than "Jones fought..." Also, there are plenty of individual sailor heroes who can stand alongside the Perrys and the Farraguts (Boatswain's Mate First Class Williams who won the Medal of Honor in Vietnam, Dorie Miller of Pearl Harbor fame, Gunner's Mate Third Class Paul Henry Carr at the battle off Samar, etc.). Some emphasis upon what it was like to be a sailor (working and living conditions) at different times is included as well.
Book Synopsis Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy by : Nicholas E. Reynolds
Download or read book Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy written by Nicholas E. Reynolds and published by HarperCollins. This book was released on 2017-03-14 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The extraordinary untold story of Ernest Hemingway's dangerous secret life in espionage A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • A finalist for the William E. Colby Military Writers' Award "IMPORTANT" (Wall Street Journal) • "FASCINATING" (New York Review of Books) • "CAPTIVATING" (Missourian) A riveting international cloak-and-dagger epic ranging from the Spanish Civil War to the liberation of Western Europe, wartime China, the Red Scare of Cold War America, and the Cuban Revolution, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy reveals for the first time Ernest Hemingway’s secret adventures in espionage and intelligence during the 1930s and 1940s (including his role as a Soviet agent code-named "Argo"), a hidden chapter that fueled both his art and his undoing. While he was the historian at the esteemed CIA Museum, Nicholas Reynolds, a longtime American intelligence officer, former U.S. Marine colonel, and Oxford-trained historian, began to uncover clues suggesting Nobel Prize-winning novelist Ernest Hemingway was deeply involved in mid-twentieth-century spycraft -- a mysterious and shocking relationship that was far more complex, sustained, and fraught with risks than has ever been previously supposed. Now Reynolds's meticulously researched and captivating narrative "looks among the shadows and finds a Hemingway not seen before" (London Review of Books), revealing for the first time the whole story of this hidden side of Hemingway's life: his troubling recruitment by Soviet spies to work with the NKVD, the forerunner to the KGB, followed in short order by a complex set of secret relationships with American agencies. Starting with Hemingway's sympathy to antifascist forces during the 1930s, Reynolds illuminates Hemingway's immersion in the life-and-death world of the revolutionary left, from his passionate commitment to the Spanish Republic; his successful pursuit by Soviet NKVD agents, who valued Hemingway's influence, access, and mobility; his wartime meeting in East Asia with communist leader Chou En-Lai, the future premier of the People's Republic of China; and finally to his undercover involvement with Cuban rebels in the late 1950s and his sympathy for Fidel Castro. Reynolds equally explores Hemingway's participation in various roles as an agent for the United States government, including hunting Nazi submarines with ONI-supplied munitions in the Caribbean on his boat, Pilar; his command of an informant ring in Cuba called the "Crook Factory" that reported to the American embassy in Havana; and his on-the-ground role in Europe, where he helped OSS gain key tactical intelligence for the liberation of Paris and fought alongside the U.S. infantry in the bloody endgame of World War II. As he examines the links between Hemingway's work as an operative and as an author, Reynolds reveals how Hemingway's secret adventures influenced his literary output and contributed to the writer's block and mental decline (including paranoia) that plagued him during the postwar years -- a period marked by the Red Scare and McCarthy hearings. Reynolds also illuminates how those same experiences played a role in some of Hemingway's greatest works, including For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Old Man and the Sea, while also adding to the burden that he carried at the end of his life and perhaps contributing to his suicide. A literary biography with the soul of an espionage thriller, Writer, Sailor, Soldier, Spy is an essential contribution to our understanding of the life, work, and fate of one of America's most legendary authors.
Book Synopsis Battleship Sailor by : Theodore C. Mason
Download or read book Battleship Sailor written by Theodore C. Mason and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-01-15 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vigorous and highly readable, this portrait of the enlisted man's life aboard the U.S. battleship California depicts the devastation at Pearl Harbor from the hazardous vantage point of the open "birdbath" atop the mainmast.
Book Synopsis The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 538 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 concerns Allied efforts to protect shipping, supply, and troop transport against Axis submarines and their supporting aircraft and ships. Morison discusses all U.S. naval operations in the Atlantic from pole to pole and in the Caribbean, Gulf of Mexico, Barents Sea, and Atlantic territorial waters.
Book Synopsis History of United States Naval Operations in World War II by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book History of United States Naval Operations in World War II written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This final narrative volume of Morison's history recounts the infamous campaigns for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two of the most bitterly contested campaigns of the war.When the U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima, they expected to secure it within a few days. No one had anticipated Japan's determination to defend the island to the last man. Morison describes the Japanese defense system of camouflaged rifle pits and fortified gunning positions that held the Allies at bay and the heavy and continuous cover of naval gunfire that prevented even greater losses. As it was, the securing of Iwo Jima cost the United States more casualties than had been incurred in taking any other island in the Pacific. On Okinawa, the conflict stretched over six long, bloody months.As land forces struggled for every inch they took on the islands, the U.S. Navy faced the desperate fury of the kamimaze corps and its harvest of flaming terror: explosions, burning and flooded ships, searing injuries and death. Fierce weather, logistical complexities, Japanese submarines, and the unexpected death of President Roosevelt also took their toll. Morison concludes his epic account with the final skirmishes of the war, the fateful decision to drop the atomic bomb, and the delicate negotiations leading to Japanese surrender."
Download or read book The Sailor written by David F. Schmitz and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-02-23 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Sailor, David F. Schmitz presents a comprehensive reassessment of Franklin Delano Roosevelt's foreign policymaking. Most historians have cast FDR as a leader who resisted an established international strategy and who was forced to react quickly after the attack on Pearl Harbor, launching the nation into World War II. Drawing on a wealth of primary documents as well as the latest secondary sources, Schmitz challenges this view, demonstrating that Roosevelt was both consistent and calculating in guiding the direction of American foreign policy throughout his presidency. Schmitz illuminates how the policies FDR pursued in response to the crises of the 1930s transformed Americans' thinking about their place in the world. He shows how the president developed an interlocking set of ideas that prompted a debate between isolationism and preparedness, guided the United States into World War II, and mobilized support for the war while establishing a sense of responsibility for the postwar world. The critical moment came in the period between Roosevelt's reelection in 1940 and the Pearl Harbor attack, when he set out his view of the US as the arsenal of democracy, proclaimed his war goals centered on protection of the four freedoms, secured passage of the Lend-Lease Act, and announced the principles of the Atlantic Charter. This long-overdue book presents a definitive new perspective on Roosevelt's diplomacy and the emergence of the United States as a world power. Schmitz's work offers an important correction to existing studies and establishes FDR as arguably the most significant and successful foreign policymaker in the nation's history.
Book Synopsis A Sailor Called Wet Paint and Other Secret Stories from History by : Nandini Nayar
Download or read book A Sailor Called Wet Paint and Other Secret Stories from History written by Nandini Nayar and published by Hachette India Children's Books. This book was released on 2023-08-21 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " What can a lady in a thin sari do to survive in COLD England? How will a ship's crew RETURN home without any money? When did the young ayah last see her OWN family? And why, oh why, did the sailor write WET PAINT in a young girl's diary? Nannies and sailors taken 4,000 miles away to England to work...it's the same SORRY tale. Often ABANDONED, they have to find their own way across the sea, back home to India! It's upsetting. It's shocking. It's breaking our hearts. What are we to DO? Well, here are stories - a whole SHEAF of them about AYAHS in a foreign land and the Indian crew of LASCARS on ships, questioning why the British don't treat these people kindly. Asking to give them the home, the care and the freedom they deserve. But is ANYONE listening? Are YOU? "
Book Synopsis John Paul Jones by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book John Paul Jones written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Konecky & Konecky. This book was released on 2004-04-01 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's pre-eminent navel historian vividly captures the life of the founder of American naval power.
Book Synopsis The History of Richard Potter, a Sailor, and Prisoner in Newgate, who was Tried ... and Received Sentence of Death for Attempting, at the Instigation of Another Sailor, to Receive Thirty-five Shillings of Prize-money Due to a Third Sailor. Containing an Account of His Being Convinced of Sin and Converted in the Cells of Newgate, ... by : Alexander Cruden
Download or read book The History of Richard Potter, a Sailor, and Prisoner in Newgate, who was Tried ... and Received Sentence of Death for Attempting, at the Instigation of Another Sailor, to Receive Thirty-five Shillings of Prize-money Due to a Third Sailor. Containing an Account of His Being Convinced of Sin and Converted in the Cells of Newgate, ... written by Alexander Cruden and published by . This book was released on 1763 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The History of a Sailor: Comprising the First Five Years of His Voyages ... Written by Himself, Etc by :
Download or read book The History of a Sailor: Comprising the First Five Years of His Voyages ... Written by Himself, Etc written by and published by . This book was released on 1815 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Brave British Tar: Or the True History of a Sailor who Had Both His Legs Shot Off in Lord Duncan's Victory, Etc. [Signed: J. G.] by : J. G.
Download or read book The Brave British Tar: Or the True History of a Sailor who Had Both His Legs Shot Off in Lord Duncan's Victory, Etc. [Signed: J. G.] written by J. G. and published by . This book was released on 1830 with total page 8 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Two-Ocean War by : Samuel Eliot Morison
Download or read book The Two-Ocean War written by Samuel Eliot Morison and published by Galahad Books. This book was released on 1997 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the invasion of Europe and the final grudging surrender of the Japanese, Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison delivers a thrilling first-person chronicle of World War II battle at sea. This classic work of military history is culled from Morison's definitive fifteen-volume history of U.S. naval operations during the war. Morison, a decorated Navy captain and distinguished Harvard historian, creates a blazing record of military action, drama, and heroism in this detailed volume. Fully illustrated with 54 charts and maps and 35 photographs, The Two-Ocean War is an outstanding contribution to military history
Book Synopsis The Sailor's Word-book by : William Henry Smyth
Download or read book The Sailor's Word-book written by William Henry Smyth and published by London : Blackie and son. This book was released on 1867 with total page 836 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Royal Navy, a History from the Earliest Times to Present by : Sir William Laird Clowes
Download or read book The Royal Navy, a History from the Earliest Times to Present written by Sir William Laird Clowes and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 790 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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