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Book Synopsis Death in the Jungle by : Gary R. Smith
Download or read book Death in the Jungle written by Gary R. Smith and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-05-18 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SNAKES, VIPERS, CROCS, SHARKS, AND THE VC With 257 combat missions in Vietnam under his belt, Gary Smith is a living witness to the realities of Naval Special Warfare. He worked with some of the toughest and most highly motivated men in the world, executing missions in the murderous terrain of Rung Sat Special Zone and Dung Island. The key to their success: go where no ordinary soldier would go and no VC would expect them. Though death reigned as king in the jungles of Vietnam, Gary Smith considered it a privilege and an honor to serve under the officers and with the men of Underwater Demolition Team Twelve and SEAL Team 1. Because he and his teammates, trained to the max, gave each other the courage to attain the unattainable . . . .
Book Synopsis Diary of a Contraband by : William Benjamin Gould
Download or read book Diary of a Contraband written by William Benjamin Gould and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heart of this book is the remarkable Civil War diary of the author’s great-grandfather, William Benjamin Gould, an escaped slave who served in the United States Navy from 1862 until the end of the war. The diary vividly records Gould’s activity as part of the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron off the coast of North Carolina and Virginia; his visits to New York and Boston; the pursuit to Nova Scotia of a hijacked Confederate cruiser; and service in European waters pursuing Confederate ships constructed in Great Britain and France. Gould’s diary is one of only three known diaries of African American sailors in the Civil War. It is distinguished not only by its details and eloquent tone (often deliberately understated and sardonic), but also by its reflections on war, on race, on race relations in the Navy, and on what African Americans might expect after the war. The book includes introductory chapters that establish the context of the diary narrative, an annotated version of the diary, a brief account of Gould’s life in Massachusetts after the war, and William B. Gould IV’s thoughts about the legacy of his great-grandfather and his own journey of discovery in learning about this remarkable man.
Book Synopsis Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 by : James J. Fahey
Download or read book Pacific War Diary, 1942-1945 written by James J. Fahey and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2003 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fahey was a 24-year-old garbage-truck driver when he enlisted in the Navy on Oct. 3, 1942, and became a seaman first class on the USS Montpelier. During almost three years of battle in the Pacific Ocean, he defied Navy rules against keeping a diary by writing copious notes on loose sheets of paper that appeared to anyone watching to be ordinary let
Download or read book Master Chief written by Gary R. Smith and published by Ballantine Books. This book was released on 2011-05-04 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The memoir of a man who spent most of his career facing death. For UDT/SEAL team member Gary R. Smith, just being part of an elite military organization wasn’t enough—he had to be in the thick of the action. Because in bloody, violent Vietnam he learned there’s no stronger bond than the one forged in the gut-wrenching chaos of combat. During ambushes, PRU combat patrols, and extractions from hot LZs, Smith depended on the courage and sacrifice of his fellow SEALs, who time and again placed their own lives on the line so that he might survive. In Master Chief, Gary Smith covers his fifth tour in Vietnam and his rise to the highest enlisted rank, master chief petty officer. Characteristically, Smith holds nothing back when describing life during wartime in one of the world’s toughest fighting units. Based on the author's own experience, as well as his own and others’ diaries, letters, and documents, and on extensive interviews, Master Chief is an outstanding memoir of a warrior who answered the call to arms when his country needed him.
Book Synopsis The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy by : Gideon Welles
Download or read book The Civil War Diary of Gideon Welles, Lincoln's Secretary of the Navy written by Gideon Welles and published by University of Illinois Press. This book was released on 2014-08-15 with total page 881 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gideon Welles’s 1861 appointment as secretary of the navy placed him at the hub of Union planning for the Civil War and in the midst of the powerful personalities vying for influence in Abraham Lincoln’s cabinet. Although Welles initially knew little of naval matters, he rebuilt a service depleted by Confederate defections, planned actions that gave the Union badly needed victories in the war’s early days, and oversaw a blockade that weakened the South’s economy. Perhaps the hardest-working member of the cabinet, Welles still found time to keep a detailed diary that has become one of the key documents for understanding the inner workings of the Lincoln administration. In this new edition, William E. and Erica L. Gienapp have restored Welles’s original observations, gleaned from the manuscript diaries at the Library of Congress and freed from his many later revisions, so that the reader can experience what he wrote in the moment. With his vitriolic pen, Welles captures the bitter disputes over strategy and war aims, lacerates colleagues from Secretary of State William H. Seward to General-in-Chief Henry Halleck, and condemns the actions of the self-serving southern elite he sees as responsible for the war. He just as easily waxes eloquent about the Navy's wartime achievements, extols the virtues of Lincoln, and drops in a tidbit of Washington gossip. Carefully edited and extensively annotated, this edition contains a wealth of supplementary material. The appendixes include short biographies of the members of Lincoln’s cabinet, the retrospective Welles wrote after leaving office covering the period missing from the diary proper, and important letters regarding naval matters and international law.
Book Synopsis The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces by :
Download or read book The United States Army and Navy Journal and Gazette of the Regular and Volunteer Forces written by and published by . This book was released on 1864 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States by : Military Service Institution of the United States
Download or read book Journal of the Military Service Institution of the United States written by Military Service Institution of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Submarine Diary by : Corwin Mendenhall
Download or read book Submarine Diary written by Corwin Mendenhall and published by Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2013-07-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A vividly detailed account of life aboard U.S. submarines in the Pacific during World War II.
Download or read book Fading Victory written by Matome Ugaki and published by US Naval Institute Press. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Long out of print, these wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy, provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki was chief of staff of the Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroki Yamamoto until both were shot down over Bougainville in April 1943, resulting in Yamamoto's death. He later served as commander of battleship and air fleets, finally directing the kamikaze attacks off Okinawa. Invaluable for its details of the Japanese Navy at war, the diaries offer a running appraisal of the fighting and are augmented by editorial commentary that proves especially useful to American readers eager to see the war from the other side. When first published in 1991, this dairy was hailed as a major contribution to World War II literature as the only firsthand account of strategic planning for the entire war by a Japanese commander. -- Publisher's Description.
Book Synopsis United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal by :
Download or read book United Service Magazine and Naval Military Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1835 with total page 596 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Journal by : Military Service Institution of the United States
Download or read book Journal written by Military Service Institution of the United States and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 508 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal by :
Download or read book Colburn's United Service Magazine and Naval and Military Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 710 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis My Three Years with Eisenhower by : Harry Cecil Butcher
Download or read book My Three Years with Eisenhower written by Harry Cecil Butcher and published by . This book was released on 1946 with total page 954 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Pepys's Navy written by J. D. Davies and published by Pen and Sword. This book was released on 2008-11-20 with total page 611 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An extensively illustrated reference covering four tumultuous decades that gave birth to the modern Royal Navy. Winner of the Samuel Pepys Prize and Latham Medal This reference book describes every aspect of the English navy in the second half of the seventeenth century, from the time when the Fleet Royal was taken into Parliamentary control after the defeat of Charles I, until the accession of William and Mary in 1689 when the long period of war with the Dutch came to an end. This is a crucial era that witnessed the creation of a permanent naval service, in essence the birth of today’s Royal Navy. Samuel Pepys, whose thirty years of service did so much to replace the ad hoc processes of the past with systems for construction and administration, is one of the most significant players, and the navy that was, by 1690, ready for a century of global struggle with the French owed much to his tireless work. This major reference for historians, naval enthusiasts, and, anyone with an interest in this colorful era of the seventeenth century covers: naval administration ship types and shipbuilding naval recruitment and crews seamanship and gunnery shipboard life dockyards and bases the foreign navies of the period the three major wars fought against the Dutch in the Channel and the North Sea “Davies writes clearly, knows his subject extremely well, organizes the material effectively, and covers each topic thoroughly . . . there’s some new piece of revelatory detail on pretty much every page. If you’re at all interested in seventeenth century sailing ships—especially English ships—this is a truly fascinating and rewarding book.” —Corsairs and Captives
Book Synopsis The Diary of Mattie Spenser by : Sandra Dallas
Download or read book The Diary of Mattie Spenser written by Sandra Dallas and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 1998-05-15 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mattie Spenser and her new husband Luke start off to the west. As they live their life Mattie keeps a journal of the joys and frustrations of frontier life and marriage.
Book Synopsis Pepys and the Navy by : C S Knighton
Download or read book Pepys and the Navy written by C S Knighton and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2003-04-24 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pepys's diary has made him a literary celebrity. In his own time he was known as the chief naval official under Charles II and James II and this aspect of the diarist's life has not received the attention it deserves from his modern biographers. Charles Knighton, a Pepys scholar with a particular interest in naval history, reveals the full extent of Pepys's achievements in creating a modern navy which was both permanent and professional.
Book Synopsis The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine by :
Download or read book The United Service Journal and Naval and Military Magazine written by and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 604 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
