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April 2008

Volume 7  Number 1    

The objective of the International Journal of Naval History is to provide a pre-eminent forum for works of naval history researched and written to demonstrable academic standards. Our hope is to stimulate and promote research into naval history and foster communication among naval historians at an international level.

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ARTICLES

 

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The Difficulties of an Admiralty Reformer in the later Nineteenth Century: The case of E.N. Swainson

 

Iain Hamilton

University of Witwatersrand

South Africa

 

BOOK REVIEWS

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Larry Berman. Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter & Vietnamese Communist Agent. New York , New York : Smithsonian Books, 2007. 328 pp. photos, notes, index.

 

Review by John D. Sherwood

Naval Historical Center

 

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Craig C. Felker, Testing American Sea Power: U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940, Texas A & M University Press, 2007. 192 pp. illustrated.

 

Review by Andrew Lambert

King’s College, London

 

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Colin S. Gray, The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order, The University Press of Kentucky, Lexington KY , 2004.  195 pp. notes, bibliography, index.

 

Review by John T. Broom

Master’s in Military History Program

Norwich University  

 

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Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War, Annapolis , Maryland : Naval Institute Press, 2004. 735 pp.

 

Review by Jeffery Cook

North Greenville University

 

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James Douglas O’Dell, The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of the U.S. Navy’s Combat Demolition Units, UDTs and SEALS, Brassey’s, Inc. Dulles VA, 2000.  290 pp. appendices, notes, index.

 

Review by John T. Broom

Master’s in Military History Program

Norwich University

 

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Norman Polmar, Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Vol. I 1909-1945, Potomac Books Inc, 2006. 576 pp. 389 B&W photographs, maps, glossary, appendixes, notes, index.

 

Review by Andrew Lambert

King’s College London.

 

 

BOOK REVIEWS (continued)

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Norman Polmar, Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Vol. II 1946-2006, Potomac Books Inc, 2008. 560 pp. 350 B&W photographs, maps, glossary, appendixes, notes, index.

 

Review by Andrew Lambert

King’s College London.

 

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Gordon Smith, Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 by Land, Sea, and Air,  Penarth: Naval–History.Net, 2006. 140 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography, and index.

 

Review by Charles Steele

United States Air Force Academy

 

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William H. Thiesen, Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920, University Press of Florida , 2006. 302pp.

 

Review by Howard J. Fuller

University of Wolverhampton

Department of War Studies

 

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Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates, London : Chatham Publishing, 2005. 418 pp.

 

Review by Charles E. Brodine, Jr.

Naval Historical Center

 

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Herbert O. Yardley, The American Black Chamber, Indianapolis , IN : Bobbs-Merrill, 1931; Reprint Edition, Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2004.

 

Review by Terrance Rucker

U.S. House of Representatives

 

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Edited by Professor Eric Mills,

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