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ARTICLES
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
Larry Berman, Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life
of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter &
Vietnamese Communist Agent. Smithsonian
Books, 2007. 328 pp. photos, notes, index.
Review by
John D. Sherwood
Naval Historical Center
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
Colin S. Gray, The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the
New World Order, The University Press of Kentucky, 2004. 195 pp. notes, bibliography, index.
Review by John T.
Broom
Norwich University
Eric Larrabee, Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt,
His Lieutenants, and Their War, Naval
Institute Press, 2004. 735 pp.
Review by
Jeffery Cook
North Greenville University
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., 2000. 290 pp. appendices, notes, index.
Review by John T.
Broom
Norwich University
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.
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BOOK REVIEWS (continued)
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.
Gordon Smith, Battle
Atlas of the Falklands
War 1982 by Land, Sea, and Air, Naval–History.Net, 2006. 140 pp., maps, illustrations, appendix, bibliography,
and index.
Review by
Charles Steele
United States Air
Force
Academy
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
Rif Winfield, British Warships in the
Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates,
Chatham Publishing, 2005. 418 pp.
Review by
Charles E. Brodine, Jr.
Naval Historical Center
Herbert O. Yardley, The American Black Chamber,
Bobbs-Merrill, 1931; Reprint
Edition, Naval Institute Press,
2004.
Review by
Terrance Rucker
U.S. House of
Representatives
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THE HISTORY OF OCEANOGRAPHY NEWSLETTER
September
2007, Number 19
Edited by Professor Eric Mills,
Dalhousie
University
Canada
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The International Union
of the History and Philosophy of Science
Division of the History of Science
Commission of Oceanography
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