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IJNH logo   August 2003  Volume 2  Issue 2

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.

 
ARTICLES

 

Editorial

 

Robert Browning, for the IJNH

 

The Uses of Maritime History in and for the Navy. 

John B. Hattendorf

Chair, Department of Maritime History 

U.S. Naval War College

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

Lee Ballenger.  The Final Crucible:  U.S. Marines in Korea, Vol. 2:  1953.  (Washington, D.C:  Brassey’s, 2001).

Reviewed by Derek W. Frisby
University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL.

 

Rodney Carlisle, Powder and Propellants:  Energetic materials at Indian Head, Maryland 1890-2001 Second Edition (Denton: University of North Texas

Press, 2002).

Reviewed by Larrie D. Ferreiro US Office of Naval Research, London.
 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

AND

HISTORICAL NOTES

 

Historical Note: 

Interpretative Perspective - 

The Pacific Naval War as One Coherent Campaign, 1941-1945.

Thomas C. Hone, with Trent C. Hone

 

A Question Posed by the Editors of the IJNH:

Privacy and Scholarship:

The Need to Establish a More Productive Working Relationship: The Case of the Deutsche Dienststelle (WASt)

Further Developments and New Opportunities:

Eric Rust, Baylor University 

Archival Treasure for Scholars of the Kriegsmarine:

The Bundesarchiv-Zentralnachweisstelle (BA-ZNS), Kornelimünster.

 

 

Christian Dedet, Les fleurs d'acier du Mikado (Paris: Flammarion, 1993).

Reviewed by Larrie D. Ferreiro U.S. Office of Naval Research, London.

 

William S. Dudley and Michael J. Crawford, eds., The Early Republic and the Sea: Essays on the Naval and Maritime History of the Early United States, (Washington, D.C.: Brasseys Inc., 2001)

Reviewed by W.A.B Douglas, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada.

 

Geoffrey M. Footner, USS Constellation, From Frigate to Sloop of War, Annapolis MD: Naval Institute Press, 2002.

Reviewed by Captain (N) Richard Greenwood Commanding Officer, Fleet Maintenance Facility HMCS Cape Breton, CFB Esquimalt, Canada.

 

William H. Roberts, Civil War Ironclads: The U.S. Navy and Industrial Mobilization, Baltimore: The John Hopkins University Press, 2002)

Reviewed by, Howard J. Fuller, Department of War Studies, King’s College, London

 

Jay Y. Gonen, The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler’s Utopian Barbarism, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

Reviewed by Lee Baker, University of Cincinnati, Raymond Walters College

 

Jay Y. Gonen , The Roots of Nazi Psychology: Hitler’s Utopian Barbarism, Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 2003.

An alternative view:

Reviewed by David R. Snyder, Austin Peay State University, Tennessee, USA.

 

Robert J. Schneller, Jr., Farragut: America’s First Admiral (Washington, DC: Brassey’s, 2002).

Reviewed by Christopher S. Stowe, Department of History, University of Toledo, USA.

 

Brigadier General Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.), The United States Marines:  A History, 4th Edition  (Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 2003).

Reviewed by Hal M. Friedman, Senior Modern History Instructor, Henry Ford Community College.

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

 

Menlo College

Atherton, CA

Derroteros de la Mar del Sur 

Issue number 10 is now available.

 

Menlo College

Atherton, CA

The VII Simposium of Historia Marítima y Naval Iberoaméricana

 

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Washington D.C.

Metro Washington D.C.
Military Classics Seminar 

Books and Speakers for 2003-2004

Fort Meyer Officer’s Club, Tuesdays 5:30 pm.

 

U.S. Naval Historical Center 

News for 2003-2004:  

Fellowships and Publications
 
 
 
 

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The monitor Dunderberg - Rochambeau, 1865. 

 

 

 

 

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