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August 2005 

Volume 4  Number 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

The Neglected Player?

Gary E. Weir

U.S. Naval Historical Center, 

Washington D.C.

For the IJNH

 

Admiral Hyman G. Rickover USN

and the UK Nuclear Submarine Propulsion Programme

By Vice Admiral Sir Robert Hill

United Kingdom

 

More than “Rum, Buggery, and the Lash”:  Social History in American Naval Documents

By Michael J. Crawford

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Washington D.C.USA

 

BOOK REVIEWS

 

William F. Althoff, USS                         Los Angeles: The Navy’s Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology, Washington D.C.: Brassey’s, 2004. Bibliography, illustrations, index.

 

Reviewed by Lt. Colonel John J. Abbatiello, USAF

Department of History

U.S. Air Force Academy, USA

 

Thomas J. Cutler, A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy. Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2005.  ISBN 1-59114-151-6

 

Reviewed by David F. Winkler

Naval Historical Foundation

Washington D.C. USA

 

Albert Helfrick, Electronics in the Evolution of Flight, College Station: Texas A & M Press, 2004. ISBN 1-58544-413-8. Bibliographic references, index.

 

Reviewed by Lt. Colonel John J. Abbatiello, USAF

Department of History

U.S. Air Force Academy, USA

 

Richard A.  Hoffman, The Fighting Flying Boat:  A History of the Martin PBM Mariner.  Annapolis:  Naval Institute Press, 2004.

 

Reviewed by Lt. Colonel John J. Abbatiello, USAF

Department of History

U.S. Air Force Academy, USA

 

 

 

AUGUST NAVAL HISTORY PHOTOGRAPH

 

Naval Gun Factory, 

Washington Navy Yard, D.C., USA

A scene of the foundry in operation during World War II.
(Official U.S. Navy Photograph, now in the collections of the U.S. National Archives.)

 

 

WORKS IN PROGRESS

 

Bibliography:

Admiral Erich Raeder

From a forthcoming biography to be published by Naval Institute Press in 2006  

By

Keith W. Bird, Chancellor

Kentucky Community and Technical College System

 

PBN-1 Catalinas in the Soviet Union!

By 

Rear Admiral Boris G. Novyy, Russian Federation Navy, Ret.

Moscow, Russia., October 20, 2001

 

Naval Historical Foundation 

Edward Beach Prize Essay for 2005

"Train for the Known, Educate for the Unknown:" The Navy's Struggle for Clarity with Graduate Education in the Humanities, from Holloway to Rickover. 

 

Midshipman Seth Powell

US Naval Academy, 

Annapolis, Maryland USA

 

COMMUNITY NEWS

 

From the Argentine Navy Strategic Studies Center

 

The Argentine Navy Strategic Studies Center has produced a research paper about Argentine naval strategic thought. 

 

From the Sea Power Centre - Australia and the U.S. Naval Historical Center

 

The Combined Strategic Alternative: The Naval Dimension to Modern Localised Conflicts, 1990-2002

The Combined Operations Project

 

From the Naval Historical Center

 

Annual Awards and 

the Naval History Seminar Program for 

2005-2006

Michael Palmer , Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass. 2005. 377 pp. ISBN 0-674-01681-5 maps, bibliography.

 

Reviewed by Andrew D. Lambert

King’s College, London, UK

 

J. Charles Schencking, Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy: 1868-1922. Palo Alto, CA: Stanford University Press, 2005.

 

Reviewed by Terrance Rucker

The George Washington University

Washington D.C. USA

 

James H. Wilbanks. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost the War. Lawrence, Kansas: University Press of Kansas, 2004. ISBN: 0-7006-1331-5. 27 photos. 19 maps. 3 charts. 11 tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi + 377 pages.

 

Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood

U.S. Naval Historical Center

Washington Navy Yard, DC

USA.

 

THE HISTORY OF OCEANOGRAPHY NEWSLETTER

 

September 2005, Number 17

Edited by Professor Eric Mills,

Dalhousie University

Canada

 

Prepared in Association with 

The International Union of the History and Philosophy of Science

Division of the History of Science

Commission of Oceanography

 

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