Aug 2007: Vol. 6, Issue 2

ARTICLES

Smart Mining without Smart Mines: Second World War British Operations in the Baltic
W J R Gardner
Naval Historical Branch
Portsmouth , United Kingdom

BOOK REVIEWS

Martin Bellamy, Christian IV and His Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy 1596-1648. Brill, Leiden and Boston , 2006.
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
Kings College , London

James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner, with forward by T.R. Fehrenbach. From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck La Belle. Texas A&M University Press, College Station , Texas
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
Minerals Management Service, New Orleans, LA

Donald L. Canney, Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861. Washington DC : Potomac Books, 2006.
Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
Kings College , London

Gerald L. Duskin and Ralph Segman. If the Gods are Good: The Epic Sacrifice of the HMS Jervis Bay, Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Reviewed by Gregory V. Contaoi, CDR, USN
U.S. Naval Historical Center

Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam , 1954-1955. Lubbock , Texas : Texas Tech University Press, 2007.
Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood
U.S. Naval Historical Center

Ira Dye, Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy, Gainesville , FL : University Press of Florida , 2006.
Reviewed by Jeffrey J. Remling
Curator of Collections, South Street Seaport Museum , NY

Dennis L Noble, Rescued by the US Coast Guard: Great Acts of Heroism since 1878, Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Lieutenant Commander Mark R Condeno
Philippine Coast Guard Auxiliary CGAD-Palawan
Manila , Philippines

Jürgen Rohwer, with special assistance from Gerhard Hümmelchen and Thomas Weis, Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two, Annapolis , MD : Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow
U.S. Naval Historical Center

Douglas V. Smith. Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm’s Way. Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Reviewed by James P. Levy
Assistant Professor and Teaching Fellow, Hofstra University

Teddy Suhren and Fritz Brustat-Naval. Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel. Translation by Frank James. Postscript by Helmut Herzig. Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2006.
Reviewed by Eric C. Rust
Baylor University

Harlan K. Ullman, Finishing Business: Ten Steps to Defeat Global Terror, Annapolis :Naval Institute Press, 2004.
Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller
University of Wolverhampton

Colin White and the 1805 Club, The Trafalgar Captains Their Lives and Memorial, Annapolis : Naval Institute Press, 2005.
Reviewed by Charles Steele
United States Air Force Academy

COMMUNITY NEWS

2007 Naval History Symposium

THE HISTORY OF OCEANOGRAPHY NEWSLETTER

September 2007, Number 19
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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