Books About the Navy and Ships
| Unknown Waters: A First-Hand Account of the Historic Under-ice Survey of the Siberian Continental Shelf by USS Queenfish (SSN-651) by Alfred S McLaren. 242 pages (January 25, 2008) University Alabama Press. Captain McLaren's first person account of the vital patrols of American nuclear submaries under the arctic ice during the 1960s and 1970s. The vital Cold War role of these patrols at the top of the world is presented along with some ligher moments like surfacing at the North Pole. |
| Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by Samuel Eliot Morison. US Naval Institute Press (April 6, 2007), paperback, 642 pages. Morison was an historian, a full professor at Harvard who was commissioned into the WW II Navy specifically to write the history of the conflict. This book, originally published in 1963, is a single-volume abridgement of the official history, Morison's monumental fifteen volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II , recipient of multiple honors. This book reviews all the important aspects of the subject and follows the action in the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and the Pacific from the preparations before Pearl Harbor, through the battle of the Atlantic, to the struggles for the Pacific island bases and the final Japanese surrender. |
| American Battleships : A Pictorial History of BB-1 to BB-71, With Prototypes Maine & Texas by Max R. Newhart |
| Jane's Battleships of the 20th Century by Bernard Ireland, Tony Gibbons (Illustrator) |
| U.S. Navy Ships and Coast Guard Cutters by M. D. Rear Admiral Van Orden. 87 pages (October 1990). This book is an excellent beginner's look into ships, life aboard them, and the men and women who serve on them. It details the major types of Naval and Coast Guard vessels from Aircraft Carriers, to Auxillary Ships, and High Endurance Cutters. The author draws on 34 years in the Navy to present often puzzling nautical and technical information into an easy-to-understand format. This book is written primarily for teenagers, but everyone who reads this book will enjoy it and learn from it. |
| In Harms Way by Doug Stanton. 320 pages 1st edition (April 2001) Henry Holt & Company, Inc. At the end of July 1945 the USS Indianapolis had just completed the top-secret mission delivering the atomic bomb to the B-29 group on Tinian. As she crossed the South Pacific to her next duty station, she was torpedoed and sunk with the immediate loss of hundreds of men. Through an incredible series of mistakes, the Navy didn't notice her loss and no rescue was sent for days during which the surviving crew suffered unbelievable trials in the shark-infested seas. This book captures the bravery and anguish of those days in the water followed by the heartbreaking attempt by the Navy to blame the captain for the disaster. This is an incredible human drama of valor and sacrifice under the worst circumstances. The publisher has created a web site with much more information about the history of this event. |
| PC Patrol Craft of World War II by Wm. J. Veigele. 400 pages. (May 2003). This book is a history of all the PC Patrol Craft of WWII ("subchasers") and their crews. It describes the need for, construction of, crew training, exploits and action, losses, and disposition of the ships. The book has more than 150 photographs and drawings and a plan for a PC. |
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