Britain's Clandestine Submarines, 1914-1915
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. Reprint Edition. 155 pages, illus., footnotes, note on sources, index, rear DJ stained & small edge chips, cloth on rear board somewhat bubbled. More
Hamden, CT: Archon Books, 1975. Reprint Edition. 155 pages, illus., footnotes, note on sources, index, rear DJ stained & small edge chips, cloth on rear board somewhat bubbled. More
Racine, WI: Whitman Publishing Company, [1943]. 21 cm, 252, illus., pages quite browned, boards weak and nearly separated, covers worn and soiled, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More
Annapolis, MD: The United States Naval Institute, 1952. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. xxi, [1][, 618 pages. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations. Index. Compiled for The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. This is the third volume in this series and contains a listing of over 4,000 combatant ships and their sponsors. It covers a period of twenty-seven years of unprecedented shipbuilding--the greatest in world history--prior to, during, and since World War II. This volume deals only with combatant ships. Auxiliary ships, which of course are of vital important to the fleets, are not include for the reason that only Sponsors of fighting ships are eligible for memberships in the "The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy." This covers the types of combatant ships, including: Battleships, Cruisers, Aircraft Carriers, Destroyers, Submarines, Amphibious Vessels, Transports, Escort Vessel, Landing Ship Flotilla, Submarine Chasers, Mine Vessels, Minelayers, Minesweepers, Patrol Vessels, Frigates, Motor Gunboats, Motor Torpedo Boats, Attack Transports. More
Annapolis, MD: The United States Naval Institute, 1959. Fiftieth Anniversary Edition, presumed First printing. Hardcover. xxv, [1], 291, [3] pages. Frontis illustrations. Illustrations. Index. Minor edge soiling. Compiled for The Society of Sponsors of the United States Navy. Foreword by Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Arleigh Burke. This is the fourth volume in this series. It contains the records of fewer vessels but among them are several new types of ships. These are of the latest design with highly-developed electronic equipment and atomic propulsion. These new devices are being installed in the ships, listed in this volume, build during the so-called Atomic Age. Many of them are as different from the ships of World War Ii, listed in Volume Three, as those from the sailing ships of the Continental Navy. Accordingly, the Society of Sponsors includes in this volume certain types of ships hitherto considered as auxiliaries and noncombatant. More
New York: PublicAffairs, 1998. Eighth printing [stated]. Hardcover. xvii, [10], 352, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Index. Sherry Sontag is an investigative journalist who, before turning to Blind Man's Bluff, was a staff writer for the National Law Journal. While there, she wrote about the Soviet Union, international affairs, and domestic scandals in securities and banking. Prior to that, Sontag wrote for the New York Times. A lifelong resident of New York, she has degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College. Christopher Drew is an American investigative reporter for The New York Times. He has written on submarine espionage, on presidential campaigning, and other topics. Drew,and others, were the recipient of a George Polk Award in 2016 for reporting on the SEALS' SEAL Team 6 and on the killing of an Afghan in 2012. Drew reported from Washington D.C. for ten years, twice winning White House Correspondents' Association awards for national reportage. His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Drew, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998. The Chicago Tribune team used Freedom of Information Act requests and examined formerly secret and dangerous submarine military actions. The book also won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History prize for the best book on American naval history published in 1998. Annette Drew, the book's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. More
New York: HarperPaperbacks, c1999. 1st HarperPap Printing. pocket paperbk, 514, wraps, illus., appendices, notes, index, some wear to cover edges, small tear bottom edge of front cover. More
New York: Public Affairs, 1998. Later printing. Hardcover. 25 cm. xvii, [10], 352, [4] pages. Illustrations. Maps. Footnotes. Appendices. Notes. Index. Signed by the co-author (Christopher Drew). Sherry Sontag is an investigative journalist who, before turning to Blind Man's Bluff, was a staff writer for the National Law Journal. While there, she wrote about the Soviet Union, international affairs, and domestic scandals in securities and banking. Prior to that, Sontag wrote for the New York Times. A lifelong resident of New York, she has degrees from Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism and Barnard College. Christopher Drew is an American investigative reporter for The New York Times. He has written on submarine espionage, on presidential campaigning, and other topics. Drew,and others, were the recipient of a George Polk Award in 2016 for reporting on the SEALS' SEAL Team 6 and on the killing of an Afghan in 2012. Drew reported from Washington D.C. for ten years, twice winning White House Correspondents' Association awards for national reportage. His book Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, co-authored with Sherry Sontag and with Annette Lawrence Drew, won an Investigative Reporters and Editors (IRE) certificate award in 1998. The Chicago Tribune team used Freedom of Information Act requests and examined formerly secret and dangerous submarine military actions. The book also won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in Naval History prize for the best book on American naval history published in 1998. Annette Drew, the book's researcher, has a Ph.D. in politics from Princeton. More
New York: Public Affairs, c1998. 25 cm, 352, illus., maps, appendices, notes, index, boards stained. More
New York: Twayne Publishers, 1972. First? Edition. First? Printing. 22 cm, 443, v.4 only, illus., endpaper maps, bibliography, index, front DJ flap price clipped, DJ worn, soiled, and edge tears. More
New York: G. P. Putnam's Sons, 1967. 384, illus., bibliographical notes, chronology, appendix, index, rear DJ somewhat soiled, DJ edges worn & scuffed: small tears. More
New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1962. 255, illus., maps, appendix, index, some soiling to fore-edge, DJ worn and scuffed: small tears/chips to DJ edges. More
Carrollton, TX: squadron/signal publications, 1983. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Trade paperback. 50 pages. Illustrations (some with color). Warships Number 2. Robert C. Stern has been writing naval history for more than thirty years, during which time he has published nine major works, numerous magazine articles, and pictorial monographs. Doctrine in the inter-war years emphasized the submarine as a scout for the battle fleet, and also extreme caution in command. Both these axioms were proven wrong after the attack on Pearl Harbor in December 1941. The submarine skippers of the fleet boats of World War II waged a very effective campaign against Japanese merchant vessels, eventually repeating and surpassing Germany's initial success during the Battle of the Atlantic against the United Kingdom. During the war, submarines of the United States Navy were responsible for 55% of Japan's merchant marine losses; other Allied navies added to the toll. The war against shipping was the single most decisive factor in the collapse of the Japanese economy. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1975. Fourteenth Printing. 24 cm, 276, illus., maps, index, some foxing to fore-edge. More
Chapel Hill, NC: University of NC Press, 1952. Presumed First Printing. Hardcover. 24 cm, 276 pages. Illus., maps, index, some foxing to rear DJ, some wear and small tears to DJ edges. Signed by the author. More
New York: F. Fell, Inc., 1944. First? Edition. First? Printing. 21 cm, 319, frontis illus., stamp on endpapers, pocket removed at rear, tape marks to DJ & bds, DJ worn, soiled, & small tears/chips. More
Garden City, NY: Garden City Publishing Company, Inc., 1928. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. vii, [3], 363, [1] and 10 pages [including pages reprinted from Lowell Thomas's Count Luckner]. Cover is worn, soiled, and has a tear and loss of material at lower spine. Some board weakness. Some page discoloration. Inscribed by the author on the fep. Inscription reads For Louis MacBracken---Yours until we all go down to Davy Jones. Lowell Thomas. Lowell Jackson Thomas (April 6, 1892 – August 29, 1981) was an American writer, actor, broadcaster, and traveler, best remembered for publicizing T. E. Lawrence (Lawrence of Arabia). He was also involved in promoting the Cinerama widescreen system. In 1954, he led a group of New York City-based investors to buy majority control of Hudson Valley Broadcasting, which, in 1957, became Capital Cities Television Corporation. Thomas was a relentless self-promoter, and he persuaded railroads to give him free passage in exchange for articles extolling rail travel. When he visited Alaska, he hit upon the idea of the travelogue, movies about faraway places. When the United States entered World War I, President Wilson sent him and others to "compile a history of the conflict", but the mission was not academic. The war was not popular in the United States, and Thomas was sent to find material that would encourage the American people to support it. He did not want to merely write about the war, he wanted to film it. Thomas narrated Twentieth Century Fox's Movietone newsreels until 1952, when he teamed with Mike Todd and Merian C. Cooper to exploit Cinerama, a film format using three projectors and an enormous curved screen with surround sound. More
New York: Quartet Books, 1983. First U.S.? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 278, paperclip impression on several pages. More
London: Quartet Books, 1983. 24 cm, 278, usual library markings, DJ pasted to boards, library pocket has been removed In 1981 Soviet submarine U-137 ran aground near the Swedish naval base at Karlskrona. Fictionalized account. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. First Printing. 217, illus., discolor & soiling ins bds, some wear to corners of bds & edges of spine, lower corn fr bd chewed, crayon name ins fr bd. More
New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1945. Pre-Pub Printing. 217, illus., red pencil marginal underlining p. 5, pgs darkened, weakness to bds, bds scuffed & soiled, bd & spine edges worn. More
London: Macdonald & Co., 1984. Later edition. Trade paperback. 288 pages. Illustrations (some in color). Selected Bibliography. References. Index. Special Features (Alfred's Navy, Sailing-Ship Gunnery, Early Navigation, The Spanish Armada, "Sovereign of the Seas", Early Naval Administration, The Rating System of Ships, The Seven Years War--Battle of Quiberon Bay 1759, The Voyages of Captain Cook, Signalling at Sea, The Coming of Steam, Fisher's Reforms, H.M.S. "Dreadnought", The Anglo-German Arms Race (1898-1914), Breech-loading Gunnery, The Royal Marines, Trinity House, Radar and Sonar, Submarines, Naval Air Power, Dunkirk and D-Day, The Coming of Missiles, and Blockade by Seapower. This beautifully illustrated history of the Royal Navy, from its origins in the reign of King Alfred to the present day, presents a panoramic view of the ships, seamen, organization, and fighting record of the unique force that has stood between England and her foes for a thousand years. Warren Tute was an English sailor, author and television executive. He was born in 1914 in West Hartlepool, County Durham in the north of England and joined the Royal Navy in 1932, at one time serving on HMS Ajax. During the Second World War he served on Lord Louis Mountbatten's staff and took part in amphibious landings in North Africa, Sicily and Normandy. Following his retirement in 1946 he wrote for television and radio, under contract to Ted Kavanagh, famous for the radio series ITMA. At London Weekend Television he was Head of Scripts. For BBC television he originated The Commanding Sea series and wrote the book with co-author Clare Francis. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy History Division, 1969. Reprint with corrections. Hardcover. Quarto. xxiii, [1] , 591, [1] pages. Volume II: C-F--Carriers, Confederate Forces ONLY, Illustrated endpapers. Abbreviations and Symbols. List of Illustrations. Bibliography. Historical Sketches: Letters C, D, E, and F. Aircraft Carriers. Confederate Forces Afloat. Cover has some wear and soiling. This revised edition depicts each ship in its historical setting; the original edition was published in 1959. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy. When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series. In addition to the ship entries, DANFS and the online links have been expanded to include appendices on small craft, histories of Confederate Navy ships, and various essays related to naval ships. More
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy History Division, 1968. presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 876, [2] pages. Volume III: G-K-Appendices One-Six ONLY, Illustrated endpapers. Abbreviations and Symbols. List of Illustrations. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Historical Sketches: Letters G, H, I, J, and K. Appendices I-VI: Historic Ship Exhibits, Monitors. Civil War Naval Ordnance. Addenda to Appendix III, IV and V of Volume I. Addenda to Appendix I of Volume II. Additional Ships named AFI. Errata Volumes I and II. Contents of earlier volumes. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy. When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series. In addition to the ship entries, More
Washington, DC: U. S. Department of the Navy, Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, Navy History Division, 1969. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Quarto. xxvi, 744, [2] pages. Volume IV: G-K-Appendices One-Six ONLY, Illustrated endpapers. Abbreviations and Symbols. List of Illustrations. Maps. Illustrations. Bibliography. Historical Sketches: Letters G, H, I, J, and K. Appendices I-VI: Amphibious Warfare Ships, Aviation Auxiliaries, Destroyer Tenders, Ships of the Line, Classification of Naval Ships and Service Craft. Errata Volume III. Contents of earlier volumes. Cover has some wear and soiling. The Dictionary of American Naval Fighting Ships (DANFS) is the official reference work for the basic facts about ships used by the United States Navy. When the writing project was developed the parameters for this series were designed to cover only commissioned US Navy ships with assigned names. If the ship was not assigned a name it was not included in the histories written for the series. In addition to the ship entries, More
Washington, DC: U.S. Army Orientation Course, 1944. 46.5" x 35", 1 sheet, 1 oversized sheet, illus., color maps, creases, small tears and chips along edges, small stains. More