Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1990. First Printing. 24 cm, 335, figures, tables, appendices, notes, index, very slight creasing to DJ edges. More

New York: Military Press, 1991. Presumed First Edition, First printing Thus. Hardcover. Quarto, 128 pages. Profusely illustrated (color). DJ has small tear at top of front near spine. A Western Australian by birth, Tony Holmes was a published aviation author by the age of 20. Moving to England in 1988, he has worked in aviation publishing ever since. Tony has written more than 50 books and edited a further 300 in the past 25 years. Passionate about naval aviation, he has conducted more than 30 carrier embarks on US Navy and Royal Navy vessels across the globe, including nine visits to supercarriers sailing in the waters of the Northern Arabian Gulf whilst they were conducting operations over Iraq and Afghanistan. Tony Holmes has worked as Osprey's aerospace editor since 1989, having previously served as an author/photographer for this publishing house in Australasia. He established the critically acclaimed and hugely popular Aircraft of the Aces series in 1994. More

Washington, DC: Naval Historical Foundation, 1974. First? Edition. First? Printing. 56, wraps, illus., occasional check marks in text, covers somewhat worn and soiled. More

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, c1991. First? Edition. First? Printing. 24 cm, 185, illus., bookplate residue inside front board, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More

New York: Villard Books, 1986. First Edition. First Printing. 24 cm, 319, DJ edges worn, some soiling to DJ. Inscribed by the author (Johnson). More

Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hard Cover. xi, [1], 292 pages. Contains vivid photos of the scorpion and her crew. Lists the Officers and Crew of the USS Scorpion. Bibliography. Index. DJ is taped to the boards. This book combines a thrilling adventure story and an intriguing mystery with a cautionary tale about the limits of technology and the high price of failure at sea. Journalist Stephen Johnson (a former Houston Chronicle reporter) has written a compelling and meticulously detailed examination of the Scorpion disaster. Using Navy Court of Inquiry records and interviews with former Scorpion sailors, naval scientists, submarine warfare experts and family members of those who died, he provides possible answers about the sinking and in the process paints a vivid picture of the U.S.-Soviet struggle at sea. We get a guided tour of the numerous technical malfunctions aboard the 1960-commissioned Scorpion. Johnson looks at a 1967 mishap involving a torpedo that somehow activated inside the submarine during a training exercise. Although the torpedo didn't explode, the cause of this potentially disastrous problem, he writes, was never determined. Johnson also examines a number of characters in this drama. He writes that "the crew quickly warmed" to Cmdr. Francis Atwood Slattery and Lt. Cmdr. David Lloyd after they took command in late 1967. "Scorpion sailors who served under the two later spoke well of the submarine's two top officers." We also meet the fantastically lucky Sonarman Bob Davis, who had been sentenced to 30 days' confinement in Norfolk's Camp Allen brig because he missed the Scorpion's departure by 15 minutes. More

New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., Inc., 1957. Eleventh Printing. 280, illus., endpaper maps, lib stamps & pocket, sm stains & library stamp to fore-edge, bds stained & worn, spine edges threadbare. More

New York: Rinehart, [1954]. 21 cm, 442, illus., slightly cocked. More

Greenwich, CT: Brompton, 1990. Third Printing. 192, glossary, index, some edge wear. More

Garden City, NY: Garden City Books, 1959. Book Club Edition. 22 cm, 215, illus., front board weak, bookplate, pencil erasure on front endpaper. More

New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1985. Second Printing [Stated]. Trade paperback. 596 pages. Co-Author's Notes. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Edwin Thomas Layton (April 7, 1903 – April 12, 1984) was a rear admiral in the United States Navy. Layton is most noted for his work as an intelligence officer during WWII. Layton was in charge of all intelligence in the Pacific Ocean area. Layton was a champion of using code-breaking information in war planning operations. Layton's book describes how Kimmel and his army counterpart at Pearl Harbor, General Walter C. Short, the commanders there, were scapegoats for failures by higher-ups in Washington, D.C. The late Admiral Layton, who was the fleet intelligence officer for Admiral Nimitz through out World War II, describes the breakdown in the intelligence process prior to the bombing of Pearl Harbor, and shares his experiences witnessing feuding among high-level naval officers in Washington that contributed to Japan's successful attack. Roger Pineau entered the Navy in 1942 and spent most of World War II at the Naval Communications Annex in Washington, where he worked in code-breaking operations. In 1947, he became an assistant to Samuel E. Morrison, a Harvard University historian and Navy rear admiral who wrote the official Navy history of World War II. John Edward Costello (1943-1995) was a British military historian, who wrote about World War I, World War II and the Cold War. He then worked as a director and scriptwriter for the BBC before writing on military history. More

New York: Scribner, c1988. First Printing. 24 cm, 464, illus., maps, figures, appendix, notes, index. Presentation copy inscribed by the author. More