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The Greatest U.S.
Navy Stories Ever Told
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Edited by Iain C. Martin
$24.95 T19137 |
On Friday, October 13, 1775,
Congress decided to send two ships to harass the vessels supplying the
British Army in America, thereby creating what would become the most
powerful navy in the history of the world. Since that fateful day in
Philadelphia, the men and women of the United States Navy have created the
finest traditions of service and honor, and supplied a pantheon of heroes
who have upheld them. In The Greatest U.S. Navy Stories Ever Told, editor
Iain Martin has accumulated these sailors’ most amazing true tales of
service and sacrifice, from John Paul Jones’s famous address in 1779 before
beating the vastly superior HMS Serapis: I have not yet begun to fight!”to
the carrier pilots and personnel who patrol in the Persian Gulf today.
James Fenimore Cooper recounts the story of the navy’s oldest ship still in
commission, the USS Constitution (“Old Ironsides”) as she defeated HMS
Levant and HMS Cyane in one of the most impressive feats of wartime
seamanship in the days of sail. George Dewey gives an eyewitness account of
the victory over the Spanish in Manila Bay on May 1, 1898, at the dawn of
the American Century and subsequent U.S. supremacy in the Pacific.
From Joe Rochefort’s contributions during the miraculous and pivotal victory
at Midway and the terrifying experience of a tooth-rattling depth-charge
attack deep beneath the waves in the Silent Service, to the capture of the
U-505 by Dan Gallery and the tense cat-and-mouse games between submarines in
the Cold War, The Greatest U.S. Navy Stories Ever Told recounts the most
remarkable characters of the U.S. Navy, and the unforgettable stories they
lived.
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