Author: Kemp Tolley
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: paperback, series, bluejacket, china, patrol, navy, yangtze
Number of Pages: 364
Published: 2000-05-15
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1557508836
ISBN-13: 9781557508836

Foreword by Victor H. Krulak. The U.S. Navy’s patrol of the Yangtze River began in 1854 when the USS Susquehanna was sent to China to safeguard increasing American commerce in the region. As Kemp Tolley explains in this entertaining history of the patrol in which he was to later serve, the presence of gunboats along the river greatly benefited the integrity of the shoreline factories. Tolley was a young naval officer in the 1930s when assigned gunboat duty, first in the Mindanao, then in the Tutuila, and finally the Wake in August 1941. His colorful description of life as a "river rat

Author: Adm. James Stavridis USN
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Keywords: command, first, lessons, captain, destroyer
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2008-03-03
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 1591148499
ISBN-13: 9781591148494

This memoir of James Stavridis’ two years in command of the destroyer USS Barry (DDG-52) reveals the human side of what it is like to be in charge of a warship for the first time and in the midst of international crisis. From Haiti to the Balkans to the Arabian Gulf, the Barry was involved in operations throughout the world during his 1993-1995 tour. Drawing on daily journals he kept for the entire period, the author reveals the complex nature of those deployments in a ’real time’ context and describes life on board the Barry and liberty ashore for sailors and officers alike.

Authors:Gregory Fontenot, E.J. Degen, David Tohn,
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: iraqi, freedom, operation, army, united, states, point
Number of Pages: 539
Published: 2005-05-01
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1591142792
ISBN-13: 9781591142799

Foreword by Gen. Tommy R. Franks, USA (Ret.) This hard-hitting, authoritative account of U.S. Army operations during the Second Gulf War draws on official records and work carried out by the Army’s Operation Iraqi Freedom Study Group. The authors cover everything from logistical operations to gunfights at platoon level to help readers understand the complexity, scale, and rigors of the war and what it was like for the solders in the field. As Gen. Tommy Franks says in the foreword, the book is far more than a standard campaign history. It not only puts the Army’s story in the context of

Authors:Yoshida Mitsuru, Richard H. Minear, Mitsuru Yoshida,
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: books, bluejacket, yamato, battleship, requiem
Number of Pages: 152
Published: 1999-04
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 1557505446
ISBN-13: 9781557505446

Requiem for Battleship Yamato is Yoshida Mitsuru’s story of his own experience as a junior naval officer aboard the fabled Japanese battleship as it set out on a last, desperate sortie in April 1945. Yoshida was on the bridge during Yamato’s fatal encounter with American airplanes, and his eloquent, moving account of that battle makes a singular contribution to the literature of the Pacific war. The book has long been considered a classic in both Japan and the United States. As with most great battle stories, its ultimate concern is less bombs and bullets than human natu

Authors:William P. MacK, Harry A. Seymour, Lesa A. McComas,
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: eleventh, guide, officer, naval
Number of Pages: 408
Published: 1998-12
List price: $32.95
ISBN-10: 1557506450
ISBN-13: 9781557506450

Author: Bernard Ireland
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: atlantic, battle
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-10
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 1591140323
ISBN-13: 9781591140320

Noted naval historian Bernard Ireland takes a fresh look at the long and bitter struggle waged by the Allies against Nazi U-boats in the Atlantic. After sifting through the evidence--some just recently released--he questions the popular theory that the Allies triumphed by the narrowest of margins. Calling attention to the massive resources the United States brought to bear both at sea and in American shipyards, as well as advances in technology and the breaking of German enigma codes, he argues that the Allied victory was a foregone conclusion. Ireland cites statistics to show that there w

Author: Jeremy Travis
Publisher: Urban Institute Press
Keywords: reentry, prisoner, challenges, facing, come
Number of Pages: 391
Published: 2005-02-28
List price: $32.50
ISBN-10: 0877667500
ISBN-13: 9780877667506

As our justice system has embarked upon one of the greatest social experiments of our time-the expansive use of prisons as our response to crime-we have forgotten the iron law of imprisonment: they all come back. In 2002 alone, more than 630,000 individuals left federal and state prisons-compared with the 150,000 who made a similar journey 30 years ago. Sadly, in the intense political debate over America’s punishment policies, the impact of these returning prisoners on families and communities has been largely overlooked. In But They All Come Back, Jeremy Travis continues his pioneering work