Author: Dudley Pope
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: books, bluejacket, navy, nelson, life
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 1996-08
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 1557505160
ISBN-13: 9781557505163

Author: Lennarth Petersson
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: craft, aft, fore, period, rigging
Number of Pages: 128
Published: 2007-06-29
List price: $42.95
ISBN-10: 1591147212
ISBN-13: 9781591147213

The rigging of period ship models is arguably the most complex and daunting task for the modeler. An eighteenth-century man-of-war boasted mile upon mile of rigging, over 1,000 blocks, and acres of canvas. To reduce the rigging in scale and yet retain an accurate representation is a formidable undertaking. This follow-up to Lennarth Petersson s highly successful Rigging Period Ship Models does for fore-and-aft rig what his earlier book did for square rig. Taking as examples a French eighteenth-century lugger, an English cutter, and an American schooner, Petersson demonstrated in beautiful

Authors:Michael Peterson, David Perlmutt,
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Keywords: company, love, marines, shoes, charlie
Number of Pages: 214
Published: 1998-11
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1557506728
ISBN-13: 9781557506726

Author: Edwin H. Daniels
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Keywords: rigger, sailing, square, manual, seamanship, eagle
Number of Pages: 216
Published: 1990-06-01
List price: $23.95
ISBN-10: 0870212516
ISBN-13: 9780870212512

Author: Lynne Joiner
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Keywords: persecution, john, service, america, mccarthy, survivor, mao, china, honorable
Number of Pages: 450
Published: 2009-10-07
List price: $37.95
ISBN-10: 159114423X
ISBN-13: 9781591144236

Honorable Survivor weaves John S. Service’s extraordinary story into the fabric of a watershed moment in our history when World War II was ending, the Cold War was dawning, and the McCarthy era witch-hunters were stirring. The book reveals how people, policy, and politics mix to create the circumstances of our lives--and the experiences of one man who came to be at the center of a series of extraordinary events involving the fate of nations. A true story of intrigue, adventure, persecution, and redemption and the love of a loyal American wife and a Chinese lover, this biography chronicle

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.