American Naval History: A Very Short Introduction

ISBN-13: 9780199394760 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 168 str.

Erne Craig L. (Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History

Opis

This brisk narrative charts the history of the United States Navy from its birth during the American Revolution through its emergence as a global power amid the world wars of the twentieth century and finally to its current role as a superpower in the twenty-first century.

Recenzje

A short introduction this may be, but it still is delightfully swift yet thorough guide through 200 year of US naval history. Military History Monthly

O autorze

Craig L. Symonds is Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History at the U.S. Naval War College. He is the author of ten previous books, including The Battle of Midway, The Civil War at Sea, Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings, and Decision at Sea: Five Naval Battles that Shaped American History, which won the Theodore and Franklin D. Roosevelt Prize in 2006.