Seven Pulitzer Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience: service in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard during World War II. Best-selling novelists, historians, science writers, and journalists, most of these authors are well known--Herman Wouk, James Michener, Alex Haley, Russell Baker, Edward L. Beach, Carl Rowan, Lewis Thomas, Ben Bradlee, Sloan Wilson, C. Vann Woodward, Louis Auchincloss, and Samuel Eliot Morison, to name a few. But readers may not be aware of their wartime service at sea.
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Seven Pulitzer Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience:...
This book describes the early exploits around the globe of a young naval officer who would become a World War II hero.After touring the U. S. S. Pittsburgh in 1926, James Thurber described it as the "Playship of the World," where the daily lives of officers were akin to "living in the sort of Utopia in which old romantic plays used to drop their curtain and old romantic books close their final page." Indicative of this adventurous, carefree, and relatively risk-free period between the world wars was the early career of a young naval officer, Dan Gallery, who would eventually achieve the rank...
This book describes the early exploits around the globe of a young naval officer who would become a World War II hero.After touring the U. S. S. Pitts...
