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The Brassey's Book of Naval Blunders by Geoffrey Regan

"At last, the best selling Blunders series has become available in the United States. Originally published in England by Guinness, this long awaited and wildly successful series has already sold over 260,000 copies. This special edition of Naval Blunders has been rewritten by Geoffrey Regan, with additional American material and many new illustrations.
The Brassey's Book of Naval Blunders is a fascinating catalog of naval incompetence from Roman times to the Gulf War. Crammed with the intriguing and the bizarre, and embellished with fifty illustrations, Naval Blunders is a serious but entertaining look at the follies and misjudgments - and sometimes the bad luck - of captains, fleet commanders, strategic planners, and ship designers.
Who was responsible for the design of the Admiral Popov, the circular Russian battleship that wouldn't steer straight? Why did Chile's Admiral Grau fire one torpedo, then bury the rest of his supply in a cemetery? How did HMS Trinidad manage to torpedo itself in the Arctic in 1942? Why was an American naval ship nicknamed "The Love Boat"? And what of the Indianapolis, the American cruiser whose mission was so secret that no one knew it had gone missing when it was sunk by a Japanese torpedo?
The book includes in-depth analyses of the blunders in key naval battles and campaigns such as Drepana, Navarmno, Manila Bay, Midway and the Medway, the Dardanelles, Coronel, Dogger Bank, and Leyte Gulf."

Dulles, Virginia, Brassey's:2000, ISBN 1-57488-253-8

The Carrier War (the Epic of Flight series) by Clark G. Reynolds

Alexandria, Virginia, Time-Life Books:1982, ISBN 0-8094-3307-9

The Fast Carriers by Clark G. Reynolds

"Based on official records, personal interviews, private diaries, and an impressive array of published works, this classic study offers a complete record of the heated debates that took place over the concept of the fast carrier and the U.S. Navy's metamorphosis from a battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet during World War II. The battle of the air admirals, such as Mitscher, Towers, Radford, and the Shermans, to gain control of the fleet from the battleship admirals, in the midst of war, is nowhere told more fully or with such an insider's grasp of personalities involved with the changing naval strategy.
Clark G. Reynolds's thorough analysis of fast carrier operations takes the reader from the war rooms in Washington to the flight decks in the Pacific with ease and excitement. It is his willingness to pass critical judgment on personalities and events, and his ability to communicate clearly the bureaucratic squabbles and the fight against the foreign enemy, that puts this book far above any other work in its field. Now, twenty-four years after its first publication, The Fast Carriers remains essential reading for naval professionals and historians - evidence of its strong scholarship and enduring value in the face of a naval strategy again in flux.
Illustrated with more than 90 photographs and completed with a dramatis personae, extensive appendixes, chapter notes, and bibliographic essay, this reprint introduces a new generation of readers to a frank and thoughtful study of the genesis of the carrier fleet."

Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press:1968, ISBN 1-55750-701-5 (hardcover) Provided by a gift from Enrique and Irma Landin

The Aircraft Carrier Intrepid by John Roberts

Annapolis, Maryland, Naval Institute Press:1982, ISBN 0-87021-901-4 courtesy San Antonio Public Library

Aliens, Robots and Spaceships by Jeff Rovin

"In film, television, literature, comic books, and popular culture, the creatures of science fiction and fantasy have thrilled, chilled, and dazzled people of all ages for decades. Now here they are in one essential reference: strange entities, futuristic machines, beings from faraway galaxies, and heroes of spine-tingling adventures - over 600 in all.
From Chewbacca to Vampirella, Jurassic Park to Supergirl, Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships is the ultimate A-to-Z encyclopedia of the unimaginable, featuring over 100 illustrations and a user-friendly format. Included are exciting accounts of superheroes and spacecraft from places one never dreamed and times one never fathomed. Written for fans and converts alike, Aliens, Robots, and Spaceships is an encyclopedic look at science fiction and fantasy past, present, and future."

New York, N.Y., Facts on File:1995, ISBN 0-8160-3113-4

Webmaster's note: This is not a joke. Parts of many science fiction movies were filmed aboard aircraft carriers - the race scene from "Silent Running", for example, and, of course, almost all of "The Final Countdown".

To Die Gallantly: The Battle of the Atlantic edited by Timothy J. Runyan & Jan M. Copes

"They were known as 'iron coffins' - the German U-boats that terrorized Allied shipping during World War II. In this volume commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Battle of the Atlantic, historians from both sides of the ocean offer new insights into the conflict.
The Battle of the Atlantic was the most important campaign of the war, for Allied success in Europe depended on massive movements of ships, men, and materiel across the Atlantic from the Americas. In spite of an unprecedented Allied shipbuilding effort, German U-boats were causing severe damage to this vital supply line; unless the deadly U-boat menace could be eliminated, the Allies would be unable to defeat Nazi Germany.
The cost in lives lost and ships sunk was appalling, but statistics alone do not reflect the human dimension of this most terrible sea fight. It is a story of incredible courage and unspeakable cruelty, one in which calculated risks and life-or-death decisions became commonplace. It is a story of the combined efforts of planners and strategists, spies and codebreakers, naval officers and crews, merchant mariners, and civilians at home in both Allied and Axis nations to achieve an end to the carnage at sea. And it is a story of the triumph of technology, as Allied advances in radar and sonar ultimately led to victory over the German wolfpacks.
The book makes an important contribution to the history of World War II, examining both much-studied and lesser-known aspects of this critical campaign. Its contributors provide a comprehensive account of all who participated in this long and costly effort: those who planned, those who fought, those who waited, and those who died."

Boulder, Colorado, Westview Press:1994, ISBN 0-8133-2332-0 (softcover) Provided by a gift from Rose & Margaret Foerster

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