Sea power : a naval history / editor, E. B. Potter ; associate editor, Chester W. Nimitz; assistant editors, J. R. Fredland [and] Henry H. Adams ; authors, Henry H. Adams [and others]

Adams, Henry Hitch (1917-2002)

1960, 1st edition. Englewood Cliffs, N.J. : Prentice-Hall. Fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #472867

Physical description: xii, 932 pages : illustrations, maps ; 26 cm. Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 886-901) and index. Contents: The age of galley warfare -- The rise of English sea power -- The Seven Years' War -- The War of the American Revolution, I -- The War of the American Revolution, II -- The War of the French Revolution -- Nelson and Bonaparte -- The campaign of Trafalgar -- The decline and fall of the French empire -- The beginnings of the United States Navy -- The War of 1812 -- Navies in transition, 1815-1860 -- The American Civil War: the blockade and the cruisers -- The new technology: ironclads in action -- The Mississippi Valley Campaign, I: the road to Vicksburg -- The Mississippi Valley Campaign, II: Vicksburg and after -- Closing the Confederate ports -- Naval developments in the late 19th century -- The rise of Japanese naval power -- The Spanish-American War -- The United States becomes a naval power -- World War I: opening operations -- The campaign for Constantinople.
The Battle of Jutland -- The war against shipping -- Disarmament and rearmament -- World War II: Atlantic surface operations, I -- Atlantic surface operations, II -- The struggle for the Mediterranean -- The Battle of the Atlantic -- The Allied offensive against North Africa -- Operations against Sicily and Italy -- The defeat of Germany -- Problems of the Pacific -- The period of Japanese expansion -- Midway and the Aleutians -- Guadalcanal -- The limited offensive -- Beginning the central Pacific drive -- The dual advance to the Philippines -- The Battle for Leyte Gulf -- Submarines in the Pacific -- The defeat of Japan -- The uneasy peace -- The Korean War -- The new Navy. Subject: United States History, Naval.

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