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2008 spring catalog NAVAL INSTITUTE PRESS table of contents 01 New Publications 13 General Interest 21 Bluejacket Books Paperback Series 22 Biographies and Memoirs 23 Fiction 24 Age of Sail 24 Civil War 24 World War I and the New Century 25 World War II 27 Cold War 27 Vietnam 27 Current Events and War 27 Aviation 30 Modelling 28 Ships and Aircraft References 30 Navigation and Seamanship 30 Military Family and Etiquette Guides 30 Professional Reading and References 31 Blue & Gold Professional Library The Naval Institute Press is the book-publishing arm of the U.S. Naval Institute, a private, nonprofit, membership society for sea service professionals and others who share an interest in naval and maritime affairs. Established in 1873 at the U.S. Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland, where its offices remain today, the Naval Institute has members worldwide. The Naval Institute’s book-publishing program, begun in 1898 with basic guides to naval practices, has broadened its scope to include books of more general interest. Now the Naval Institute Press publishes about seventy titles each year, ranging from how-to books on boating and navigation to battle histories, biographies, ship and aircraft guides, and novels. For more information about the U.S. Naval Institute and its services, please call us at 800-233-8764 or 410-268-6110, or write to Customer Service at the U.S. Naval Institute, 291 Wood Road, Annapolis, Maryland 21402-5034. Visit out website at www.usni.org. N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THE LOST BATTALION OF TET Breakout of the 2/12th Cavalry at Hue, Revised Edition By Charles A. Krohn Published to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Tet Offensive, this new paperback edition brings back into print a book that became an essential source for a 2006 study of the battle by the U.S. Army’s Center of Military History. It takes a critical look at what went wrong in early 1968 during one of the first engagements of Tet, when a U.S. infantry battalion was ordered to attack a large North Vietnamese force near Hue City without air or artillery support. The tragic military foul-up resulted in over 60 percent casualties for the 2d Battalion, 12th Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division, when the soldiers were surrounded by the enemy and began running out of ammunition. The bold decision by battalion commander Lt. Col. Richard Sweet to break out with his remaining soldiers under cover of darkness saved this encirclement from being a total disaster. Krohn, the unit’s intelligence officer at the time, provides a much-needed analysis of what took place and fills his account with details that have been confirmed as factual by other survivors. Krohn examines the battalion’s involvement in two other major attacks for lessons learned when vital systems break down—lessons, he says, that are timeless and applicable anywhere. This book is published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army. Charles A. Krohn, a retired U.S. Army lieutenant colonel, is a combat veteran of Vietnam. As a civilian, he served as the Pentagon’s deputy chief of public affairs from 2001 to 2004, including three months in Iraq as an adviser to the director of the Infrastructure Reconstruction Program. Recently, he was a visiting professor of journalism at the University of Michigan. A resident of Burke, VA, he now works for the American Battle Monuments Commission. s february 210 pp., 29 b/w photos, 9 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-434-2 Paperback: $23.95 History • VIETNAM “A young soldier’s duty is to fight, and an old soldier’s duty is to remember. This updated edition of Charles Krohn’s first-hand account of the 2-/12 Calvalry at Hue is the best sort of remembering: gripping, inspiring, and tragically timely. In warfare, the names and places change, but human foibles and human heroism stay exactly the same.” —Nathaniel Fick, author of One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S TIP OF THE SPEAR U.S. Marine Light Armor in the Gulf War By G. J. Michaels Selected for the Marine Commandant’s Reading List when first published in hardcover, this book offers a vivid, firsthand account of Operation Desert Storm during the Gulf War. A U.S. Marine sergeant in Alpha Company of the 1st Light Armored Vehicle Battalion (LAV), Michaels provides a revealing look at what it was like to endure and prevail in ground combat at the platoon and company levels. Readers are given an opportunity to look inside the battalion as it battles a savage environment and a host of tactical snafus while pushing forward at the tip of the spear to help liberate Kuwait City from the Iraqis. G. J. Michaels enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1984. After serving in the Gulf War, he became an instructor in the LAV Leaders course at Camp Pendleton. He is now a master sergeant with the Recruiting Command in Indiana. JANUARY 280 pp., 14 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-498-4 Paperback: $19.95 HISTORY • GULF WAR F766F:A?7K )--/24!, )-!'%3 !0ERSONAL(ISTORYOF FIAB:AFA9D3B:7DE3@6F:7 8>39D3;E;@9A@;IA<;?3 IMMORTAL IMAGES A Personal History of Two Photographers and the Flag Raising on Iwo Jima By Tedd Thomey Award-winning journalist Tedd Thomey tells the poignant stories of the two photographers who took the pictures of the flag raising sent around the world in 1945. Joe Rosenthal, a combat photographer for the Associated Press, became well known for his work, but when accusations surfaced that his famous photo was staged, he endured years of abuse and humiliation. Thomey also highlights the tragic story of the second photographer, Sgt. Bill Genaust, a Marine killed in battle just nine days after the flag went up. Genaust was not acknowledged for his immortal motion picture until a fellow cameraman mounted a decades-long campaign that resulted in a plaque in his honor being placed atop Mount Suribachi in 1995. Tedd Thomey served with the 28th Regiment, 5th Marine Division in the Pacific throughout World War II and went on to become a journalist, playwright, and author of twenty books. He lives in Long Beach, CA. march 247 pp., 29 photos, 4 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-854-8 Paperback: $19.95 History • military • world war ii | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S SLAUGHTER AT GOLIAD The Mexican Massacre of 400 Texas Volunteers By Jay A. Stout Texas lost many volunteers during its hard-won fight for independence from Mexico, but one harrowing episode stands out. Following a one-sided battle on the prairie near Coleto Creek, 250 mostly American prisoners were marched back to the presidio at Goliad where they were joined by more than 200 others. Subsequently, on orders from President Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna, they were brutally slaughtered on Palm Sunday, March 27, 1836. The loss of so many fighting men in a single day was, at the time, one of the largest in U.S. history. The reaction in Texas was one of horror, fear, and, for some, a lust for revenge. The revulsion felt throughout the United States turned American sympathies against Mexico and its efforts to preserve its territorial integrity. Based on extensive research, this book offers a powerful description of what happened and an astute analysis of why it happened. For historical background, it also presents an overview of Texas and Mexican history and the factors that led to the massacre. s APRIL 288 pp, 24 photos, 4 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-843-2 Hardcover: $29.95 History • MILITARY Also available from the Naval Institute Press • Hornets Over Kuwait ISBN: 978-1-55750-835-5 $34.95, Hardcover, 1997. As a career military officer, author Jay Stout offers insights not grasped by other writers on the subject. He pays particular attention to the leadership on both sides during the revolution and discusses why the massacre has been largely ignored in the years since. Stout deglamorizes the fight against Santa Anna and his army, while at the same time acknowledging the Mexican perspective and the motivations of Mexico’s leaders. The author’s dynamic writing style, combined with the compelling subject matter, makes this book attractive to everyone interested in the military, Texas, and American history. Jay A. Stout, now a senior analyst in the defense industry, spent twenty years as a U.S. Marine Corps fighter pilot flying F-4s and F/A-18s. During the Gulf War he flew thirty-seven combat missions. An Indiana native and 1981 graduate of Purdue University, he now lives in San Diego, CA. Stout is also the author of Hornets over Kuwait, The First Hellcat Ace and Hammer from Above: Marine Air Combat over Iraq, among other books. TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S NIMITZ By E. B. Potter Called a great book worthy of a great man, this definitive biography of the commander in chief of the Pacific Fleet in World War II, first published in 1976 and now available in paperback for the first time, continues to be considered the best book ever written about Adm. Chester W. Nimitz. Highly respected by both the civilian and naval communities, Nimitz was sometimes overshadowed by more colorful warriors such as MacArthur and Halsey. Potter’s lively and authoritative style fleshes out Admiral Nimitz’s personality to help readers appreciate the contributions he made as the principal architect of Japan’s defeat. The book covers his full life, from a poverty-stricken childhood to postwar appointments as Chief of Naval Operations and U.N. mediator. It candidly reveals Nimitz’s opinions of Halsey, Kimmel, King, Spruance, MacArthur, Forrestal, Roosevelt, and Truman. E. B. Potter is the coauthor, with Admiral Nimitz, of Sea Power: A Naval History, and the author of Bull Halsey and Admiral Arleigh Burke. “An absolute must for everyone interested in the Pacific War.” —Herman Wouk MARCH 544 pp., 18 b/w photos, 26 maps, 7” x 10” ISBN: 978-1-59114-580-6 Paperback: $21.95 BIOGRAPHY • world war ii THE FAST CARRIERS The Forging of an Air Navy By Clark G. Reynolds Originally published in 1968, this now classic study is considered essential reading for its analysis of fast aircraft carrier development. It provides a fascinating record not only of the U.S. Navy’s metamorphosis from a battleship-oriented to a carrier-centered fleet, but also of the heated debates that took place over the changing naval strategy. With an insider’s grasp of the personalities involved, award-winning naval historian Clark G. Reynolds takes readers from the war rooms of Washington to the flight decks of the Pacific. He vividly describes the battles over the concept of fast carriers between the air admirals and battleship admirals and offers littleknown details gleaned from personal interviews and private diaries. Clark G. Reynolds was professor emeritus of the College of Charleston in South Carolina. He is also the author of On the Warpath in the Pacific: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers and Admiral John H. Towers: The Struggle for Naval Air Supremacy. MARCH 536 pp., 85 b/w photos, 3 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-55750-701-3 Cloth: $39.95 History • world war iI | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S CONTRAILS OVER THE MOJAVE The Golden Age of Jet Flight Testing at Edwards Air Force Base By George J. Marrett In Contrails over the Mojave, Marrett takes off where author Tom Wolfe’s The Right Stuff ended in 1963. Marrett started the Air Force Test Pilot School at Edwards AFB only two weeks after the school’s commander, Col. Chuck Yeager, ejected from a Lockheed NF-104 trying to set a world altitude record. He describes life as a space cadet experiencing 15 Gs in a human centrifuge, zeroG maneuvers in a KC-135 “Vomit Comet,” and a flight to 80,000 feet in a Lockheed F-104A Starfighter. After graduating from Yeager’s “Charm School,” he was assigned to the Fighter Branch of Flight Test Operations for three years. There he flew the Air Force’s latest fighter aircraft and chased other test aircraft like the X-15 rocket ship and the XB-70A Valkyrie as they set world speed and altitude records. s MARCH 264 pp., 37 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-511-0 Hardcover: $29.95 History • AVIATION Also available from the Naval Institute Press • Howard Hughes: Aviator ISBN: 978-1-59114-510-3 $27.95, Hardcover, 2004 “Marrett describes life as a space cadet and relives stories of crashes, of setting world speed records, and of conducting a dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy.” Marrett takes you into the cockpit with him “going vertical” in a T-38 Talon, high-G maneuvering in an F-4C Phantom, and on wet runway landing tests in the accidentprone F-111A Aardvark. Marrett relives stories of crashes when his test pilot friends were killed. He writes about Air Force test pilot Col. “Silver Fox” Stephens setting a world speed record in the YF-12 Blackbird and Lockheed test pilot Bob Gilliland flying a single-engine, minimum-control speed stall in the SR-71 spy plane. He recounts dead-sticking a T-38 to a landing on Rogers Dry Lake after a twin-engine failure and conducting dangerous tail hook barrier testing in a fighter jet without a canopy. Marrett also writes about a UFO sighting in the night sky above the Mojave Desert, a mysterious sighting now referred to as “The Edwards Encounter.” George J. Marrett flew 188 combat missions in the Douglas A-1 Skyraider in Vietnam and tested more than forty types of military aircraft in twenty-five years as a test pilot for the Air Force and Hughes Aircraft Company. He is a member of the Society of Experimental Test Pilots and of the Board of Trustees, National Test Pilot School, Mojave, CA. He is the author of Howard Hughes: Aviator; Cheating Death: Combat Air Rescues in Vietnam and Laos; and Testing Death: Hughes Aircraft Test Pilots and Cold War Weaponry. Now retired, he lives in Atascadero, CA. TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THE TERRORIST PERSPECTIVES PROJECT Strategic and Operational Views of Al Qaida and Associated Movements By Mark E. Stout, Jessica M. Huckabey, and John R. Schindler with Jim Lacey THE CANONS OF JIHAD Terrorists’ Strategy for Defeating America Edited by Jim Lacey A TERRORIST’S CALL TO GLOBAL JIHAD Deciphering Abu Musab al-Suri’s Islamic Jihad Manifesto Edited by Jim Lacey This timely book synthesizes the perspectives of Osama bin Laden and his fellow Salafi jihadists on how to wage war on their enemies. A team of experts from the Institute for Defense Analyses undertook the study to help U.S. military and civilian policymakers, planners, and educators better understand terrorists. In assembling strategic and operational perspectives of Al Qaida and Associated Movements (AQAM), the team focused on the Salafi jihadists’ intellectual leadership and a sampling of their followers, who together comprise the vanguard of the global jihad and share a common enemy—the West. Since the 9/11 attacks, scholars have struggled to help Westerners understand what motivates the jihadi movement. Jim Lacey provides a definitive collection of writings that intellectually underpins the movement. Rather than guessing about terrorist motivations from a Western perspective, readers are offered essays—including those by the founder of the Muslim Brotherhood, Hasan al-Banna, and a leading early member, Sayed Qutb—that define the movement through the eyes of the terrorists themselves. As jihadist cadres begin to rebuild, Lacey notes that they are turning once again to their original thinkers to justify their actions. MARCH 240 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-463-2 Paperback: $18.00 MARCH 216 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-461-8 Paperback: $18.00 The U.S. counterintelligence community identifies Abu Musab al-Suri as the most important theorist of the global Islamic jihad and considers his manifesto to be the most important strategic document produced by al Qaida or any jihadi organization in more than a decade. But to Americans his 1,600-page manuscript largely consists of incomprehensible, impenetrable Islamic scholarship. With this publication, defense analyst Jim Lacey delivers a meaningful distillation of al-Suri’s Call to Global Islamic Jihad, a work that has been called the Mein Kampf of the movement. MARCH 300 pp., 8 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-462-5 Paperback: $19.00 POLITICAL SCIENCe • TERRORISM POLITICAL SCIENCe • TERRORISM POLITICAL SCIENCe • TERRORISM Mark E. Stout is a defense analyst at the Institute for Defense Analyses in Alexandria, VA, and collaborated with Jim Lacey on The Iraqi Perspectives Report. Lacey is also the author of Takedown. John R. Schindler, a professor at the U.S. Naval War College, is the author of Unholy Terror and Agents Provocateurs. Jessica M. Huckabey is an adjunct research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses. These books are published in cooperation with the United States Joint Forces Command. | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S FADING VICTORY The Diary of Admiral Matome Ugaki, 1941–1945 Edited by Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon Long out of print, these wartime diaries of a key admiral of the Imperial Japanese Navy provide a revealing inside look into the Japanese view of the Pacific War. Matome Ugaki was chief of staff of the Combined Fleet under Admiral Isoroku Yamamoto. He later served as commander of battleship and air fleets, finally directing the kamikaze attacks off Okinawa. Invaluable for its details of the Japanese navy at war, the diaries offer a running appraisal of the fighting and are augmented by editorial commentary that proves especially useful to American readers eager to see the war from the other side. When first published in 1991, this dairy was hailed as a major contribution to World War II literature. Donald Goldstein and Katherine Dillon co-authored, with Gordon Prange, the best-sellers At Dawn We Slept and Miracle at Midway. MARCH 750 pp., 47 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-324-6 Paperback: $35.95 HISTORY • World war ii SLAUGHTER AT SEA War Crimes of the Imperial Japanese Navy By Mark Felton Even the most knowledgeable reader will be shocked by the extent of the crimes committed against servicemen and civilians revealed in this chilling new study. From the regular execution of POWs to the abandonment of survivors, Mark Felton takes a detailed look at this dark chapter in the history of the Japanese navy in World War II. Prior to this account, Japanese war crimes at sea have received relatively little attention compared to coverage of the Japanese army’s barbaric conduct. Written by a longtime resident of the Far East, this new work takes into account the culture that led to such appalling atrocities. Upon publication in the UK, the book drew major news coverage. Mark Felton teaches history at Shanghai University and is the author of Yanagai: The Secret Underwater Trade between Japan and Germany and The Fujita Plan: Japanese Submarine Attacks on the United States and Australia. MARCH 226 pp., 8 pp b/w photos., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-263-8 Hardcover: $39.95 (USAC) History • world War II TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S CHINA’S ENERGY STRATEGY kson oldstein urray china’s energy strategy the impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies edited by Gabriel b. Collins, andrew s. eriCkson, lyle J. Goldstein, and william s. murray institute Joint publiCation of the China maritime studies institute and the naval institute press The Impact on Beijing’s Maritime Policies Edited by Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, Lyle J. Goldstein, & William S. Murray A variety of viewpoints is offered in this timely analysis of China’s economy and the future shape of Beijing’s energy consumption. The authors, all noted authorities in the fields of economics, diplomacy, energy, and defense, consider an unprecedented range of influences and factors to avoid the limitations of looking at the subject myopically or with political bias. They conclude that while energy insecurity could eventually lead to an arms race at sea or even a naval conflict that neither side wants, there is ample room for Sino-American energy dialogue and cooperation in the maritime domain. Gabriel B. Collins, Andrew S. Erickson, and Lyle J. Goldstein are professors and specialists on China at the U.S. Naval War College in Newport, RI, and founding members of the Navy’s China Maritime Studies Institute. William S. Murray, a retired naval officer who qualified to command nuclear submarines and made Cold War deployments in the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, is an associate research professor at the Naval War College. JUNE 576 pp., 54 illus., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-330-7 Hardcover: $47.95 POLITICAL SCIENCE • INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS SOLE SURVIVORS OF THE SEA By James E. Wise Jr. The incredible stories of twenty-two lone survivors of maritime disasters are presented in this collection of war and peacetime incidents. The dramatic accounts—including those of a British sailor who survived 133 days at sea on an open raft and a German sailor who spent 28 hours in the ocean without a life preserver—are based on a wide array of sources, including interviews with the survivors and their families and official records to back up their accuracy. Most took place in World War II, when the navies and merchant fleets of many nations roamed the seas. Each story is one of boundless courage, a tenacious will to survive, and, in many cases, good luck. James E. Wise Jr., a retired naval aviator and intelligence officer in the U.S. Navy, is the author and coauthor of many books, including Women at War: Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts, Stars in Blue: Movie Actors in America’s Sea Services, and U-505: The Final Journey. He lives in Alexandria, VA. Also available from the Naval Institute Press • The Navy Cross ISBN: 978-1-59114-945-3 $34.95, Hardcover, 2007 MARCH 218 pp., 30 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-943-9 Paperback: $16.95 (Bluejacket Series) HISTORY • NAVAL | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S BECTON Autobiography of a Soldier and Public Servant By Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.) This autobiography, published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army, highlights Becton’s remarkable career and reveals the influences that contributed to his success. Becton’s autobiography reflects on his youth in the suburban Philadelphia area, his parental and family influences, and his almost forty years of service in the U.S. Army and in subsequent civilian appointments. His devotion to leadership, education, service, race, and his spiritual upbringing are all central themes in the book. s FEBRUARY 420 pp., 50 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-021-4 Hardcover: $29.95 BIOGRAPHY • MILITARY “In 2007 Becton received the George Catlett Marshall Medal, the highest award presented by the Association of the U.S. Army (AUSA) for being a ‘soldier, combat commander, administrator, educator, public servant, government leader, and role model.’” After finishing high school, Becton entered a segregated Army at age eighteen and over nearly forty years rose to the rank of lieutenant general. Two years after enlisting in the Army Air Corps Enlisted Reserve, he was commissioned a second lieutenant of infantry and subsequently fought with distinction in the Korean War. Integrated into the Regular Army in 1951, he went on to earn undergraduate and graduate degrees in mathematics and economics and held combat commands in the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam. He commanded the legendary 1st Cavalry Division in 1975–76. Promoted to lieutenant general in 1978, he served as commanding general of the U.S. VII Corps in Germany and deputy commander of Training and Doctrine Command and the Army Inspector of Training before retiring in 1983. Following retirement he entered fields of international disaster assistance, emergency management, and education. Becton joined the Reagan administration in 1984 as director of the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance for the Agency for International Development. From 1985 to 1989 he was director of the Federal Emergency Management Agency. Over the next six years he was the COO of American Coastal Industries and president of Prairie View A&M University. His final civilian post was as CEO/ superintendent of public schools in the District of Columbia. Becton was listed several times by Ebony magazine as “One of the 100 Most Influential Blacks in America.” In 2007 he was selected to receive the George Catlett Marshall Medal, the highest award presented by the Association of the U.S. Army for being a “soldier, combat commander, administrator, educator, public servant, government leader, and role model.” Lt. Gen. Julius W. Becton Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.), is a resident of Springfield, VA. He wrote the forewords for 761st Black Panther Tank Battalion in World War II and The Exclusion of Black Soldiers from the Medal of Honor in World War II. TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THE ARCHITECTURE OF LEADERSHIP By Donald T. Phillips and Adm. James M. Loy, USCG (Ret.) Architecture of Leadership is a simple but effective toolkit for leaders whose main theme is “preparation = performance.” Using the elements of architecture, they begin with a foundation of character and values, move to a floor representing a drive to achieve combined with the capacity to care, and continue with the framework of innate traits and acquired skills to the ceiling and roof of opportunity and performance, respectively. Supporting it all are the pillars of honesty, integrity, courage, respect, commitment, trust, ethics, and hard work. Donald T. Phillips is the author of Lincoln on Leadership and Martin Luther King Jr. on Leadership. Adm. James M. Loy if the former Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard. They coauthored Character in Action. MAY 96 pp., 15 b/w photos, 10 graphs, 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1-59114-474-8 Paperback: $16.95 BUSINESS & ECONOMICS • LEADERSHIP 10 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G THE NAVAL ARISTOCRACY The Golden Age of Annapolis and the Emergence of Modern American Navalism By Peter Karsten When this book first appeared in 1972, Karsten, a former naval officer, was taken to task for his portrayal of the Naval Academy and the officer corps. Although his conclusions riled more than a few senior officers, no one denied the significance of the study, and it was named Best Book of the Year by Phi Alpha Theta, the national history honorary society. The work focuses on the period after the Civil War when the U.S. emerged as a world power. This revelatory portrait of the officer corps in the late 19th and early 20th centuries has remained an important reference work for more than thirty-five years. Peter Karsten is author of the threevolume Encyclopedia on War and American Society. THE NAVAL INSTITUTE GUIDE TO NAVAL WRITING, 3rd Edition By Robert Shenk Written by a naval officer who taught English at two service academies, this is the third edition of the premier guide to professional writing for the naval services. The book is widely used by officers, enlisted men and women, and civilians in both the Navy and Marine Corps. Shenk provides sound, practical advice on all common naval writing assignments. This third edition adds a new chapter on writing emails and updates the entire book to take into account the way naval writing is done in today’s computer age. Robert Shenk, a retired captain in the U.S. Naval Reserve who taught at the U.S. Naval and Air Force academies, is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans. He is the author of The Naval Institute Guide to Naval Writing, 2nd Edition. APRIL 480 pp., 89 b/w photos, 11 line drawings, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-428-1 Paperback: $28.95 JANUARY 384 pp., 35 illus., 8 ½” x 11” ISBN: 978-1-59114-822-7 Paperback: $27.95 History • military REFERENCE N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE PACIFIC, 1897–1909 By William R. Braisted Professor William R. Braisted tells the story of the twelve important years during which the U.S. Navy won an undisputed place as a major force in the Pacific. Believing that the study of U.S. naval history has too often been written without adequate attention to economic, military, intellectual, and other motivating factors behind foreign policy, Braisted fully considers the interrelationship of naval and diplomatic policies that brought about the change. The author’s perceptive portraits of leading military and political figures of the times add an important dimension to the study. First published in 1977 and now available in paperback, the book continues to make an important contribution to the history of the U.S. Navy. APRIL 295 pp., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-087-0 Paperback: $19.95 History • military THE UNITED STATES NAVY IN THE PACIFIC, 1909–1922 By William R. Braisted In this continuation of his study of the interrelationship of naval and diplomatic policies, Braisted picks up the story in 1909 with the inauguration of President Taft and ends with the Washington Arms Conference of 1921–1922. He pays close attention to the efforts of U.S. naval leaders to secure the East Asian possessions of the United States against possible Japanese attack by assuring the Navy’s capacity to win and retain control of the western Pacific. For the first time, Braisted discusses the extraordinary naval building contract between the Bethlehem Steel Company and China in 1911 that committed the U.S. Navy to train Chinese naval personnel. Finally, the Washington Arms Conference is shown to have been a triumph for traditional American attitudes toward East Asia over the more ambitious aspirations of American naval leaders. This second volume of Braisted’s groundbreaking study is also now available in paperback for the first time. APRIL 760 pp., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-088-7 Paperback: $29.95 History • military William R. Braisted earned a Ph.D. from the University of Chicago and taught history at the University of Texas at Austin for many years. With a special interest in Far Eastern history, he lived for extended periods in China, Japan, and the Philippines and traveled widely throughout Asia. TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | 11 N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THE BATTLE OF THE RIVER PLATE A Grand Delusion JUNGLE WARFARE Experience and Encounters WARSHIP 2008 Edited by John Jordan By J. P. Cross This firsthand account of jungle warfare was written by a top military expert on the subject who draws from his own experiences fighting in Southeast Asia. A lifelong Gurkha of the British army, Cross cites examples from both the British and Japanese sides during World War II and goes on to demonstrate how tactics and strategy evolved in later campaigns in the Malay, Borneo, Vietnam, and Indochina theaters. Published in hardcover in 1989 and out of print for years, the book is now available for the first time in paperback. Pen & Sword will publish the simultaneous UK edition. This volume features articles on the Japanese navy carrier Hosho, the French prewar cruisers of the De Grasse class, small battleship designs, and the Battle of Calabria. It also presents features on the armored cruisers Scharnhorst and Gneisenau, postwar submarine development in the Royal Navy, and the Russian destroyers of the 7/7U class. An assortment of rare and unusual photographs and diagrams accompanies the text. A warship notes section includes information on a mysterious U-boat sinking, lost French naval archives, and the new Monitor and Merrimack museum, among other topics. Richard Woodman, a professional sailor best known for his popular Nathanial Drinkwater novels, is the author of many nonfiction studies of World War II naval subjects. J. P. Cross is a former commandant of the Jungle Warfare School in Malay and defense attaché in Laos. He now lives in Nepal, where he is the official historian for the Royal Nepal Army. He is the coauthor of Gurkhas at War. John Jordan, who specializes in French and Russian naval history, is a frequent editor of the Warship series and author of many books and articles. APRIL 160 pp., 40 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-040-5 Hardcover: $39.95 (USAC) MAY 256 pp., 16 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-422-9 Hardcover: $39.95 (USAC) APRIL 208 pp., 50 b/w photos, 50 line drawings, 7 ¾” x 10 ½” ISBN: 978-1-84486-062-3 Hardcover: $49.50 (USAC) HISTORY • MILITARY • GENERAL History • military By Richard Woodman A distinguished British maritime writer offers a compelling reassessment of the British and German planning that led to the first and one of the most famous naval battles of World War II. The dramatic sea fight between the German picket battleship Admiral Graf Spee and the British cruisers Exeter, Ajax, and Achilles off the coast of South America in December 1939 is seen as one of the classics of naval warfare. Using eyewitness accounts, Woodman graphically reconstructs the daylong battle and pursuit and draws penetrating portraits of the battle’s opposing commanders. HISTORY • World war ii 12 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S DESTROYER CAPTAIN Lessons of a First Command By Adm. James Stavridis, USN 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 the author’s 1993–95 tour. Drawing on daily journals he kept for the entire period, Stavridis 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. s MARCH 224 pp., 10 b/w photos, 5” x 8” ISBN: 978-1-59114-849-4 Hardcover: $22.95 history • MILITARY Also available from the Naval Institute Press • Watch Officer’s Guide, Fifteenth Edition ISBN: 978-1-59114-936-1 $24.95, Hardcover, 2007 by Adm. James Stavridis and Capt. Robert Girrier With all the joy, doubt, self-examination, hope, and fear of a first command, he offers an honest examination of his experience from the bridge to help readers grasp the true nature of command at sea. The window he provides into the personal lives of the crew illuminates not only their hard work in a ship that spent more than 70 percent of its time underway, but also the sacrifices of their families ashore. Stavridis credits his able crew for the many awards the Barry won while he was captain, including the Battenberg Cup for top ship in the Atlantic Fleet. Naval aficionados who like seagoing fiction will be attracted to the book, as will those fascinated by life at sea. Officers from all the services, especially surface warfare naval officers aspiring to command, will find these lessons of a first command by one of the Navy’s most respected admirals both entertaining and instructive. Adm. James Stavridis, USN, is a 1976 distinguished graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and a native of South Florida. As commander of U.S. Southern Command, he has responsibility for all U.S. military forces in Central and South America and the Caribbean Sea. His awards and decorations include the Defense Distinguished Service Medal, the Defense Superior Service Medal, and five awards of the Legion of Merit. He holds a PhD from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University and is the coauthor of Command at Sea, Watch Officer’s Guide, and Division Officer’s Guide. “With all the joy, doubt, self-examination, hope, and fear of a first command, Admiral Stavridis offers an honest examination of his experience from the bridge to help readers grasp the true nature of command at sea.” TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | 13 N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S SOUTH TO JAVA A Novel By William P.Mack and William P. Mack Jr. The crew of an old U.S. Navy destroyer steaming toward a deadly battle in the Java Sea is the focus of this famous novel set at the outbreak of World War II as the Allies attempted to defend the Philippines and Dutch East Indies against superior Japanese forces. Thrust into conflict against the highly trained modern navy, the American sailors often had only their own courage with which to meet the enemy, and Admiral Mack’s memorable description of those men as they faced overwhelming odds has assured the book’s popularity since it first appeared in hardcover in 1987. William P. Mack, the author of numerous books, served as a gunnery officer on board the destroyer USS John D. Ford in the Java campaign. He was vice admiral and commander of the Seventh Fleet and later served as superintendent of the U.S. Naval Academy. William P. Mack Jr. has coauthored a number of books with his father. MARCH 464 pp., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-476-2 Paperback: $21.95 FICTION • WAR & MILITARY SEAL TEAM ONE A Novel By Dick Couch With a new introduction by the author and a foreword by RADM Tom “Hulk” Richards, USN (Ret.), Navy SEAL This now classic tale of SEAL combat action in Vietnam marked Dick Couch’s debut as a novelist in 1990 and sold more than 100,000 copies. Hailed for its authenticity, it was the first novel about Navy SEALs to be written by one of their own. Couch, a SEAL platoon leader in the Mekong Delta from 1970 to 1971, includes gripping descriptions of dangerous operations that continue to attract a broad audience, with many bestselling authors calling his book a sensational story they can’t put down. This new paperback edition features a foreword by the former head of the Naval Special Warfare Command. Dick Couch was a Navy SEAL from 1968 to 1972, when he joined the CIA. He retired from the Naval Reserve in 1997 as a captain. He is the author of twelve books, both fiction and nonfiction, including Chosen Soldier, Mercenary Option, and Down Range. His new book, The Sheriff of Ramadi, is scheduled for publication by the Naval Institute Press in Fall 2008. MAY 288 pp., 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-134-1 Paperback: $19.95 FICTION • WAR & MILITARY 14 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S THROUGH THE WHEAT The U.S. Marines in World War I By Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.), & Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.) U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps’ great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way. The Marines entered World War I as a small force of seagoing light infantry that had rarely faced a well-armed enemy. On a single June day, in their initial assault “through the wheat” on Belleau Wood against German machine guns and poison gas shells, the Marines suffered more casualties than they had experienced in all their previous 142 years. Yet at Belleau Wood, Soissons, Blanc Mont, St. Mihiel, and the Meuse-Argonne the Marines proved themselves to be hardnosed diehards with an affinity for close combat. Nearly a century later Belleau Wood still resonates as a touchstone battle of the Corps. Two retired Marines, well known for their achievements both in uniform and with the pen, have recorded this rich history in a way that only insiders can. Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons and Col. Joseph H. Alexander recount events and colorful personalities in telling detail, capturing the spirit that earned the 4th Marine Brigade three awards of the French Croix de Guerre and launched the first pioneering detachments of “Flying Leathernecks.” Here, hand-tohand combat seen through the lenses of a gas mask is accompanied by thought-provoking assessments of the war’s impact on the Marine Corps. Brig. Gen. Edwin Howard Simmons, USMC (Ret.), served in the Marine Corps for thirty-six years, from 1942 to 1978, and is a decorated veteran of World War II, Korea, and Vietnam. He also served the Corps for seventeen years as a civilian, including many years as Director of Marine Corps History and Museums. He is the author of the Korean War novel Dog Company Six; The United States Marines: A History; and Frozen Choisin: U.S. Marines at the Changjin Reservoir, among other publications. He died in May 2007. Col. Joseph H. Alexander, USMC (Ret.), served in the Marine Corps for twenty-eight years and fought in Vietnam. He is the author of the award winning Utmost Savagery: The Three Days of Tarawa and four other books. He has helped produce twenty-five military documentaries for cable television and was chief historian on the exhibit design team for the National Museum of the Marine Corps. He lives in Asheville, NC. s june 256 pp., 20 b/w photos, 14 maps, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-791-6 Hardcover: $34.95 History • world war i “U.S. Marine participation in World War I is known as a defining moment in the Marine Corps’ great history. It is a story of exceptional heroism and significant operational achievements, along with lessons learned the hard way.” TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | 15 N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S CHIEF OF STAFF The Principal Officers Behind History’s Great Commanders Edited by Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, AUS (Ret.) Volume 1: Napoleonic Wars to World War I With a foreword by Dennis Showalter Volume 2: World War II to Korea and Vietnam With a foreword by Richard Holmes The two-volume Chief of Staff examines the history, development, and role of the military duty position of the chief of staff. Many books have studied history’s great commanders and the art of command. None have focused exclusively on the chief of staff—that key staff officer responsible for translating the ideas of the commander into practical plans that common soldiers can execute successfully on the battlefield. In some cases, it is almost impossible to think of certain great commanders without also thinking of their chief of staff. Napoleon’s chief of staff Berthier and Eisenhower’s chief of staff Bedell Smith are two examples that are profiled in this work. Zabecki and his collaborators examine the history, development, and role of the chief of staff primarily through profiles of the most important practitioners of the art. These books are published in cooperation with the Association of the United States Army. Maj. Gen. David T. Zabecki, AUS (Ret.), is editor of Vietnam magazine and author of several military history books, served as an infantry rifleman in Vietnam. After earning his commission, he was an operations officer, intelligence officer, and a chief of staff. In 2003 he was the senior security adviser on the U.S. Coordinating and Monitoring Mission in Israel, where he was responsible for the Roadmap to Peace negotiations between the Israeli Defense Force and the Palestinian Authority’s multiple security organizations. He lives in Germany. volume 1: Napoleonic wars to WWi MAY 288 pp., 18 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-990-3 Hardcover: $ 39.95 History • military volume 2: WWII to korea and vietnam MAY 256 pp., 18 b/w photos, 1 map, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-991-0 Hardcover: $37.95 History • military 16 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G N E W P U B L I C A T I O N S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S LAUGHTER IN THE SHADOWS A CIA Memoir By Stuart Methven This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its “finest hours.” Using the alias “St. Martin,” Stuart Methven served in the CIA from the 1950s through the 1970s. The book opens by describing the author’s training in the clandestine arts and subsequent assignment to Asia in a country he calls “Bushido.” There he is involved in numerous operations, including one that takes him under the ocean, and earns his case officer’s “brevet.” A nation-building program in “Cham” follows, which begins well enough when Methven gains a tribal leader’s confidence by parachuting badly needed supplies to his mountain village. It ends abruptly, however, with a coup d’etat and civil war that forces Methven’s evacuation, the first of several during his career. s june 208 pp., 15 b/w photos, 6” x 9” ISBN: 978-1-59114-517-2 Cloth: $24.95 BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY His next assignment is in South Vietnam working to counter another budding insurgency. Methven spends four years in the mountain and delta provinces of Vietnam before being given a sabbatical to MIT’s School of International Studies. After completing his studies, he returns to Southeast Asia as a deputy station chief with a focus on a large Soviet mission in Samudra and the recruitment of Soviet military officers. Promoted to station chief, his final assignment is in central Africa, where his station becomes center stage for a large covert operation that attracts Soviet and Cuban military intervention. Glimpses of the CIA from the inside are rare, and Methven’s recollections of his experiences during a formative period in the Agency’s history will be of particular value to those with an interest in the CIA and international affairs—and in spy stories. Stuart Methven, a graduate of Amherst with a master’s degree from MIT, was a career officer in the CIA from 1952 to 1978. Later he owned and edited a weekly newspaper in West Virginia, consulted for the Hudson Institute, and served as assistant to the president of the Center for Naval Analyses. He currently lives in Brussels, Belgium. “This memoir of a CIA operations officer captures the spirit of the early years of the Agency, a period sometimes described as its ‘finest hours.’” TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | 17 R E C E N T R E L E A S E S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S BANKRUPTING THE ENEMY THE RESCUE OF STREETCAR 304 By Edward S. Miller By Kenny Wayne Fields Miller contends that the United States forced Japan into international bankruptcy to deter its aggression. His lucid writing and thorough understanding of the complexities of international finance enable even readers unfamiliar with financial concepts and terminology to grasp his explanation of the impact of U.S. economic policies on Japan. 368 pp., 26 charts, 18 photos, 1 map. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-520-2. Hardcover: $32.00 In this exhilarating narrative, Fields recounts being shot down by AAA guns in 1968 and the 40-hour ordeal that followed, and what turned out to be one of the largest air rescues of the Vietnam War. He draws on Air Force radio logs, afteraction reports, and extensive interviews with all participants to tell the story from all perspectives. 384 pp., 32 photos, 2 maps. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-272-0. Hardcover: $29.95 THE NAVY CROSS NATO’S Gamble The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor A Navy Pilot’s Forty Hours on the Run in Laos Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Other Conflicts Combining Diplomacy and Airpower in the Kosovo Crisis, 1998–1999 By James E. Wise Jr. and Scott Baron By Dag Henriksen This collection of profiles in courage highlights the Sailors and Marines awarded the U.S. Navy’s highest honor for valor, the Navy Cross. It is the first book to focus on the stories of those recognized for their heroic actions while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan—twenty-one in all. 256 pp., 47 photos, 2 maps. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-945-3. Hardcover : $34.95 NATO’s Gamble examines the key political, diplomatic, and military processes that shaped NATO and U.S. management of the Kosovo crisis and shows how air power became the main instrument in their strategy to coerce FRY to accede to NATO’s demands. 304 pp., 32 photos, 4 maps. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-358-1. Paperback: $24.00 18 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G R E C E N T R E L E A S E S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S stars in blue Movie Actors in America’s Sea Services By James E. Wise Jr. and Annie Collier Rehill THE WAR MANAGERS By Douglas Kinnard Stars in Blue is filled with fascinating details about the real lives of more than fifty movie stars who served in the U.S. Navy and Coast Guard from World War I to Vietnam. 336 pp., 117 photos. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-944-6. Paperback: $19.95 Considered a classic for its enlightening analysis of what went wrong in Vietnam, this frank assessment of American involvement in the war comes straight from the U.S. Army generals responsible for its conduct in the field. This painful indictment of both the military and civilian policy makers serves as a useful guide on how to avoid similar disasters in today’s conflicts. 228 pp., 11 photos. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-437-3. Paperback: $19.95 churchill goes to war charge! By Brian Lavery Edited by Congressman Steve Israel One of Britain’s top naval historians takes on a previously unexplored area of Churchill’s wartime efforts in this much anticipated follow on to a successful study last year of Churchill’s navy. Entirely original in his approach, Lavery considers the practicalities of transporting a prime minister through dangerous skies and across hostile oceans in a time of global war. 368 pp., 40 illus. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-103-7. Hardcover: $34.95 Congressman Israel demonstrates how words have been sharp and powerful weapons of victory in this compilation of great military speeches that helped turn the tide of history. This dramatic sweep of military history in the words of history’s military leaders serves to reinforce the concept that the pen is mightier than the sword. 320 pp., 53 b/w photos and illustrations. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-399-4. Hardcover: $32.95 Winston’s Wartime Journeys History’s Greatest Military Speeches TO ORDER CALL 1-800-233-8764 | 19 R E C E N T R E L E A S E S F R O M T H E N AV A L I N S T I T U T E P R E S S taiwan’s statesman first to fight By Richard C. Kagan By Victor H. Krulak This examination of the success of Lee Teng-hui, the prodemocracy statesman and former president of the Republic of China, puts to rest the idea that Asian values support only authoritarian regimes and reject human rights and political democracy. Kagan calls Lee’s life a beacon for people looking for new ways to promote democracy and sovereignty. 240 pp., 17 photos. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-427-4. Hardcover: $30.00 Legendary Marine general “Brute” Krulak submits an unprecedented examination of U.S. Marines—their fights on the battlefield and off and their extraordinary esprit de corps. Deftly blending history with autobiography and separating fact from fable, Krulak touches the very essence of the Corps: what it means to be a Marine and the reason behind its consistently outstanding performance and reputation. 272 pp., 41 photos. 6” x 9”. ISBN 978-1-55750-464-7. Paperback: $18.95 military widows naval firepower By Joanne M. Steen and M. Regina Asaro By Norman Friedman and line drawings by A.D. Baker III This survival guide for widows of service personnel tackles the unique and complex issues arising from the death of a spouse in the military. It speaks to loss in each of the service branches, across the span of rank and rates. Short, easyto-read chapters provide insight on how to make difficult decisions and cope with everyday situations. 208 pp. 6” x 9”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-834-0. Paperback: $19.95 For more than half a century the big gun was the arbiter of naval power, but it was useless if it could not hit the target fast and hard enough to prevent the enemy doing the same. This book outlines in layman’s terms the complex subject of fire-control equipment and electro-mechanical computing. 256 pp., 240 photos and line drawings. 9 3/4” x 11 1/4”. ISBN: 978-1-59114-555-4. Hardcover: $69.95 Lee Teng-hui and Democracy in Asia A Survival Guide 20 | V I S I T W W W. U S N I . O R G An Inside View of the U.S. Marine Corps Battleship Guns and Gunnery in the Dreadnought Era