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Warships International Fleet Review (UK), November 2007 Comprehensive and well-written - almost cinematic in some places, it is recommended for anyone interested in naval combat leadership or the U.S. Navy in general ... a superb, enthralling account of the U.S. Navy's WWII titans and their achievements. US Naval Institute Proceedings, June 2007 In America's Fighting Admirals, a Navy veteran of World War II provides valuable reference points for the study of high-level naval leadership. Booklist, May 2007 World War II navy veteran and Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Tuohy has credentials and credibility to write a good popular introduction to the WWII U.S. Navy. And he has, in the form of a group portrait of the admirals who oversaw America's navy as it became the largest in history, larger than the contemporary combined fleets of the rest of the world ... An honorable tribute to honorable men, most of whom served their country well.

Warships International Fleet Review (UK), November 2007 Comprehensive and well-written - almost cinematic in some places, it is recommended for anyone interested in naval combat leadership or the U.S. Navy in general ... a superb, enthralling account of the U.S. Navy's WWII titans and their achievements.

Warships International Fleet Review (UK), November 2007 <br> Comprehensive and well-written - almost cinematic in some places, it is recommended for anyone interested in naval combat leadership or the U.S. Navy in general ... a superb, enthralling account of the U.S. Navy's WWII titans and their achievements. <br>

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William Tuohy served with the U.S. Navy in the Pacific in 194546. He won the Pulitzer Prize in 1968 for his Vietnam War reporting in the Los Angeles Times. As a journalist, Tuohy covered the conflicts in the Middle East, Central America, Northern Ireland, and the Gulf, as well as covering the fall of Saigon in 1975 and the Berlin Wall in 1989. He is the author of Dangerous Company: Inside the Worlds Hottest Trouble Spots with a Pulitzer Prizewinning War Correspondent and The Bravest Man: Richard O'Kane and the Amazing Submarine Adventures of the USS Tang. Mr. Tuohy lives near Los Angeles.

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