Overview

In On Seas of Glory, the U.S. Navy meets a storyteller worthy of its noble history. Former Secretary of the Navy John Lehman gives a sweeping narrative of the service's illustrious past, from the Revolutionary War to the present day, filled with the ships that dominated the seas, equally titanic personalities, and the battles that made history. Lehman profiles naval greats from John Paul Jones to William ""Bull"" Halsey, as well as the lesser-known sailors who have made the U.S. Navy the mightiest in the world, using diaries, memoirs, and letters to reveal naval combat as though firsthand. He also highlights the warships that have dominated the seas of their day and the battles in which they fought -- illustrated by detailed maps, woodcuts, paintings, and never-before-published photographs. With this chronicle of selfless sacrifice and awesome courage on the war-swept seas around the world, Lehman reminds us that the legends chronicled in these pages were real men and women, that the navy they fought for still sails, and that today their heroism is needed more than ever.

Full Product Details

Author:   John Lehman
Publisher:   Simon & Schuster
Imprint:   The Free Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.541kg
ISBN:  

9780684871776

ISBN 10:   0684871777
Pages:   448
Publication Date:   22 April 2003
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   No Longer Our Product
Availability:   Out of print, replaced by POD  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Introduction CHAPTER I THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR Nicholas Biddle; H.M.S. Jersey; John Barry; John Paul Jones; Valcour Island; Francois de Grasse; Virginia Capes CHAPTER II THE PRIVATEERS The Revolution; Congress; Fair American; George Lehman; Dr. Drowne; Stephen Girard; The War of 1812; General Armstrong and Andrew Jackson; The Civil War CHAPTER III WAR WITH THE BERBER PASHAS AND REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE Joshua Humphreys; Horatio Nelson; Subscription Ships; Essex; Stephen Decatur Jr. CHAPTER IV THE WAR OF 1812 Macedonian; Samuel Leech; Uriah Philips Levy; Joshua Barney; Charles Ball; Lake Erie; Lake Champlain and Thomas MacDonough CHAPTER V THE CIVIL WAR David Farragut; New Orleans; Mobile Bay; Commodore Class Gunboats; Joseph V. Kelly; William B. Cushing; Raphael Semmes and Confederate Raiders; Alabama CHAPTER VI MANIFEST DESTINY: THE ""NEW NAVY"" Alfred Thayer Mahan; Theodore Roosevelt; The Spanish-American War, Olympia and Manila Bay; Franklin Roosevelt; The First World War; War Plan Orange CHAPTER VII WORLD WAR II Pearl Harbor; The North Atlantic; Chester W. Nimitz; Ernest J. King; Midway; U.S.S. Yorktown; Guadalcanal; Alvin Kernan; Normandy; Andrew Jackson Higgins; Leyte Gulf; LCSs; John Lehman, Sr; U.S.S. William D. Porter; Okinawa; V-J Day CHAPTER VIII THE COLD WAR James V. Forrestal; Korea; Inchon; Hyman G. Rickover; Submariners; Grace Hopper; Vietnam; James Elliot Williams; Yankee Station CHAPTER IX THE 600-SHIP NAVY AND COLD WAR VICTORY James L. Holloway III; Nimitz Class; The Falklands War; John Lehman; Iowa Class Battleships; Beirut; Tripoli; Grenada; Tim Howard; The End of the Cold War Epilogue Bibliography Acknowledgements Index"

Reviews

George F. Will A masterful execution of an inspired idea -- rather like the Inchon landing and other operations ably examined in these pages. Henry A. Kissinger Fascinating, informative, and moving. John McLaughlin Extraordinary. Walter Cronkite A fascinating Book.

George F. WillA masterful execution of an inspired idea -- rather like the Inchon landing and other operations ably examined in these pages.

Walter Cronkite A fascinating Book. John McLaughlin Extraordinary. Henry A. Kissinger Fascinating, informative, and moving. George F. Will A masterful execution of an inspired idea -- rather like the Inchon landing and other operations ably examined in these pages.

Author Information

John Lehman, shown here while an aviator in the naval reserve, was appointed Secretary of the Navy by Ronald Reagan. He is the founding partner of J. F. Lehman & Company, and the chairman of the Princess Grace Foundation. He lives in Manhattan and Bucks County, Pennsylvania.

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