Black Shoe Carrier Admiral: Frank Jack Fletcher at Coral Seas, Midway, and Guadalcanal Tapa dura - 2006

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. Second printing [stated]. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. Format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. xxii, [2], 658, [10] pages. List of Photographs. List of Maps. Abbreviations, Acronyms, and Special Terms. Task Organizations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. John B. Lundstrom, curator emeritus of History at the Milwaukee Public Museum has authored several books on the Pacific War, including Black Shoe Carrier Admiral and The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign. He is the recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award by the National Aviation Museum. Black Shoe Carrier Admiral, is not a biography of Admiral Fletcher. It could best be described as an operational history of Fletcher's command from December 1941 through September 1942. It is also a spirited defense of an admiral who has been much maligned by historians of the Second World War in the Pacific. An abundance of new evidence demanded… Leer más

Annapolis: Naval Institute Press, 2006. First Printing [Stated]. Hardcover. Fair [due to loss of flyleaf and extensive ink marks and notations]/Good. The format is approximately 7.25 inches by 10.25 inches. xxii, 558, [10] pages. Abbreviations, Acronyms and Special Terms. Photographs. Maps. Task Organizations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. DJ has some edgewear and soiling. Front flyleaf gone. Ink underling on DJ front flap and SUBSTANTIAL portions of the text. May be signed on the inside front cover. John B. Lundstrom is the author of several books on the Pacific War, including The First Team and The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign. He is the recipient of the Samuel Eliot Morison Award for Naval Literature, the Hook Contributor's Award and the Admiral Arthur W. Radford Award by the National Aviation Museum. Frank Jack Fletcher (April 29, 1885 - April 25, 1973) was an admiral in the United States Navy during World War II. Fletcher commanded five different task forces through the war; he was the… Leer más

Naval Inst Pr, 2006-06-01. Hardcover. New. New. In shrink wrap. Looks like an interesting title!