April 2012 | Navy Reserve Website

The Long Road to Annapolis: The Founding of the Naval Academy and the Emerging American Republic Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Along with the pages of other stuff I and other plebes entering the Naval Academy had to memorize years ago were the words of John Paul Jones: "It is by no means enough that an officer of the Navy should be a capable mariner. He must be that, of course, but also a great deal more. He should be as well...

It Wasn't Just a Job; It Was an Adventure: SAILOR STORIES from U.S. Navy Sailors of WWII, Vietnam, Persian Gulf and Peacetime Deployments Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I bought this book thinking that perhaps a person who had also served as an enlisted man and as an officer, in the same U.S. Navy that I did, would have some interesting experiences to share that would recall some good and perhaps even the bad times we all experience in 20 or more years service to our...

And Able (ex-mercenary series, 3rd) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ms. Monroe is a GREAT writer of brain fluff -- fun, fast read, good charactersClick Here to see more reviews about: And Able (ex-mercenary series, 3rd)Click here for more information about And Able (ex-mercenary series, 3...

The Naval War of 1812, Or, the History of the United States Navy During the Last War with Great Britain: To Which Is Appended an Account of the Battle (Classics of Naval Literature) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In a time when patriotism is passe, reading this book can redden the stuff in any American's veins. Our Navy's often-victorious battles against a superb and numerically superior foe ranks with the Athenian victory at Marathon in the annals of honor. Roosevelt was a natural storyteller and a first-rate...

Only 317 Survived : USS Indianapolis (CA-35) Navy's Worst Tragedy at Sea. . . 880 Men Died Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As a Survivors Son and owner of all the Indianapolis Books that I know of may I recommend this book to any one with an interest in the lives and deaths of these brave men. This book is unique among the others because it consists entirely of the accounts of the survivors. Many eyes saw and experienced...

Ship's Doctor Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Being on a aircraft carrier in the Medical Department myself, this book brought up some great memories. If you wanted to know about the true story about the life on an US Navy carrier, this is a very enjoyable book to read.Click Here to see more reviews about: Ship's DoctorUnique story of the trials...

Royal Navy Trawlers 1 Admiralty Trawlers (Pt.1) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"In the early days of the 20th century, the simple contact mine was becoming the cheap weapon of choice for many navies. Countering this threat eventually fell to the humbler trawler -- the similarity between trawling for fish and trawling for mines having quickly been realized.By 1916 however, the Admieralty...

Lady in the Navy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Sadly, most military women today seem unaware of either their history, or just how hard it was for their predecessors to not only to be taken seriously, but to serve at all during peacetimes. Joy Bright Hancock was arguably one of the most important figures in accomplishing those goals, and her book...

The Sea War in Korea (Navies and men) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a long and great disection of all the US naval operations during the Korean War. It covers everything from the intial view of the Korean Pennuisla after WW2, the underrated mission of the anti-mine units, the Close air support during the Chosin Campagin, the Inchon Landings, and the Naval Jets...

Under Enemy Colors Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)S. Thomas Russell debuts with `Under Enemy Colors' an age of sail novel set in 1793. Lieutenant Charles Hayden finds himself summoned by the First Secretary of the Navy Philip Stephens who offers him a position aboard the Themis as first lieutenant - with an added duty to file secret reports with Stephens....

Robert Potter, Founder of the Texas Navy Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Ernest Fischer did an excellent job of blending information about the personal and political life of a largely overlooked Texas patriot. Fischer has managed to keep the book both intersting and factual from the standpoints of Potter's womanizing personal life and his firebrand political life in early...

Chief Petty Officer's Guide (Blue and Gold) (Blue and Gold) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is OK, it has a lot of useful info however more than half of the book is on uniforms. Since the Navy is revamping all the uniforms I fear that this book will become obsolete. I think that the uniform section was wasted and should have been used for something more about......maybe....LEADERSHIP!...

The French Navy and the Seven Years' War (France Overseas: Studies in Empire and D) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love mysteries, whodunits, and I was gripped by this book in the same way but by the "how" rather than the "who." How did the apparently doomed French Navy survive the Seven Years' War to be a force in the American Revolution, and how did the author combine the monumental mass of information into such...

Blue Water Sailor: The Memoirs of a Destroyer Officer Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Commander Sheppard's work moves as fast as an actionnovel in his fine memoir as a mustang on his firstship as an officer. Sheppard's skills and training are tested constantly by turf struggles and jealousies, but his innate abilities and determination win the hard-earned respect of fellow officers and...

Night Watch (Tall, Dark & Dangerous, Book 11) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Girls, if you're the saving type - you know, stray kittens, kicked puppies, men with low self-esteem so afraid of their emotions that they choose not to feel them - then Wes Skelly is the hero for you! He's so emotionally closed down that he only allows himself to feel much of anything when he's drunk...

Destroyer Captain: Lessons of a First Command Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I enjoyed the book immensely- as a young officer on USS DEYO (DD 989) during a Mediterranean deployment, I sailed into many of those ports just a few years later in 1998. It was my first introduction to the Navy and to the World for that matter... I too remember thinking many times after those late night...

John Paul Jones of the U.S. Navy (Makers of America) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The famous battle between the Bonhomme Richard and the Serapis was only a part of John Paul Jones's dramatic career at sea. He is well known for his statement, "I have not yet begun to fight!"Click Here to see more reviews about: John Paul Jones of the U.S. Navy (Makers of America)Click here for more...