United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Overseas Review

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(More customer reviews)United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Overseas, and the companion United States Navy and Marine Corps Bases, Domestic, both edited by Paolo Coletta, are excellent references and often good reading. The team of contributors wrote essays of varying length on each of the installations cited. Sources follow each entry with primary sources shown separately from secondary sources. The result is a major work on a subject that deserves the attention.
It has been twenty years since publication of these books. Some of the bases shown as thriving centers of excellence are now closed. But the pre-1985 historical information is unaffected by the age of the books.
A big complaint, however, is the price.

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Histories of all important and historically significant overseas U.S. naval and Marine Corps bases and facilities are presented alphabetically in this work. Those bases within a geographic area that permits (or permitted) overflight rights, port visits, and the use of offshore anchorages and including Puerto Rico, the Virgin Islands, and Guam are included. Each entry discusses the form and function of the base or facility and gives something of its history and development. Bibliographies at the end of each entry provide sources for further research.