August 2012 | Navy Reserve Website

Launch the Intruders: A Naval Attack Squadron in the Vietnam War, 1972 (Modern War Studies) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book is obviously a serious labor of love. But it is also highly professional and thorough. You can tell that by the strength of the effort Reardon puts forth. And I know that dealing with a bunch of former naval aviators, to get their story, must have been a challenge of unusual proportion. Every...

PRESENTING THE PANTHER DIVISION - THE BLACK PANTHER 66TH DIVISION Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Personally disapointed because this "yearbook" did not contain pictures of the men of the three infantry regiments.Click Here to see more reviews about: PRESENTING THE PANTHER DIVISION - THE BLACK PANTHER 66TH DIVISIONClick here for more information about PRESENTING THE PANTHER DIVISION - THE BLACK PANTHER...

Going Overboard: The Misadventures of a Military Wife Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A ghastly book by the sadly misnamed Sarah Smiley. I have a weakness for domestic memoirs (Jean Kerr, Shirley Jackson, Erma Bombeck) and I am, myself, a military wife, so I was excited to find this book and fully expected to enjoy it.I hated it. A lot. With the exception of books about serial killers,...

The Right Thing Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I remember watching the news reports of the tragic collision between the USS Greeneville and the Japanese fishing vessel Ehime Maru two years ago. I felt great compassion for the victims and their families, but I also felt sorry for the Sub Commander who despite his own grief over the 9 deaths, and the...

The Real Team: Rogue Warrior Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I've read all of the Rogue Warrior books, plus the Marcinko book on leadership. I was hoping this book would be about non-fictional accounts of the missions in which these SpecOps warriors participated. However, there is very little here on missions except for oblique references, probably to classified...

Encyclopedia of the World's Warships: A Technical Directory of Major Fighting Ships from 1900 to the Present Day Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Published in 1985, this book gives a very good overview of Naval Ships from 1900 - 1985. It covers all types of ships from Germany, Britian, France, Italy, Japan, the US, Russia and others. Each class of ship is reviewed - Battleships, Crusiers, Destroyers, Subs, even PT Boats.With so much ground to...

Battlefield Angels: Saving Lives Under Enemy Fire From Valley Forge to Afghanistan (General Military) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A fascinating blend of courageous corpsmen & medic profiles from the Revolutionary War to the Middle East. I had no idea how much of civilian healthcare has been pioneered or validated by military medicine: anesthesia, blood banks, plasma transfusions, air medevacs, etc.But the strength of this book...

Pilots, Man Your Planes: The History of Naval Aviation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I was appalled when I read this book. It is shot through with inaccuracies, errors, "imagined" conversations, fabricated quotations, erroneous myths, and a lot of material that is just flat wrong. Many of the instances he relates are totally bizarre - where he got them is unknown, because the book is...

Fortress Rabaul: The Battle for the Southwest Pacific, January 1942-April 1943 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Second only to Truk in notoriety, the Japanese base at Rabaul, New Britain played a pivotal role in the fighting in the Southwest Pacific in World War II. It was a well-fortified stronghold in its own right bristling with hundreds of AAA guns, scores of fighters and bombers and possessing a fine harbor....

Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Excellent reference book for those who are interested in ships during the early period of developement in armored warships.Click Here to see more reviews about: Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1905Click here for more information about Conway's All the World's Fighting Ships, 1860-1...

Helicopters: An Illustrated History of Their Impact (Weapons and Warfare) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)New to the "Weapons and Warfare" series, Helicopters: An Illustrated History Of Their Impact is an in-depth study of how the helicopter has transformed warfare, from the first successful machines in the early 1900s to the latest technological advances of the twenty-first century. Written by an adjunct...

Aircraft Carriers at War: A Personal Retrospective of Korea, Vietnam, and the Soviet Confrontation Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Admiral Holloway's story begins with a destroyer torpedo attack on a battleship during the Battle of Suriago Strait in WW II. At the time Holloway was a lieutenant assigned as the gunnery and torpedo officer in the destroyer USS Bennion. There is a rule of thumb in the Navy that a destroyer making a...

To Foreign Shores : U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Good book about the little-known amphibious operations of WWII. Large book with a lot of detail.Click Here to see more reviews about: To Foreign Shores : U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War IIClick here for more information about To Foreign Shores : U.S. Amphibious Operations in World War...

UNDER SIEGE Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Under Siege is the fourth or fifth (depending on which way you put them in order) book that Stephen Coonts has written about his fictional hero Jake Grafton. It's a good read, both because it explores a scary scenario about what could happen if Columbian drug lords terrorized Washington DC in the same...

Perilous Fight: America's Intrepid War with Britain on the High Seas, 1812-1815 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have read quite a few books on the Naval war portion of the War of 1812. Usually, they will concentrate upon the thrilling single ship-to-ship battles of that war, mostly rousing and surprising-for-that-time American victories. This book does cover many of those battles and does so with style and panache,...

Forever Blue (Tall, Dark & Dangerous, Book 2) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Carter "Blue" McCoy is a member of an elite group of Navy SEALs. He travels home to Hatboro Creek to attend the wedding of his stepbrother to his childhood sweetheart. One of the first people he sees is Lucy Tait, police rookie and a girl he knew in high school. Lucy has had a crush on Blue for more...

Hellcat Tales: A U.S. Navy Fighter Pilot in World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It's real in that it talk's about training and that seem's to be a big part of any book about military flying. I would have like to read more about training and what signal's were used to communicate in the air as far as lining up for formation flying on a CAP. I believe novices would appreciate this...