September 2012 | Navy Reserve Website

Sea Warfare (Classics of Naval Literature) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Rudyard Kipling, author of the Jungle Books, also wrote this exciting account of two years at sea during World War I. "The main principles of sea-warfare," he begins, "hold good throughout all ages... For matters of detail the Navy, to whom all days are alike, has simply returned to the practice and...

Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World: Their Ships, Aircraft, and Systems (Naval Institute Guide to Combat Fleets of the World) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)As many people think, Jane's Fighting Ships is just too expensive. Eric Wertheim's combat fleets is far cheaper and the quality is getting very near of Jane's. This particular guide of 2007-2008 is in my oppinion an improvement over last one. I wish they published this guide every year, waiting 2 years...

The Passage (Dan Lenson Novels) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This book eventually rewards a patient reader, but it's quite an ordeal to get there.Poyer is using the device here of an unpleasant character who learns and grows through his experiences in the story. Dan Lenson, the hero, is shallow and unable to engage meaningfully with others. One of the themes of...

A Rage for Glory: The Life of Commodore Stephen Decatur, USN Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you're a fan of historical novels, and sometimes suspect that the heroes in those stories strain credulity, then this book will disabuse you of that fear. True, it isn't a long book--it may not weigh enough to make a sufficiently loud thud when landing on the desk of an academic (I agree with a previous...

Force Protection Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I'd dearly love to give this novel five stars. Four hundred of its 403 pages are a pure delight. Taut, gut-wrenching, can't put it down thriller. The last three pages, unfortunately, take a lot of the wind out of the sails. They don't ruin the experience: just kind of diminish it. Alan Craik finds himself...

One Hundred Days: The Memoirs of the Falklands Battle Group Commander Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This fine naval autobiography takes us behind the scenes of the Falklands sea/air (not ground) war and modern battle management in general. Admiral Woodward didn't exactly know what he was sailing into back in 1982, and makes no attempt to hide his personal sense of vulnerability as Britain's first fighting...

Private Life Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In "Private Life," Jane Smiley has presented readers with another beautifully crafted novel. The tone of the book is reminiscent of Sinclair Lewis' works; its texture and atmosphere are solidly middle-American. "Private Life" is the story of a marriage and the resulting disillusionment experienced when...

Jack Aubrey Commands: An Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O'Brian Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Brian Lavery is the author of the thoroughly excellent "Nelson's Navy", praised by Patrick O'Brian as the most nearly royal road to knowledge about the Royal Navy of the 1793-18115 period he knew. Lavery's new book, "Jack Aubrey's Commands: A Historical Companion to the Naval World of Patrick O'Brian",...

Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Dark Waters tells the story of the design, construction and early (late 1960s to late 1970s) operations of the U.S. Navy's smallest and most classified nuclear submarine, NR-1. Co-written by "plankowner" crewmember, Lee Vyborny, and a professional journalist, Dark Waters tells the inside story of the...

Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)"Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of K-129" by naval historian Norman Polmar and documentary film producer Michael White provides the first unclassified, factual accounting of a unique event in world history - the loss of a nuclear-missile-equipped submarine in 1968, and its subsequent clandestine...

Jane's War at Sea 1897-1997: 100 Years of Jane's Fighting Ships Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)A strong review of the late 19th transition from sail to steam, with lucid insights into the effect of both world politics and Alfred T. Mahan on the construction of modern navies. The book is chock full of the gorgeous drawings and photos we expect of Jane's.The chapters post WW2 are somewhat cursory...

Flying Boats and Seaplanes: A History from 1905 Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Originally published in France, this large format volume is the best of all the recently published pictorial seaplane historical surveys. Layout, typesetting and photo reproduction were absolutely outstanding in the original and have suffered only slightly in this version. The text is well organized...

The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Found out how the Seabees came to be through the wisdom of Mr. Knox and President Roosevlt by reading about The Golden Thirteen, someone saw the golden light when Christ and His disciples walked this earth and chose thirteen men to become a sybmol of things to come.Click Here to see more reviews about:...

Harvard's Education (Tall, Dark & Dangerous, Book 5) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is the fifth in Suzanne brockmann's S.E.A.L. series for Mira books. It is just as good as the first three. I thought the fourth EVERYDAY AVERAGE JONES was not as good.Harvard is the only black member of this SEAL team, and we have been waiting for his story.When FinCOM agents are training with SEAL...

Sweepers: A Novel of Suspense Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The novel begins with what appears to be a routine police investigation into what may or not be an accidental death. A beautiful woman is dead and her former boyfriend, a frocked Rear Admiral (lower half)assigned to the navy staff at the Pentagon may or may not be a suspect.The young admiral, who had...

Miniature Ship Models: A History and Collectors Guide Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)If you are a collector of scale ship models in either 1/1200 or 1/1250 scale (or both) buy this book. It will give you the historical background of the hobby and provide an increased appreciation for your collection.The book avoids the problem of many model related book- it has excellent, sharp photographs...

The Second Mate Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)For those who enjoy tales of the sea this is a must read. There is action and details of men, their ships and the sea. It's a short book but you can't wait to see what happens next. Tom Chatto has appeared previously in McCutchan's books and I can't wait to find moreClick Here to see more reviews about:...