November 2012 | Navy Reserve Website

Becoming a Leader the Annapolis Way Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Excellent book. As a career Naval Officer, I have seen first hand how critical each of the leadership principles discussed in this book are. Throughout fleet, these are the skills, and values which distinguish the highly successful leaders from the mediocre. In a straightforward manner, the authors elucidate...

Japan's Imperial Army: Its Rise and Fall, 1853-1945 (Modern War Studies Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It has taken more than six decades after its fall, but at last we have a fine, well-written, well-informed English-language history of the army of imperial Japan. Given the central role that the Japanese Army played in the history of Japan and East Asia generally for half a century, it is remarkable...

Hunt and Kill: U-505 and the U-boat War in the Atlantic Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)There has been great interest in the Museum of Science and Industry's current restoration of U-505. With perfect timing, this newly released book will help fill a gap in people's knowledge of the U-boat war in general, and U-505's remarkable history in particular. Most people know U-505 was captured...

For Love of Country: Confronting Rape and Sexual Harassment in the U.S. Military Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)It is right for men and women to want to serve their country. It is right for men and women to volunteer to train and support the interests of their leaders.It is right for subordinates to respectfully obey their commanders.It is logical to assume that I need only fear the external enemy. Yet, in this...

An Affair of Honor (Honor Series) (The Honor Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)An excellent book in an excellent series. The purchase process, timely delivery, and condition of the book was also rather ironically an affair of honor. Very Pleased!Click Here to see more reviews about: An Affair of Honor (Honor Series) (The Honor Series)At the beginning of this fifth novel in Robert...

Silent Steel: The Mysterious Death of the Nuclear Attack Sub USS Scorpion Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)USS Scorpion's sinking remains a controversial topic more than 35 years later. But the focus has always been on the ship and not on the crew, all of whom perished aboard the submarine. Stephen Johnson deftly weaves the personal stories of crew members with that of the ship itself. Scorpion was a cranky,...

War Shots: Norm Hatch and the U.S. Marine Corps Combat Cameramen of World War II Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I have known of the great work of Norm Hatch for many years. He was the right man in the right place at the right time...and he still is. I worked most of my USMC career with writers/photographers and eventually for a "Mr" Norm Hatch (Major, USMCR, Retired) in DoD audio-visual news for about 18 months...

Blue Devil Island (Five Star Science Fiction and Fantasy Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)I love reading about the WWII era and fighter planes, I also love Sci-Fi, and this book delivers both in healthy doses.Mr. Rainey conveys his deep passion for fighter combat in a way that draws you into the lives of the pilots and makes you feel as if you are there with them on the island, and on patrol...

Fighter Aircraft (Combat Development in World War II) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)This is a great book for those interested in WW2 fighter development. Although not large or exhaustive in detail it contains many nuggets of information that are hard to find elsewhere. Highly recommended.Click Here to see more reviews about: Fighter Aircraft (Combat Development in World War II)Click...

Eight Survived: The Harrowing Story of the USS Flier and the Only Downed World War II Submariners to Survive and Evade Capture Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Eight survived is another title to make Admiral O'Kane's 'Clear the Bridge' soar. This one is barely readable and is barely a one star book. The author is not familiar with nautical terminology. The skipper of the sub is ordered to "anchor at a dock", is standing on the "floor" of the conning tower,...

Admiral William A. Moffett: Architect of Naval Aviation (Smithsonian History of Aviation and Spaceflight Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)William F. Trimble's Smithsonian History of Aviation Series biography "Admiral William A. Moffett: Architect of Naval Aviation" is an outstanding work about the father of American Naval Aviation.Trimble paints a clear picture of Moffett as a dynamic man of distinct vision, great patience, and remarkable...

H. M. S. Surprise (Vol. Book 3) (Aubrey/Maturin Novels) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In praising Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin books I am on well-trodden ground. In a sense, it is superfluous to do so: so many people, of such varied and excellent taste, have praised these books to the skies that further lauds from the modest likes of me are hardly necessary. Still, I'm glad to add...

The Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the Politics and Battles of the New Military Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)William J. Crowe, Jr. was a U.S. Navy submariner who rose to the rank of four-star admiral and served as Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, the highest position in the U.S. military. With coauthor David Chanoff, Crowe tells his story in the memoir "The Line of Fire: From Washington to the Gulf, the...

All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Airpower Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)Thomas Wildenberg has done an invaluable service to U.S. naval history, and to the memory of an astonishing admiral by reconstructing the life and contributions of Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves. Reeves story is one of those true stories that is in many ways stranger than fiction. Seemingly at every significant...

Guantánamo: A Working-Class History between Empire and Revolution (American Crossroads) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)History told from the bottom up almost always forces the reader to think about human injustice. This is certainly true of Jana Lipman's compellingly written, well researched study of those who built and worked at the Guantánamo naval base prior to the success of the Cuban Revolution in 1959. Lipman did...

Fatal North : Adventure and Survival Aboard USS Polaris, The First U.S. Expedition to the North Pole Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)In "Fatal North", Bruce Henderson's meticulous and thorough research takes an ill-fated polar expedition and makes it read like a who-dunnit. This is one of those books that takes the utmost of the reader's will power not to turn to the epilogue section at the end to see how it comes out. Henderson's...

A Different Kind of Honor (The Honor Series) Review

Average Reviews:(More customer reviews)The last half of the 19th century seemed to me to be a very weak period for a history of the US Navy. Leave out John Paul Jones, the Barbary pirates and the Confederate Navy advances and I thought the US Navy slumbered for most of the 19th century. HOWEVER, Macomber has managed very well to bring the...