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  title info:
    non sort: The
    title: compact history of the United States Navy
  name:
    name part: Pratt, Fletcher
    name part: 1897-1956
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Howe, Hartley Edward
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Priscilla, Louis
    name part: 1906-1956
    role:
      role term: illustrator.
  type of resource: text
  genre: History
  genre: Naval history
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 1967
    edition: New and revised edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 363 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "All the drama and excitement of a wide-ranging military adventure are packed into this famous one-volume history of the United States Navy. It is an all-time naval review, from the struggling young Navy of the American Revolution to the highly trained sailors of the war in Vietnam. Set against the backdrop of an emerging America, this story explores in depth the high-spirited young men who joined the Navy and saw the world; their officers and leaders, often brilliant, sometimes eccentric; and of course the ships, from the graceful schooner to the high-powered atomic sub. Originally written by military expert and historian Fletcher Pratt and adopted as a textbook by the U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, this new edition has been revised and updated by Commander Hartley E. Howe to include an entirely new section on the U.S. naval activities in the Korean conflict, the Navy's major technological advances -- in weapons and ships, in research in the air and on the bottom of the sea -- and naval participation in the Vietnamese war. Twenty-nine maps have been especially selected by Commander Howe: these charts enable the reader to follow various details of campaigns and strategies as he reads the accounts of them. As the presentation of an important institution in our American democracy and of the men and events that formed it, 'The Compact History of the United States Navy' is a fascinating and informative book for both the military and the civilian reader."--
  table of contents: The Revolution -- The second birth -- A sound of wings -- The Navy and the new world -- New beginning under pressure -- The long sleep ; the slow awakening -- The Navy of a world power -- The rising tide -- The days of defeat -- From Midway to Guadalcanal -- Submarines -- The Navy on the attack -- The Navy in Europe -- Submarines Atlantic ; submarines Pacific -- Transit from Formosa to Okinawa via Leyte -- Times of tension.
  note: by Fletcher Pratt ; revised by Hartley E. Howe ; illustrated by Louis Priscilla.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy
    topic: History
  subject:
    name:
      name part: United States.
      name part: Navy
  subject:
    geographic: United States
    topic: History, Naval
  subject:
    geographic: États-Unis
    topic: Histoire navale
  subject:
    geographic: United States
  classification: E182 .P84 1967
  classification: 359
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Compact history of the United States Navy
    name:
      name part: Pratt, Fletcher, 1897-1956.
    origin info:
      publisher: New York, Hawthorn Books [1967]
      edition: [3d] new and rev. ed.
    identifier: (OCoLC)988183155
  location:
    physical location: TAG TAGC
  record info:
    record content source: TEU
    record creation date: 740603
    record change date: 20240808230742.3
    record identifier: in00004819598
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng