![]() Detailed battle maps illustrate actions great and small woodcuts, paintings, and never-before-published photographs make war on the water still more vivid.Īmid the smoke and fire, Lehman also makes an argument. "Macedonian," New Orleans, Manila Bay, Pearl Harbor, Inchon, and many more. "Gurriere," Stephen Decatur's "United States" vs. The sweeping narrative also highlights the warships that have dominated the seas of their day, and the battles in which they fought: "Constitution" vs. A powder boy during the War of 1812 recalls running to fetch cartridges through torrents of blood the letters of the author's own father show what it was like to survive kamikaze attacks off Okinawa at the close of World War II and the bravery of naval pilot Tim Howard during Grenada proves the spirit of John Paul Jones is not dead. "On Seas of Glory" uses the diaries, memoirs, and letters of average sailors to reveal naval combat as though firsthand. Lehman profiles naval greats - from John Paul Jones and David Glasgow Farragut to Commodore George Dewey and FDR - but also gives credit to the lesser-known sailors who have made the U.S. ![]() ![]() Lehman here gives a sweeping narrative of the Navy, from the Revolutionary War to the present day, filled with the ships that dominated, equally titanic personalities, and the battles that made history. ![]() John Lehman was Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy, and the man most responsible for rejuvenating the service during the 1980s. Navy meets a storyteller worthy of its epic. ![]()
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