In this Book
- America's Sailors in the Great War: Seas, Skies, and Submarines
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: University of Missouri Press
- Series: American Military Experience
Honorable Mention, 2016 Lyman Awards, presented by the North American Society for Oceanic History
This book is a thrillingly-written story of naval planes, boats, and submarines during World War I.
When the U.S. entered World War I in April 1917, America’s sailors were immediately forced to engage in the utterly new realm of anti-submarine warfare waged on, below and above the seas by a variety of small ships and the new technology of airpower. The U.S. Navy substantially contributed to the safe trans-Atlantic passage of a two million man Army that decisively turned the tide of battle on the Western Front even as its battleship division helped the Royal Navy dominate the North Sea. Thoroughly professionalized, the Navy of 1917–18 laid the foundations for victory at sea twenty-five years later.
Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- pp. ix-x
- Acknowledgments
- pp. xi-xii
- Introduction
- pp. 3-6
- Chapter One. State of Play
- pp. 7-40
- Chapter Two. Beat to Quarters
- pp. 41-76
- Chapter Three. Aloft
- pp. 77-94
- Chapter Five. Sending the Hunters
- pp. 141-168
- Chapter Six. Battleship Boys
- pp. 169-176
- Chapter Seven. Keeping the Seas
- pp. 177-198
- Chapter Eight. Chasers
- pp. 199-214
- Chapter Ten. A Navy Second to None
- pp. 271-278
- Bibliography
- pp. 301-312
Additional Information
Copyright
2017