When I was a kid, I used to devour C.B. Colby books. Easy to read, copiously illustrated, and dedicated to topics any boy would find fascinating (jets, missiles, helicopters, warships, "fighting gear"...), … more
In the last few months, I've read a handful of young-adult novels from the 1930s to the 1950s about midshipmen or cadets at the US Naval Academy, the US Merchant Marine Academy, and now, with this title, … more
Clearly, this book doesn't compare to Adm. Morison's magisterial "History of United States Naval Operations in World War Two." But then, how many things do? As you would expect from this publisher, "The … more
Joseph Henry Hughes published this book in 1966 as a sort of memorial to his son, Ensign Joseph Henry Hughes III, USCG, who died shortly after his graduation from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy in 1963. … more
This 1964 volume is part of the apparently once very popular, or at least quite prolific, "Let's Go" series, which also includes such titles as Lets Go to a Planetarium, Let's Go Logging, Let's Go to … more