View from the Quarterdeck: January 2015

• Michael J. Crawford, Taking the Moral High Ground: The United States, Privateering, and Immunity of Private Property at Sea
• Robert C. McCabe, The Development of Modern Counter-piracy Initiatives in Southeast Asia: Vietnamese Boat Refugees and Alternative Incidents 1979-1997
• Keith McLay, Swimming in the ‘Fishpond’ or Solidarity with the ‘Beresfordian Syndicate’: An Analysis of the Inquiry by the Subcommittee of Imperial Defence into Naval Policy, 1909

• John A. Wolter, David A. Ranzan, and John J. McDonough. With Commodore Perry to Japan: The Journal of William Speiden, Jr., 1852-1855. Review by John M. Jennings
• David J. Ulbrich. Preparing for Victory: Thomas Holcomb and the Making of the Modern Marine Corps, 1936-1943.
  Gregory J.W. Urwin. Victory in Defeat: The Wake Island Defenders in Captivity, 1941-1945. Review by John T. Kuehn.
• Timothy S. Wolters. Information at Sea: Shipboard Command and Control in the U.S. Navy, from Mobile Bay to Okinawa. Review by John T. Kuehn.
• Shiba Ryotaro. Clouds Above The Hill (“Saka No Ue No Kumo”). Review by Robert P. Largess.
• Philip Hichborn. Cruise of the Dashing Wave: Rounding Cape Horn in 1860. Review by Timothy G. Lynch.
• Peter V. Nash. The Development of Mobile Logistic Support in Anglo-American Naval Policy, 1900-1953. Review by Joseph Moretz.
• Phillip G. Pattee, At War in Distant Waters: British Colonial Defense in the Great War. Review by Joseph Moretz.
• Bruce A. Elleman and S.C.M. Paine. Commerce Raiding: Historical Case Studies, 1755-2009. Review by Jason W. Smith.