The 2007 U.S. Naval Academy Naval History Symposium Papers
(The first of four installments in a collaboration between the IJNH and the USNA History Department)

• Hans Christian Bjerg, “To Copenhagen a Fleet” The British Pre-emptive Seizure of the Danish-Norwegian Navy, 1807
• J. Andrew Byers, The Sailors of 1898: Identity, Motivations, and Experiences of Naval Enlisted Personnel at the Dawn of an Age of American Empire
• David Head, A Different Kind of Maritime Predation South American Privateering from Baltimore, 1816-1820
• Olaf U. Janzen, The Royal Navy and the Interdiction of Aboriginal Migration to Newfoundland, 1763-1766

• William T. Althoff. USS Los Angeles: The Navy’s Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology. Review by Andrew Lambert.
• Howard J. Fuller. Clad in Iron: The American Civil War and the Challenge of British Naval Power. Review by John T. Kuehn.
• Paul G. Gillespie. Weapons of Choice: The Development of Precision Guided Munitions. Review by Jonathan Reed Winkler.
• Rob Newell. From the Playing Field to Battlefield: Great Athletes Who Served in World War II. Review by Jeffery Cook
• D. Thaddeus Novak. Life and Death on the Greenland Patrol, 1942. Reviewed by Jessica Salter.
• James E. Wise, Jr. and Scott Baron. The Navy Cross: Extraordinary Heroism in Iraq, Afghanistan , and Other Conflicts. Review by Jeffery Cook.

• Iain Hamilton, The Difficulties of an Admiralty Reformer in the later Nineteenth Century: The case of E.N. Swainson

• Larry Berman. Perfect Spy: The Incredible Double Life of Pham Xuan An, Time Magazine Reporter & Vietnamese Communist Agent. Review by John D. Sherwood.
• Craig C. Felker. Testing American Sea Power: U.S. Navy Strategic Exercises, 1923-1940. Review by Andrew Lambert.
• Colin S. Gray. The Sheriff: America’s Defense of the New World Order. Review by John T. Broom.
• Eric Larrabee. Commander in Chief: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, His Lieutenants, and Their War. Review by Jeffery Cook.
• James Douglas O’Dell. The Water is Never Cold: The Origins of the U.S. Navy’s Combat Demolition Units, UDTs and SEALS. Review by John T. Broom.
• Norman Polmar. Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events. Review by Andrew Lambert.
• Norman Polmar. Aircraft Carriers: A History of Carrier Aviation and its Influence on World Events, Vol. II 1946-2006. Review by Andrew Lambert.
• Gordon Smith. Battle Atlas of the Falklands War 1982 by Land, Sea, and Air, Naval–History.Net, 2006. Review by Charles Steele.
• William H. Thiesen. Industrializing American Shipbuilding: The Transformation of Ship Design and Construction, 1820-1920. Review by Howard J. Fuller.
• Rif Winfield. British Warships in the Age of Sail, 1793-1817: Design, Construction, Careers, and Fates. Review by Charles E. Brodine, Jr.
• Herbert O. Yardley. The American Black Chamber. Review by Terrance Rucker.

• Malcolm Llewellyn-Jones, “Just like a Training Exercise” The Destruction of U-198 in the Indian Ocean 12 August 1944

• Nicholas Blake. Steering to Glory: A Day in the Life of a Ship of the Line. Review by Douglas McElvogue.
• Randolph Cock and N. A. M. Rodger.  A Guide to the Naval Records in the National Archives of the UK. Review by Professor John B. Hattendorf
• Robert J. Cressman. USS Ranger 1934-1946: The Navy’s First Flattop from Keel to Mast. Review by Andrew Lambert.
• Bob Drury and Tom Clavin. Halsey’s Typhoon. Review by Professor Charles Steele.
• Philip Kaplan. Battleship. Review by Steven J. Ramold.
• C. Northcote Parkinson. Portsmouth Point: The Navy in Fiction 1793-1815. and Samuel Walters, Lieutenant R.N.: Memoirs of a Naval Officer in Nelson’s Navy. Review by John T. Broom.
• Bradley Peniston. No Higher Honor: Saving the USS Samuel B. Roberts in the Persian Gulf. Review by Jessica Salter.
• Norman Polmar and K.J. Moore. Cold War Submarines: The Design and Construction of U.S. and Soviet Submarines. Review by Matt Trudgen, Ph.D. Candidate.
• John H. Schroeder. Commodore John Rodgers: Paragon of the Early American Navy. Review by Benjamin Rennison.
• Michael Stammers. Figureheads & Ship Carvings. Review by Amanda Hale, MA.
• Dan Summitt. Tales of a Cold War Submariner. Review by Regina T. Akers.

• W J R Gardner, Smart Mining without Smart Mines: Second World War British Operations in the Baltic

• Martin Bellamy, Christian IV and His Navy: A Political and Administrative History of the Danish Navy 1596-1648. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
• James E. Bruseth and Toni S. Turner. From a Watery Grave: The Discovery and Excavation of La Salle’s Shipwreck La Belle. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
• Donald L. Canney. Africa Squadron: The U.S. Navy and the Slave Trade, 1842-1861. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert.
• Gerald L. Duskin and Ralph Segman. If the Gods are Good: The Epic Sacrifice of the HMS Jervis Bay. Reviewed by Gregory V. Contaoi.
• Ronald B. Frankum, Jr. Operation Passage to Freedom: The United States Navy in Vietnam, 1954-1955. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Ira Dye. Uriah Levy: Reformer of the Antebellum Navy. Reviewed by Jeffrey J. Remling.
• Dennis L Noble. Rescued by the US Coast Guard: Great Acts of Heroism since 1878. Reviewed by Mark R Condeno.
• Jürgen Rohwer. Chronology of the War at Sea 1939–1945: The Naval History of World War Two. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow.
• Douglas V. Smith. Carrier Battles: Command Decision in Harm’s Way. Reviewed by James P. Levy
• Teddy Suhren and Fritz Brustat-Naval. Teddy Suhren, Ace of Aces: Memoirs of a U-Boat Rebel. Reviewed by Eric C. Rust.
• Harlan K. Ullman. Finishing Business: Ten Steps to Defeat Global Terror. Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller.
• Colin White and the 1805 Club. The Trafalgar Captains Their Lives and Memorial. Reviewed by Charles Steele.

• Daniel Owen Spence, Australian Naval Defence and the 1887 Colonial Conference: Context, Policy and Reaction
• Iliya Petrov Peev, 125 Years of Bulgarian Maritime Education: A Current View

• Fred Borch and Daniel Martinez. Kimmel, Short, and Pearl Harbor: The Final Report Revealed. Reviewed by G. Alan Knight.
• Joseph Callo. John Paul Jones; America’s First Sea Warrior. Reviewed by Roderick Gainer, M.A.
• Joshua E. London. Victory in Tripoli: How America’s War with the Barbary Pirates established the U.S. Navy and Built a Nation. Reviewed by Howard J. Fuller.
• James Lowry. Fiddlers and Whores: the Candid Memoirs of a Surgeon in Nelson’s Fleet. and A Naval Life: The Edited Diaries and Papers of Admiral John Locke Marx 1852-1939. Dual Reviewed by Andrew Lambert.
• John Prados and Ray W. Stubbe. Valley of Decision: The Siege of Khe Sanh. Reviewed by Dr. Nikolas Gardner.
• Christine Shaw. Italy and the European Powers The Impact of War, 1500-1530. Reviewed by Edward M. Furgol.

• Stephen Stein, The Greely Relief Expedition and the New Navy

• David Jones and Peter Nunan. U.S. Subs Down Under: Brisbane, 1942-1945. Reviewed by Bryan Hockensmith.
• Eric W. Osborne. The Battle of Heligoland Bight. Reviewed by Rear Admiral James Goldrick.
• Bruce M. Petty. Voices from the Pacific War: Bluejackets Remember. Reviewed by Robert J. Schneller.
• Clark G. Reynolds. On the Warpath: Admiral Jocko Clark and the Fast Carriers. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert.
• Barbara Brooks Tomblin. With Utmost Spirit: Allied Naval Operations in the Mediterranean, 1942-1945. Reviewed by Samuel Doss.
• Response from Mr. Petty, 13 January 2007.

• Andrew Lambert, Economic Power, Technological Advantage, and Imperial Strength: Britain as a Unique Global Power, 1860 – 1890
• Carlo Tromben, Contributions of U.S. Naval Educational Centers to the Development of the Chilean Navy in Relation to Naval Operations and Industry, 1945-1975
• Gary E. Weir, The American Sound Surveillance System: Using the Ocean to Hunt Soviet Submarines, 1950-1961

• Charles Fenn. At the Dragon’s Gate: with the OSS in the Far East. Reviewed by James Speraw
• Thomas C. Hone and Trent Hone. Battle Line: The United States Navy, 1919–1939. Reviewed by Jeffrey G. Barlow
• Andrew C. Jampoler. Sailors in the Holy Land: The 1848 American Expedition to the Dead Sea and the Search for Sodom and Gomorrah. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert
• William R. Meara. Contra Cross: Insurgency and Tyranny in Central America, 1979-1980. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Dennis Noble. Lighthouses & Keepers. Reviewed by Edward Hoden.
• Robert E. Sheridan. Iron from the Deep: The Discovery and Recovery of the U.S.S. Monitor. Reviewed by Jeffery A. Charlston.
• Thomas Wildenberg. All the Factors of Victory: Admiral Joseph Mason Reeves and the Origins of Carrier Warfare. Reviewed by Edgar F. Raines, Jr.

• David A. H. Wilson, Avian Anti-SubmarineWarfare Proposals in Britain, 1915-18: The Admiralty and Thomas Mills

Hamilton Cochran. Blockade Runners of the Confederacy. Reviewed by Roderick Gainer.

Peter Goodwin. The Ships of Trafalgar The British, French and Spanish Fleets October 1805. Reviewed by Edward M. Furgol.

Vincent P. O’Hara. The German Fleet at War: 1939-1945. Reviewed by Gregory V. Contaoi.

Norman Polmar. The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet: Eighteenth Edition. Reviewed by Andrew Lambert.

William T. Y’Blood. Hunter-Killer: U.S. Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic. Reviewed by Bryan Hockensmith.

• Carlos E. Cal and Juan A. Imperiale, El Poder Naval contra el Talebán y Al Queda Afganistán – 2001 (Naval Supremacy against the Taleban and al Queda, Afghanistan – 2001)
  Part One / Part Two / Part Three
  Photo Gallery 1  / Photo Gallery 2
• Howard J. Fuller, “A portentous spectacle”: The Monitor U.S.S. Miantonomoh Visits England
  Photo Gallery (Powerpoint)

• Walter J. Boyne. Today’s Best Military Writing: The Finest Articles on the Past, Present, and Future of the U.S. Military. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Martin Clemens. Alone on Guadalcanal: A Coastwatcher’s Story. Reviewed by Charles D. Melson.
• Robert J. Cressman, USS Ranger; The Navy’s First Flattop from Keel to Mast, 1934-46. Reviewed by John C. Reilly Jr.
• William Thomas Generous. Sweet Pea at War: A History of USS Portland (CA-33). Reviewed by Leo J. Daugherty III. 
• Richard Knott. Fire from the Sky: Seawolf Gunships in the Mekong Delta. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.
• Lex McAulay. MacArthur’s Eagles: The U.S. Air War Over New Guinea, 1943-1944. Reviewed by Bryan Hockensmith.
• Edgar F. Puryear. Jr. American Admiralship: The Moral Imperatives of Naval Command. and Bruce M. Petty. Voices from the Pacific War: Bluejackets Remember. Dual Review by Robert J. Schneller.
• Otto J. Lehrack. America’s Battalion: Marines in the First Gulf War. Reviewed By Leo J. Daugherty III.
• Gene A. Smith. A British Eyewitness at the Battle of New Orleans: The Memoir of Royal Navy Admiral Robert Aitchison, 1808-1827. Reviewed by Charles R. Smith.
• Peter Whitfield. Sir Francis Drake. Reviewed by Edward M. Furgol.
• William C Whittle Jr. The Voyage of the CSS. Reviewed by Roderick Gainer.
• Derrick Wright. To The Far Side of Hell: The Battle for Peleliu, 1944. Reviewed by David A. Manning.

• Gary E. Weir, Editorial: The Neglected Player?
• Robert Hill, Admiral Hyman G. Rickover USN and the UK Nuclear Submarine Propulsion Programme
• Michael J. Crawford, More than “Rum, Buggery, and the Lash”: Social History in American Naval Documents

• William F. Althoff. USS Los Angeles: The Navy’s Venerable Airship and Aviation Technology. Reviewed by John J. Abbatiello.
• Thomas J. Cutler. A Sailor’s History of the U.S. Navy. Reviewed by David F. Winkler.
• Albert Helfrick. Electronics in the Evolution of Flight. Reviewed by John J. Abbatiello.
• Richard A. Hoffman. The Fighting Flying Boat: A History of the Martin PBM Mariner. Reviewed by John J. Abbatiello.
• Michael Palmer. Command at Sea: Naval Command and Control since the Sixteenth Century. Reviewed by Andrew D. Lambert.
• J. Charles Schencking. Making Waves: Politics, Propaganda, and the Emergence of the Imperial Japanese Navy: 1868-1922. Reviewed by Terrance Rucker.
• James H. Wilbanks. Abandoning Vietnam: How America Left and South Vietnam Lost the War. Reviewed by John Darrell Sherwood.

WORKS IN PROGRESS

• Keith W. Bird, Bibliography: Admiral Erich Raeder
• Seth Powell, “Train for the Known, Educate for the Unknown:” The Navy’s Struggle for Clarity with Graduate Education in the Humanities, from Holloway to Rickover
• Boris G. Novyy, PBN-1 Catalinas in the Soviet Union!