Ebook: The Quiet Warrior : a Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance
- Tags: Spruance Raymond Ames -- 1886-1969., United States. -- Navy -- Biography., Admirals -- United States -- Biography., World War 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Ocean., HISTORY -- Europe -- Western., United States. -- Navy., Admirals., Military campaigns., Pacific Ocean., United States.
- Series: Classics of Naval Literature
- Year: 2013
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- City: New York, United States., Pacific Ocean
- Language: English
- epub
Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral Read more...
Abstract: Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral personality did not make good copy for correspondents, and until the publication of The Quiet Warrior he remained an elusive figure. Thomas Buell has succeeded in evoking the nature