History of Communications Electronics in the United States Navy
Author: Linwood S. Howeth
Publisher:
Published: 1963
Total Pages: 692
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To Train The Fleet For War
Author: Albert A. Nofi
Publisher: Government Printing Office
Published: 2010-09-15
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781884733697
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"In this book, which is based especially on the Naval War College archives, Dr. Nofi, an American military historian, examines in detail each of the U.S. Navy's twenty-one 'fleet problems', at-sea exercises conducted between World Wars I and II, elucidating the patterns that emerged, finding a range of enduring lessons, and suggesting their applicability for future naval warfare."--Publisher's description.
Basic Electronics
Author: United States. Bureau of Naval Personnel
Publisher:
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 584
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAdmirals of the New Steel Navy
Author: James C Bradford
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2013-01-15
Total Pages: 381
ISBN-13: 1612512593
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis collection of interpretive, biographical essays on the admirals of the new steel navy continues the story of the development of the American naval begun so successfully in Command Under Sail and Captains of the Old Steam Navy. During the period of 1880 to 1930, the U.S. Navy underwent a significant transformation as it adapted to new technologies and grew to meet the responsibilities thrust upon it by America’s new role as a world power. This book offers readers an entertaining yet informative history that allows amateur and professionals alike to better appreciate the U.S. Navy’s dramatic period of development and adjustment.
The Pearl Harbor Secret
Author: Sewall Menzel
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Published: 2020-05-04
Total Pages: 430
ISBN-13: 1440875863
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides a penetrating look into Franklin D. Roosevelt's strategy to bait Adolf Hitler into declaring war on America in order to defeat Germany militarily, thus preventing the Nazis from developing the atomic bomb. In late 1939, President Roosevelt learned that Hitler was attempting to develop an atomic bomb to use against the United States. The president responded by directing his own scientific community to develop an atomic bomb and began making plans to go to war with Germany. However, he was hampered by public opinion, with 80 percent of the American people against U.S. involvement in another ground war in Europe. Roosevelt seized an opportunity in 1940, when Japan and Nazi Germany formed a military alliance. To bait Germany into war, FDR shut down Japan's war-making economy, prompting Tokyo to attack Pearl Harbor. A few days later, Hitler declared war on America. Using declassified documents, this book shows how Pearl Harbor was not about Japan; it was about the United States going to war with Germany. It reveals how the U.S. Navy's intelligence gathering system could break virtually any Japanese naval code, but Admiral Husband E. Kimmel, the commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet, was kept in the dark about the impending Pearl Harbor attack by his own government.
Mr. Roosevelt's Navy
Author: Patrick Abbazia
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 2016-09-15
Total Pages: 537
ISBN-13: 1682471837
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe U.S. Navy was at war in the Atlantic long before 7 December 1941, but little is known about that conflict. Mr. Roosevelt's Navy is a vivid, thoroughly researched account of this undeclared war upon which Mr. Roosevelt embarked in order to sway the desperate Battle of the Atlantic in favor of Britain's hard pressed Royal Navy.
Nexus
Author: Jonathan Reed Winkler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2008-06-30
Total Pages: 366
ISBN-13: 9780674028395
DOWNLOAD EBOOKIn an illuminating study that blends diplomatic, military, technology, and business history, Winkler shows how U.S. officials during World War I discovered the enormous value of global communications. Winkler sheds light on the early stages of the global infrastructure that helped launch the U.S. as the predominant power of the century.
Tube of Plenty
Author: Erik Barnouw
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 1990-05-31
Total Pages: 626
ISBN-13: 0199879176
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBased on the classic History of Broadcasting in the United States, Tube of Plenty represents the fruit of several decades' labor. When Erik Barnouw--premier chronicler of American broadcasting and a participant in the industry for fifty years--first undertook the project of recording its history, many viewed it as a light-weight literary task concerned mainly with "entertainment" trivia. Indeed, trivia such as that found in quiz programs do appear in the book, but Barnouw views them as part of a complex social tapestry that increasingly defines our era. To understand our century, we must fully comprehend the evolution of television and its newest extraordinary offshoots. With this fact in mind, Barnouw's new edition of Tube of Plenty explores the development and impact of the latest dramatic phases of the communications revolution. Since the first publication of this invaluable history of television and how it has shaped, and been shaped by, American culture and society, many significant changes have occurred. Assessing the importance of these developments in a new chapter, Barnouw specifically covers the decline of the three major networks, the expansion of cable and satellite television and film channels such as HBO (Home Box Office), the success of channels catering to special audiences such as ESPN (Entertainment and Sports Programming Network) and MTV (Music Television), and the arrival of VCRs in America's living rooms. He also includes an appendix entitled "questions for a new millennium," which will challenge readers not only to examine the shape of television today, but also to envision its future.
