Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, 1907, Vol. 14: A History of the Year 1906-1907 And the final event to himself has been that, As he rose like a rocket he fell like a stick. Thomas paine. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
"Until now there has never been a comprehensive ship's biography of the last survivor of America's new steel navy of the Spanish-American War era. The protected cruiser Olympia was constructed as part of a congressionally-mandated program to build a modern fleet prior to the turn of the century. Designed for the Asiatic Squadron, she became famous as Adm. George Dewey's flagship at the Battle of Manila Bay and later returned the body of the Unknown Soldier from France after World War I. Today the Olympia displays her traditional garb of buff and white as a naval shrine at Penn's Landing on the Delaware River in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
For the first time, the real story of the life of Robert A. Heinlein in the authorized biography Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) is generally considered the greatest American SF writer of the 20th century. A famous and bestselling author in later life, he started as a navy man and graduate of Annapolis who was forced to retire because of tuberculosis. A socialist politician in the 1930s, he became one of the sources of Libertarian politics in the USA in his later years. His most famous works include the Future History series (stories and novels collected in The Past Through Tomorrow and continued in later novels), Starship Troopers, Stranger in a Strange Land, and The Moon is a Harsh Mistress. Given his desire for privacy in the later decades of his life, he was both stranger and more interesting than one could ever have known. This is the first of two volumes of a major American biography. This volume is about Robert A. Heinlein's life up to the end of the 1940s and the mid-life crisis that changed him forever. At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, 1910, Vol. 17 In the meantime the rest of the class were entering and being quartered in Bancroft Hall, spending their days wrestling with the manual or the drag-ropes of a three-inch field piece, under the watchful eye of the savvy section of the first class, who, instead of going on their regular cruise, had been kept in Annapolis to graduate in September. This was nice for the first class, but it cut us out of our share of any real plebe summer, and we deeply felt the loss. It was while the second bunch was still incomplete that we had our first acquaintance is a class with sorrow. Kennedy Benham Kilduff, though he had hardly been a member of us for a week, had already won the liking and admiration of every man who came in contact with him and his death cast a gloom over every one. Two weeks later the Standish brought Kin jiro Matsukata, who had been making the cruise on the Severn, back to the hospital for treat ment. He was operated on immediately, but it was unavailing and the plucky little fellow passed away with a smile on his lips, a stranger in a strange land. These two sad events in so short a time served to Show us that we were a class and could feel and act as such, in spite of our extreme. Youth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, Vol. 24: The Annual of the Regiment of Midshipmen, United States Naval Academy, 1917 Pened. Duringthe past year; if it to remember bright spots in theii four-year course at the School of the Pampered Pets; if. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Includes over 90 maps, charts and illustrations. His nickname was “Terrible Turner.” He was, according to one ensign who served with him prior to World War II, “the meanest man I ever saw, and the most competent naval officer I ever served with.” He led the successful amphibious attacks on Guadalcanal, Makin, Kwajalein, Roi-Namur, Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. He was Admiral Richmond Kelly Turner, one of the key figures in America’s defeat of Japan. In this fascinating and comprehensive biography, Vice Admiral George C. Dyer documents the tough and fearless leadership of Admiral Turner, his astonishing success in meeting some of the toughest challenges in the history of amphibious warfare, and detailed descriptions of the ships and men who fought under him. More than just a biography, The Amphibians Came to Conquer is a carefully documented history, both strategic and tactical, of the major campaigns in the Pacific from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, providing a wealth of information on how Terrible Turner and the men he commanded conquered island after island against a tough and determined foe. In an astonishing tribute to the tenacity of Turner and his men, a February 21, 1945 Japanese broadcast said: “The true nature of an alligator is that once he bites into something, he will not let go. Turner’s nature is also like this.” This remarkable book belongs in the library of any serious student of the war in the Pacific
Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, Vol. 10: Class of 1903 IN presenting this volume to the battalion and its other friends, 1903 pays its farewell to its Alma Mater. The book is composed of the gleanings of three years of toil, and is, of course, intended primarily as a memento of our academic career, so you who are not members of the class do not be too hard on us if you cannot understand some of our jokes. Remember that they are intended for the class. We have tried to produce a book that will be of interest, not only to the battalion, but to any one who takes an interest in the Navy School. \ve earnestly hope that the articles on athletics will bring this subject before the graduates who have left the service, and that the article on the Naval Academy will impress upon them the fact that their Alma Mater, much as they abused her while here, still lives, and that she ought to live in their hearts forever. We thank our friends out side of the class for the help they have given us, and we thank the members of the class for furnishing us with several good jokes at their expense. We thank jang for his tooth; Leo, for his puns; Mike, Fwetzie, and the Dago, for their little peculiarities but principally we thank the officers of the Indiana' for the happy cruise we had on-her that gave us a chance to regain our lost faculties and reputations. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, 1912, Vol. 19 The of 1912 respeetfully hehieates this lucky flag, as a mark of their appreei'ation for the ennziberatiun that be has shown its eheep member. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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 of the man as well as recording the achievements of the admiral in this brilliant biography, which won the Alfred Thayer Mahan Award for Literary Achievement the year of its publication.
Excerpt from The Lucky Bag, 1914, Vol. 21 Fleet bolb all the 0665 ano enos founo aboaro by tbe master at Arms so 60 7] bolo all the 0665 ano enos tl)at bave maoe 1914 a class of which. 3 believe, tbe Service is justly prouo. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
