Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: history, war, operations, world, naval, united, states, volume, germany, vol, invasion, france
Number of Pages: 424
Published: 2002-01-24
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0252070623
ISBN-13: 9780252070624

With this volume, Samuel Eliot Morison recounts the U.S. Navy’s role in the largest and most complicated military operation ever undertaken: the invasion of Normandy. Involving more than a million American soldiers, 124,000 sailors, and 427,000 aviators, Operation Neptune-Overlord encompassed five major landings on the Norman coast. The most famous of these--the Utah and Omaha beach landings--involved the Western Naval Task Force, while the Eastern Naval Task Force covered landings at Gold, Juno, and Sword beaches. Combining meticulous detail with a forceful account of the action,

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: july, breaking, barrier, bismarck, bismark, volume
Number of Pages: 463
Published: 1950-01-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0316583065
ISBN-13: 9780316583060

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: war, vol, victory, pacific, world, operations, united, states, naval, history
Number of Pages: 464
Published: 2002-02-05
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0252070658
ISBN-13: 9780252070655

This final narrative volume of Morison’s history recounts the infamous campaigns for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two of the most bitterly contested campaigns of the war. When the U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima, they expected to secure it within a few days. No one had anticipated Japan’s determination to defend the island to the last man. Morison describes the Japanese defense system of camouflaged rifle pits and fortified gunning positions that held the Allies at bay and the heavy and continuous cover of naval gunfire that prevented even greater losses. As it was, the securing of Iwo

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Keywords: christopher, columbus, life, sea, ocean, admiral
Number of Pages: 680
Published: 1991-10-12
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0316584789
ISBN-13: 9780316584784

Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 fold-outs.

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Morison Press
Keywords: christopher, columbus, life, sea, ocean, admiral
Number of Pages: 700
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $36.45
ISBN-10: 1406750271
ISBN-13: 9781406750270

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Keywords: harvard, centuries, three
Number of Pages: 520
Published: 1986-10-15
List price: $31.50
ISBN-10: 067488891X
ISBN-13: 9780674888913

Author: Samuel Eliot Morison
Publisher: University of Illinois Press
Keywords: gilberts, aleutians, marshalls, june, april, vol, war, states, united, naval, operations, world, history
Number of Pages: 448
Published: 2001-11-16
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0252070372
ISBN-13: 9780252070372

During the last months of 1943, when Allied forces of the South and Southwest Pacific were hammering at islands and airfields in the Bismarcks and Bougainville, Admiral Chester Nimitz organized two massive amphibious operations to capture the strategically vital Gilbert and Marshall Islands. Volume 7 of Samuel Eliot Morison’s splendid history describes this mighty sweep of the Pacific Fleet across Micronesia, as well as the warfare in the remote and frigid Aleutian Islands. The campaigns of 1943-44 marked a great advance in the art of war. Fast carrier strikes, new anti-aircraft and a