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Title:

Authors at sea : modern American writers remember their naval service / edited by Robert Shenk.

Publisher:

Naval Institute Press,

Copyright Date:

c1997

Description:

xii, 318 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Subject:

Sea stories, American.
United States--History, Naval--20th century--Literary collections.
Naval art and science--Literary collections.
Authors, American--20th century--Biography.
American literature--20th century.
United States.--Navy--Biography.
War stories, American.

Other Authors:

Shenk, Robert, 1943-

Contents:

from What shall we wear to this party? The man in the gray flannel suit twenty years before and after / Sloan Wilson -- from Growing up / Russell Baker -- from The history of the ginger man / J.P. Dunleavy -- from Subchaser / Edward P. Stafford -- from Crossing the line: a bluejacket's World War II odyssey / Alvin Kernan -- "The ship ahead just disappeared" / Walter Sullivan -- from A good life: newspapering and other adventures / Ben Bradlee -- from The United States Navy: 200 years / Edward L. Beach -- "The most unforgettable character I've met" / Alex Haley -- from The world is my home: a memoir / James A. Michener -- from "Our hot war for Iceland" / Daniel V. Gallery -- "Training flight" / Gordon Forbes -- from All the ship's at sea / William Lederer -- from A writer's capital / Louis Auchincloss -- from All at sea: coming of age in World War II / Louis R. Harlan -- from Breaking barriers: a memoir / Carl Rowan -- from Vistas of history / Samuel Eliot Morison -- from "Historian at war: chronicling American naval operations in World War II" / Henry Salomon Jr. -- from Thinking back: the perils of writing history / C. Vann Woodward -- from The youngest science: notes of a medicine-watcher / Lewis Thomas -- "The bread of Ochiltree: A reminiscence of the war" / Herman Wouk -- from Now hear this: the memoir of a junior naval officer in the great Pacific war / Douglas Leach -- from The Inward morning: A philosophical exploration in journal form / Henry G. Bugbee Jr. -- from Submarine! / Edward L. Beach -- from Little ship, big war / Edward P. Strafford -- from A letter home / Kenneth Dodson -- from To the war / Robert Edson Lee -- from A writer's capital / Louis Auchincloss.

ISBN:

9781557507990 (alk. paper)
1557507996 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

96030519

Locations:

UTAX115 -- Buena Vista University Library (Storm Lake)