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Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, June 1943 - June 1944
The ninth volume in Admiral Morison’s history takes up the story of American naval activities in the Mediterranean where Volume II left off, and covers three major amphibious …
The Two-Ocean War
Originally published in 1963, this classic, single-volume history draws on Morison's definitive 15-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. More than a …
Leyte, June 1944 – January 1945
The determining factors in the Battle for Leyte Gulf were superb skill, heroism, and aggressiveness, but confusion, surprise, and faulty assumptions also played significant roles. …
The Struggle for Guadalcanal, August 1942 - February 1943
Quality paperback editions of Samuel Eliot Morison’s multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II are being published by the Naval Institute Press with …
Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Midanao, Visayas, 1944-1945
After the Battle of Leyte Gulf, which crushed Japanese naval power in the Pacific even more effectively than American naval chiefs were aware at the time, the U.S. moved against …
Victory in the Pacific, 1945
The details of these operations are described vividly, even passionately. Morison spares no information in describing the grim consequences of the kamikaze suicide crashes by enemy …
The Francis Parkman Reader
Francis Parkman (18231893), struggling against painful chronic illnesses and very largely self-taught in his field, was not only a pioneering historian but an enduring one. His …
The Great Explorers
This is an abridgement of Samuel Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, in which he describes the early voyages that led to the discovery of the New World. All …
The European Discovery of America
The late Samuel Eliot Morison, a former U.S. Navy admiral, was also one of America's premier historians. Combining a first-hand knowledge of the sea and transatlantic travel with …
Three Centuries of Harvard, 1636–1936
This one-volume history of Harvard is not so much a summary of Samuel Eliot Morison’s monumental work [The Tercentennial History of Harvard College and University, 1636–1936] as it …
New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944 - August 1944
The eighth volume of Admiral Morison’s History of United States Naval Operations in World War II covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, from March to August of …
The Atlantic Battle Won, May 1943– May 1945
Allied shipping was in a desperate situation in 1942, as the Germans were building U-boats faster than the British and the Americans could sink them. By the summer of 1943, …