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Morison, Samuel Eliot
Born: 1887 AD
Died: 1976 AD, at 89 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Admiral, Biographers
Died: 1976 AD, at 89 years of age.
Nationality: Unknown
Categories: Admiral, Biographers
US biographer and historian
wrote biographies "Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christopher Columbus" 1942 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1943), "John Paul Jones" 1959 (Pulitzer Prize for biography 1960), 15-volume history "History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II" 1947-1962
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 12: Leyte, June 1944-January 1945 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Paperback - Jan 24, 2002) In volume 12 of his comprehensive history, Samuel Eliot Morison returns to the Pacific for a dramatic retelling of the greatest naval battle of all time.The determining factors in the Battle for...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 8: New Guinea and the Marianas, March 1944-August 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Paperback - Nov 16, 2001) This installment of Samuel Eliot Morison's insider history of the U.S. Navy covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war, March through July 1944. Awash with spectacular rescues of... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 7: Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls, June 1942-April 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Paperback - Nov 16, 2001) 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... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 11: The Invasion of France and Germany, 1944-1945 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 11) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Paperback - Jan 24, 2002) 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...  Usually ships in 24 hours |
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History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Vol. 9: Sicily-Salerno-Anzio, January 1943-June 1944 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Paperback - Nov 16, 2001) Volume 9 of Morison's comprehensive history covers the period of the opening of the second front in the Mediterranean, focusing on three major amphibious operations: the march from North Africa to... Usually ships in 24 hours |
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The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939-May 1943 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, 1) by Samuel Eliot Morison (Hardcover - Apr 25, 2001) This spectacular fifteen-volume series that charts the U.S. Naval operations during World War II with an insider's perspective. Morison, a Harvard professor, was given a special rank and writing...  |
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