Research Catalog

Title

The quiet warrior : a biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance / by Thomas B. Buell ; with an introduction and notes by John B. Lundstrom.

Author

Buell, Thomas B.

Publication

Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c1987.

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Description

xxxvi, 518 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Classics of naval literature

Uniform Title

Classics of naval literature.

Subject

• Spruance, Raymond Ames, 1886-1969
• United States. Navy > Biography
• Admirals > United States > Biography
• World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American
• World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Pacific Ocean

Genre/Form

Biographies

Note

• Reprint. Originally published: Boston : Little Brown, 1974.
• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. [478]-508.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Heritage -- The apprentice -- Marriage -- Peace -- Prelude to war -- Cruiser Division Commander -- War begins -- The Marshalls raid -- More raids -- Midway preliminaries -- The Battle of Midway -- Chief of Staff -- Planning for the Gilberts -- The Gilberts -- Planning for the Marshalls -- The Marshalls -- Marianas preliminaries -- Battle of the Philippine Sea -- The Marianas campaign -- Planning for Iwo Jima and Okinawa -- Iwo Jima -- Okinawa -- Victory and occupation -- President, Naval War College -- Ambassador to the Philippines -- The final years. Appendix I. Five stars -- Appendix II. Definition of an Admiral -- Appendix III. Decorations, awards, and honors.

ISBN

0870215620 :

LCCN

^^^87015177^

OCLC

• 16090079
• SCSB-12200007

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library