Samuel eliot morrison books to read
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Samuel Eliot Morison
American historian, Navy officer (1887–1976)
Samuel Eliot Morison (July 9, 1887 – May 15, 1976) was an American historian noted for his works of maritime history and American history that were both authoritative and popular. He received his Ph.D. from Harvard University in 1912, and taught history at the university for 40 years. He won Pulitzer Prizes for Admiral of the Ocean Sea (1942), a biography of Christopher Columbus, and John Paul Jones: A Sailor's Biography (1959). In 1942, he was commissioned to write a history of United States naval operations in World War II, which was published in 15 volumes between 1947 and 1962. Morison wrote the popular Oxford History of the American People (1965), and co-authored the classic textbook The Growth of the American Republic (1930) with Henry Steele Commager.
Over the course of his career, Morison received eleven honorary doctoral degrees, and garnered numerous literary prizes, military honors, and nati
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Rare OSS, SECRET HISTORY AMERICA'S FIRST CENTRAL INTELLIGENCE AGENCY by SMITH [Paperback] Samuel Eliot Morrison;
Right off the bat, I'm disappointed in this book. I thought it would be a compedium of OSS daring behind the lines, missions shrouded in secrecy, gadgets and real- world heroics. Instead, I felt this was a jumbled commentary that read like a phone book. " First these people tried to work and then these people got offended and then it got confusing and the original people left because they offended someone so they had to work to gain intelligence, but then the politics changed sides and we were back to square one".
Presented as a series of chapters on, basically, the OSSs areas of operation- Western Europe/Germany, the Balkans, India, Burma, Thailand, and China, while bouncing around the globe, I don't really get a sense of the people behind the OSS. Donovan is mentioned only when he has to come in and sort things out, or when he
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Hard Cover. Condition: Near Fine (see desciption). Bertram Greense (drawings), Maps By Erwin Raisz (illustrator). First Edition. ----------( 1st Printing of the First Easton Edition for both ) ---TWO VOLUMES - hardcovers, leather bound with gilt decoration and lettering, silk moire endpapers, ribbon marker. raised bands on the spine, all edges gilt (some very small marks on some of the gilt edges), visually these are Fine example but in both books there is a former owner's bookplate on the verso of the front board and the same former owner's embossed stamp has been pressed onto one page, no dustjackets as issued, lv + 448 / 445 pages., b&w illustrations, maps some of which fold out, any image directly beside this listing is the actual book and NOT a generic photo ///NOT SIGNED ---GUARANTEED to be AVAILABLE/// ---size is approximate (generally within 1/8 inch)--- PLEASE NOTE: The slight gap on the fore edge of one book is from a four-fold map (and thus a bit bulky) and i