![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() And finally, of course, the battles, thrillingly recounted from the Battle of New Orleans to the Battle of Midway to Grenada (which is more exciting than you thought). Alabama to the ships of today's Navy including yesterday's nuclear-powered Nimitz supercarriers and today's superfast, high-tech Arleigh Burke destroyers just rolling off their blocks in Maine's Bath Ironworks. Then there are the ships: from the U.S.S. He also uses little-known diaries and accounts to tell the stories of the individual, unknown sailors who made it all possible. Rickover, the "high priest" of the nuclear submariners and his stormy, controversial relationship with Lehman himself. On Seas of Glory: Heroic Men, Great Ships, and Epic Battles of the American Navy. A happy ending comes with the election of Reagan, an avalanche of money for the Navy, and the collapse of the Soviet Union. ![]() Lehman covers, among others, the Revolutionary War's John Paul Jones (of "I have not yet begun to fight" fame) David Glasgow "Damn the torpedoes" Farragut of the Civil War and the recently retired Hyman G. As the cold war begins, Lehman reveals his conservative credentials, fuming at restraints on naval action in Korea and Vietnam and the refusal to unleash our power in the face of Soviet subversion. Everyone and everything in these pages is larger than life. Navy meets a storyteller worthy of its noble history. John Lehman focuses on the important ships, interesting people, and decisive battles in American naval history from the Revolutionary War to the present day. From Ronald Reagan's Secretary of the Navy comes the incredible story of that service, beginning to end. ![]()
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