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1	Admiral of the ocean sea; a life of Christopher Columbus more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist The naval historian Eliot Morison sailed on Columbus' route to the New World before beginning to write about his life. The result of this expedition is this biography of Christopher Columbus. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $17.46! \| first editions \| SVS
2	The Two-Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist From the surprise attack on Pearl Harbor to the invasion of Europe and the final grudging surrender of the Japanese, Admiral Samuel Eliot Morison delivers a thrilling first-person chronicle of World War II battle at sea. This classic work of military history is culled from Morison's definitive fifteen-volume history of U.S. naval operations during ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $18.77! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
3	The European Discovery of America: The Northern Voyages, A.D. 500-1600 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $8.00! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
4	Invasion of France and Germany: 1944-1945 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist The narrative opens with an account of the momentous events and decisions which culminated in operations NEPTUNE-OVERLORD in Normandy and ANVIL-DRAGOON in the South of France. The book follows the epic story of the landings themselves and of the essential role of naval gunfire in winning the beachheads. see all copies from $7.73! new only from $7.84! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Aleutians, Gilberts and Marshalls: June 1942-April 1944 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume picks up operations in the Aleutians where they were broken off after the Battle of Midway and carries them through the capture of Attu and Kiska, including the Battle of Komandorskis. The two great amphibious operations covered in this volume are the recovery of the Gilbert Islands and the conquest of the Marshalls. see all copies from $6.25! new only from $7.84! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Builders of the Bay colony more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist 1930. Sketches of some of the individuals who came out of Old England to begin the New, written by Morison, Pulitzer Prize-winning Professor of History in Harvard. Contents: Promoters and Precursors: Richard Hakluyt, Captain John Smith, and Morton of Merrymount; Master John White, of Dorchester; John Winthrop, Esquire; Master Thomas Shepard; John ... see all copies from $2.87! new only from $15.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
7	The European discovery of America : the southern voyages A.D. 1492-1616 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist Emphasizes the discoveries and explorations of Columbus, Magellan and Drake during the period. see all copies from $2.98! new only from $44.00! \| signed copies \| first editions
8	History of United States Naval Operations in World War II more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This final narrative volume of Morison's history recounts the infamous campaigns for Iwo Jima and Okinawa, two of the most bitterly contested campaigns of the war. When the U.S. Marines landed on Iwo Jima, they expected to secure it within a few days. No one had anticipated Japan's determination to defend the island to the last man. Morison ... see all copies from $7.50! new only from $7.84! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
9	Victory in the Pacific: 1945 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist In this, the concluding narrative volume of the series, Morison describes the famous campaigns for the capture of Iwo Jima and Okinawa, in which he participated. The details of these operations are described vividly, even passionately, with nothing spared as to the grim consequences of the kamikaze suicide crashes by enemy planes on the radar ... see all copies from $6.67! new only from $35.00! \| first editions
10	New Guinea and the Marianas: March 1944-August 1944 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume covers five of the most eventful months in the Pacific war, from March to August of 1944, and describes the submarine patrols of this period, the fast carrier strikes of March and April, and the bold leaps of the Southwest Pacific Forces, under General MacArthur's command, to Holandia, Wakde, Biak, and Vogelkop. see all copies from $3.86! new only from $7.84! \| first editions \| SVS
11	The Battle of the Atlantic: September 1939-May 1943 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison, Dudley Wright Knox (Introduction by) add to wishlist This is the first volume chronologically, but the second in order of publication, of Captain Morison's "shooting history". This book deals with the defense of our own shores and ships, describing the gradual emergence of the Navy--between 1939 and 1943--from neutrality patrol and Western Hemisphere defense, through the "short-of-war" phases to ... see all copies from $9.95! new only from $33.67! \| first editions
12 view cover	Christopher Columbus more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.55! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Sicily-Salerno-Anzio: January 1943-June 1944 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume takes up the story of American naval activities in the Mediterranean, covering three major amphibious operations--the invasion of Sicily (HUSKY), the capture of the Salerno beachhead (AVALANCHE), and the long Anzio beachhead struggle (SHINGLE). see all copies from $5.76! new only from $7.84! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Sources and documents illustrating the American Revolution, 1764-1788, and the formation of the Federal Constitution more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $9.88! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Oxford History of the American People more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist see all copies from $1.99! new only from $43.53! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Breaking the Bismarcks Barrier: 22 July 1942-1 May 1944 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume in Captain Morison's great history of naval action during World War II is concerned with the continuation of Operation "Watchtower" up from Guadalcanal and New Guinea until Rabaul was taken the the Bismarcks Barrier broken. see all copies from $12.00! new only from $23.00!
17 view cover	Operations in North African Waters: October 1942-June 1943 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist One of America's most distinguished historians, Samuel Eliot Morison, was commissioned in the Naval Reserve early in 1942 with the sole duty of preparing the history of which this book is the second volume chronologically, but the first to be published. "Operations in North African Waters" covers the naval aspects of Operation "Torch", the North ... see all copies from $9.35! new only from $39.95! \| signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931 - April 1942 - Volume 3 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist History of the United States Naval Operations in World War II. see all copies from $8.00! new only from $43.13! \| SVS
19 view cover	The European Discovery of America: Vol 1: The Northern Voyages A.D. 500-1600 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist 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 a brilliantly readable narrative style, he produced what has become nothing less than the definitive account of the great age of European exploration. In his riveting and ... see all copies from $2.00! new only from $29.95! \| first editions
20 view cover	Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist This volume turns the corner from defeat to victory, beginning with the first of the great carrier actions of the war, the Battle of the Coral Sea. This is followed by a detailed account, the first to be written from Japanese as well as American sources, of the decisive Battle of Midway, and the Japanese thrust on the Aleutians, which ended with ... see all copies from $30.92!
21 view cover	The Oxford History of the American People: Volume 1: Prehistory to 1789 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist see all copies from $2.50! new only from $96.99!
22 view cover	The Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931-August 1942 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist The first and second volumes of this comprehensive history of the Navy's part in World War II covered operations in the Atlantic from September 1939 to June 1943. Volume Three is the first book on the war in the Pacific, that major testing ground which proved the ability of U.S. Naval forces to come back from disaster and eventually achieve far ... see all copies from $7.47! new only from $29.81!
23 view cover	Leyte: June 1944-January 1945 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist In this volume of his definitive history, Morison records the penultimate phase of the Pacific War, the Battle for Leyte Gulf--considered not only the greatest naval battle of all time, but one of the most controversial engagements in the American War in the Pacific. This account makes the full story available to the public for the first time. see all copies from $10.71! new only from $181.82! \| first editions
24 view cover	The Maritime History of Massachusetts, 1783-1860 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: R. B. Forbes, A Discursive Sketch on Yachting (1888), and Voyage of the Jamestown (1847). 17. Steam Navigation And Sailing Packet Lines (chap. xv). F. B. C. Bradlee, ... see all copies from $2.25! new only from $17.29! \| signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	The Atlantic Battle Won: May 1943-May 1945 more books like this by Samuel Eliot Morison add to wishlist Volume X is the second in Morison's history to deal with the Battle of the Atlantic. It concludes the account begun in Volume I of "that war of groping and drowning, of science and seamanship", the battle against the German U-Boats for control of the supply routes. see all copies from $2.15! new only from $12.00! \| first editions

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