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The nonfiction book The Two Ocean War: A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War by U.S. naval historian Samuel Eliot Morison, is a revised and shortened version of his multi-volume History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. [1] [2] The one-volume book is 611 pages long. [2]
This History of U.S. Naval Operations also played an indirect role in the history of television. One of Morison's research assistants in the project, Henry Salomon, knew NBC's Robert Sarnoff and, in 1949, first proposed an ambitious documentary TV series on U.S. Navy and Marine Corps warfare in World War II.
Samuel Eliot Morison was born July 9, 1887, in Boston, Massachusetts, to John Holmes Morison (1856–1911) and Emily Marshall (Eliot) Morison (1857–1925). He was named for his maternal grandfather Samuel Eliot —a historian, educator, and public-minded citizen of Boston and Hartford, Connecticut .
"Thoughts on Naval Strategy, World War II". Naval War College Review 20 (March 1968): 3–10. 1970s "John Cabot, The Mysterious Sailor Whose Voyages Laid the Basis for English Claims to North America". Smithsonian 2 (April 1971): 12–20. "Publishers World Interviews Samuel Eliot Morison". Publishers World 206 (4 November 1974): 6–7. "Abigail ...
A Main Selection of the Book-of-the-Month Club and the Military Book Club, the book tells the story of the remarkable two-and-a-half-hour sea battle fought on October 25, 1944, in which Rear Admiral Clifton A. F. Sprague's task unit, known as "Taffy 3" (7th Fleet's Task Unit 77.4.3), of escort carriers and their "tin can" escorts rose to the impossible challenge of beating back an overwhelming ...
Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). "Nevada". History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (series). Champaign: University of Illinois Press. ISBN 978-0-252-07065-5. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1963). The Two-Ocean War; A Short History of the United States Navy in the Second World War ...
In writing his review of Twilight of the Gods, in the New York Times, Mark Perry compares Toll's three volume narrative of the Pacific War with official 15 volume history written by Samuel Eliot Morison for the Navy; "While Morison's resulting 15-volume “History of United States Naval Operations in World War II” is celebrated as classic and definitive, it is neither.
Leyte: June 1944 – Jan 1945, vol. 12 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II. Little, Brown and Company. ISBN 0-316-58317-0. Morison, Samuel Eliot (2001). The Liberation of the Philippines: Luzon, Mindanao, the Visayas 1944–1945, vol. 13 of History of United States Naval Operations in World War II (Reissue ed.). Castle ...