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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]
Morison, Samuel Eliot (1947). Operations in North African Waters: October 1942 – June 1943. OL 2917797W. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1948). The Rising Sun in the Pacific: 1931 – April 1942. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1949). Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions: May 1942 – August 1942. Morison, Samuel Eliot (1949).
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 ...
Download as PDF; Printable version ... 2015 Samuel Eliot Morison Award ... Neptune: The Allied Invasion of Europe and the D-Day Landings is a book by Craig L. Symonds ...
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.