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Very good. No dust jacket. Cover has slight wear and soiling. xii, 291, [1] p. 26 cm. Endpaper map. Illustrations, Maps. Chronology. Bibliographic Notes. Index. From Wikipedia: Karl Jack Bauer (born 30 July 1926 in Springfield, Ohio died 17 September 1987 in Troy, New York), was one of the founders of the North American Society for Oceanic History and a well-known naval historian. NASOH s K. Jack Bauer Award is named in his memory. The son of Charles August Bauer, an engineer, and Isabelle Fairbanks, Jack Bauer attended Harvard University, where he completed his bachelor of arts degree in 1948. He went on to graduate study at Indiana University, where he earned his M.A. in 1949 with a thesis on "United States naval shipbuilding programs, 1775-1860" and his Ph.D. degree in 1953 with a dissertation on "United States naval operations during the Mexican War." Jack Bauer worked at the National Archives as an archivist in 1954-55, then in 1955-57 was appointed an historian with the U.S. Marine Corps Historical Branch, where he worked on a volume of the U.S.M.C. history of World War II. In 1957, he transferred to the Naval History Division, where he worked with Samuel Eliot Morison s staff in preparing Morison s monumental History of U.S. Naval Operations in World War II. After four years as an assistant professor at Morris Harvey College from 1961 to 1965, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute appointed him an associate professor in 1965 and then professor of history in 1970, serving there for the reminder of his career. In 1977-78, he was visiting professor at the U.S. Army Command and General Staff College at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. The United States Navy appointed Bauer to the Secretary of the Navy's Advisory Committee on Naval History and he served as member of council of the American Military Institute, 1959 1962 and in 1980.
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Surfboats and Horse Marines is surely the single best book on the subject of Naval (and Marine) Operations during the Mexican War ever to be written. It is, in case you never thought much about it, a truly fastinationg subject. Nobody could take this subject and do more with it than K. Jack Bauer.
This was America's first foreign war. It was a very hotly debated war with many of those opposed willing to do jail time for their passive and sometimes not so passive resistance. This was also the first (and largest for many years to come) joint Army and Surfboats and Horse Marines is surely the single best book on the subject of Naval (and Marine) Operations during the Mexican War ever to be written. It is, in case you never thought much about it, a truly fascinating subject. Fortunatly for us, K. Jack Bauer steps in - as nobody else could take this subject matter and do so much good with it.
This was America's first foreign war. It was a very hotly debated war with many of those opposed to it willing to do jail time for their passive... and sometimes not so passive resistance. This was also the first (and largest for many years to come) joint Army and Navy operation complete with a massive first time amphibious landing requiring specially built boats. There were also extensive riverine operations and a principal role for the Navy (and Marines) on the West Coast. The warships of the age were in transition (a mixture of sail and steam...paddle wheels and propellers...iron and wood) and the personalities, men like Matthew Perry, David Connor, Robert Stockton, and Josiah Tattnall...these personalities were as interesting as the times in which they lived.
This is a book you always remember...always keep handy and always just plane love. It does not disappoint.
