Authors at Sea: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service

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Seven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Bancroft Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience: service in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard during World War II. Best-selling novelists, historians, science writers, and journalists, most of these authors are well known - Herman Wouk, James Michener, Alex Haley, C. Vann Woodward, Russell Baker, Edward L. Beach, Carl Rowan, Ben Bradlee, Louis Auchincloss, and Samuel Eliot Morison, to ...
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Seven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Bancroft Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience: service in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard during World War II. Best-selling novelists, historians, science writers, and journalists, most of these authors are well known - Herman Wouk, James Michener, Alex Haley, C. Vann Woodward, Russell Baker, Edward L. Beach, Carl Rowan, Ben Bradlee, Louis Auchincloss, and Samuel Eliot Morison, to name a few. But readers may not be aware of their wartime naval service. The authors write about duty on all kinds of ships - from carriers to submarines to LSTs - and service in all theaters and at all periods of the war, from beginning to end. They recount a variety of experiences: submarine attacks, kamikaze hits, storms, homesickness, nights on the town, leadership challenges, personality conflicts. Most wrote after years of reflection and decades spent developing writing skills.
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  • ISBN-13: 9781557507990
  • Publisher: Naval Institute Press
  • Publication date: 11/28/1996
  • Pages: 336
  • Product dimensions: 6.35 (w) x 9.27 (h) x 1.16 (d)

Table of Contents

Introduction 1
from What Shall We Wear to This Party? The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit Twenty Years Before and After 15
from Growing Up 33
from The History of the Ginger Man 49
from Subchaser 61
from Crossing the Line: A Bluejacket's World War II Odyssey 69
"The Ship Ahead Just Disappeared" 85
from A Good Life: Newspapering and Other Adventures 97
from The United States Navy: 200 Years 115
"The Most Unforgettable Character I've Met" 121
from The World Is My Home: A Memoir 130
from "Our Hot War for Iceland" 143
"Training Flight" 155
from All the Ship's at Sea 165
from A Writer's Capital 180
from All at Sea: Coming of Age in World War II 189
from Breaking Barriers: A Memoir 197
from Vistas of History 209
from "Historian at War: Chronicling American Naval Operations in World War II" 218
from Thinking Back: The Perils of Writing History 229
from The Youngest Science: Notes of a Medicine-Watcher 233
"The Bread of Ochiltree: A Reminiscence of the War" 245
from Now Hear This: The Memoir of a Junior Naval Officer in the Great Pacific War 252
from The Inward Morning: A Philosophical Exploration in Journal Form 262
from Submarine! 270
from Little Ship, Big War 280
from A Letter Home 291
from To the War 301
from A Writer's Capital 313
Acknowledgments 317
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