Books for Summer.•. WORLD WARSHIPS IN REVIEW, 1860-1906 By John Leather
This volume captures the technical and popular history of the steam warship 's most experimental era , from the first screw-driven ironclad to the Dreadnought . 134 hitherto unpublished ph.otographs are accompanied by comprehensive statistics for each vessel . The ships presented are from the navies of Britain , America , Germany , France , Italy , Austria , Russia , Japan , Norway , Den mark , and many others . 1977. 264 pages . 134 photos . List price: $12 .50 WARSHIPS OF THE IMPERIAL JAPANESE NAVY, 1869-1945 By Hansgeorg Jentschura , Dieter Jung, Peter Mickel.
A fully-illustrated encyclopedia that covers the development of the Imperial Japanese Navy , and details battleships and battlecruisers , cruisers , carriers , escort carriers , gunboats , torpedo boats , destroyer escorts , fast patrol boats , and many others . A major naval reference work. 1977 . 280 pages. Over 500 illustrations . List price : $24 .00 UNITED STATES NAVY AIRCRAFT SINCE 1911 By Gordon Swanborough and Peter M . Bowers
This fully-illustrated volume describes 125 of the most significant types of aircraft , and also briefly examines another 130 types of less important craft to Naval history . Contains important chap ters on the designation systems used by the U.S . Navy , the colors and markings used on Naval aircraft, and an index providing an immediate cross reference to every designated Naval aircraft . 1977. 518 pages . 500 photographs. Index. List price: $18 .50 1HE McCULL Y REPORT ON THE RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR , 1904-05 Edited by Richard von Doenhoff
Recently discovered in the National Archives , this once highly confidential report is a detailed account of the naval operations of the Russo-Japanese War. The author, LCDR Newton A . McCully, amplified his report of the military aspects of the war with detailed observations on Russian transportation, agriculture and social customs . 1977 . 344 pages . Illustrated. List price: $14 .95
SERVICE ETIQUETTE, 3rd Edition By Oretha D. Swartz
The guide to correct social usage on official and unofficial occasions for men and women in the Army , Navy , Marine Corps, Coast Guard , and Air Force . 1977 . 544 pages . Illustrated . Bibliography . Index. List price: $13.95 THE MEDLEY OF MAST AND SAIL: A CAMERA RECORD
Presented in the form of a photograph album with commentaries, this book portrays the extent and multiplicity of the great , but vanished , era of merchant sailing operations. The content is broadly based , depicting all manner of different types and craft , and covering a very wide variety of rigs , trades and ports, ranging through proas , junks , various fishermen and barges , coasters , small traders and big square-riggers . 1977 . 330 pages . 407 photographs . List price : $21 .95 WEATHER FOR THE MARINER, 2nd Edition By Rear Adm iral William J . Kotsch , USN (Ret.)
A completely updated ed ition of the book which presents in an un complicated and readab le manner the basic principles of modern meteorology and certain practi cal aspects of oceanography . 1977. 296 pages . Illustrated . Appendices . Index . List price : $13 .95 DICTIONARY OF NAVAL ABBREVIATIONS Compiled and edited by Bill Wedertz
More than 16,000 separate entries , this book contains official , unofficial , and slang abbreviations and acronyms are entered in alphabetical order according to the abbreviation . 1977 . 360 pages . List price : $9.95 All books available from the 1,.J.S . Naval Institute , Annapolis , Mlaryland 21402