Название: A Short History of the United States NAVY
Автор:  Captain George R. Clark
Издательство: US Naval Academy
Страниц: 522
Формат: PDF
Размер: 39 мб
Качество: хорошее
Язык: английский
Год: 1911

This history owed its origin to the need of a work suit able in scope and treatment as a text-book for the midship men of the United States Naval Academy. Since, in a tentative form, it has been used by them with gratifying results, there is hope that it may prove of interest andvalue to others whose time for this subject is limited. It has been written with certain definite aims, the principal of which are the following: First, to present a record of exactly what happened, without personal, sectional, or national prejudice. Second, to regard naval events from the professional rather than the picturesque point of view;