Volume I: The Battle of the Atlantic, September 1939-May 1943 concerns Allied efforts to protect shipping, supply, and troop transport against Axis submarines and their supporting aircraft and ships.

Telling the story of the greatest sailor of them all, "Admiral of the Ocean Sea" is a vivid and definitive biography of Columbus that details all of his voyages that, for better or worse, changed the world. 50 drawings, maps & charts; 4 ...

This book covers five of the most eventful months of the Pacific war and describes the submarine patrols of this period, the fast carrier strikes, and the bold leaps of the Southwest Pacific forces.

Samuel Eliot Morison sat down to tell the whole story of Harvard informally and briefly, with the same genial humor and ability to see the human implications of past events that characterize his larger, multi-volume series on Harvard.

This abridgement of the late Samuel Eliot Morison's magnum opus, The European Discovery of America, which the Journal of Southern History called "an epic work of true grandeur," and the Virginia Quarterly Review considered "a great book by ...

This book has been written in the hope of bringing the exploits of the United States Navy in World War II to the attention of new readers.

Combining meticulous detail with a forceful account of the action, this volume describes the landings themselves as well as the "dirty work in the dark" that preceded them.