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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (3): 395–396.
Published: 01 July 1950
...Theodore Ropp Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942–August 1942 . By Morison Samuel Eliot . History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume IV . Boston : Little, Brown and Company , 1949 . Pp. xxiii , 307 . $6.00. . Copyright © 1950 by Duke...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 400–401.
Published: 01 July 1957
... their author s general conclusions. What role did sea power play in World War II? This volume is less dramatic than some of its predecessors. The submarine war was a war of attrition, a battle of statistics. Its climax came in the winter of 1942-1943, though the average tonnage sunk per Uboat was even...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1940) 39 (4): 438–447.
Published: 01 October 1940
.... This was the Confederate torpedo boat H. L. Hunley, probably the only submarine in the world at the time, and about to attempt what had been tried only twice before in all history but never yet accomplished the sinking of an enemy ship by under­ water warfare. Suddenly a huge hull loomed up directly across her bow...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (1): 118–119.
Published: 01 January 1946
.... $2.50. A submarine officer on leave once insisted to this reviewer that war correspondents were missing the boat over and over again by failing to report the undersea epics of the war. They came aboard, he complained, with notebooks crammed with technical questions only. How long can the submarine stay...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 401–402.
Published: 01 July 1957
... ducklings were the greatest emergency cargo carriers ever built. They had been thrown into the balance when the Germans were sinking Allied ships faster than they could possibly have been constructed by conventional methods. Allied mines and submarines sank many U-boats. Though the bombing of U-boat bases...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1957) 56 (3): 399–400.
Published: 01 July 1957
... in the invasion of France, Leyte, the liberation of the Philippines, and the liquidation of the Japanese Empire. Perhaps these final volumes may contain their author s general conclusions. What role did sea power play in World War II? This volume is less dramatic than some of its predecessors. The submarine war...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (1): 117–118.
Published: 01 January 1946
... chronological autobiography. William B. Hamilton. Silversides. By Robert Trumbull. New York: Henry Holt and Com­ pany, 1945. Pp. xii, 217. $2.50. A submarine officer on leave once insisted to this reviewer that war correspondents were missing the boat over and over again by failing to report the undersea epics...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1918) 17 (1): 81–84.
Published: 01 January 1918
... published by the Houghton Mifflin Company is The Journal of Submarine Commander von Forstner. This de­ tailed account of the way the submarine works was written for German readers and has been translated by Mrs. Russell Codman. John Hays Hammond, Jr., who has been devoting his great inventive ability...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1946) 45 (1): 119–120.
Published: 01 January 1946
... tried to close his memory against the day his destroyer had depthcharged a Jap submarine to death, he turned to prayer. The first words that came to mind were: Tis better to give than to receive. The episode which gets the blue ribbon is the widely published story of the appendectomy performed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1936) 35 (3): 329–336.
Published: 01 July 1936
... of uncertainty. Amid this tension the German gov­ ernment renewed its submarine warfare. 4 4 The quotations are from Beard. Can the United States Maintain Neutrality? 333 This seemed at the time to be the immediate cause for the American declaration of war. But one cause of this cause was the blockade of Germany...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1915) 14 (4): 358–370.
Published: 01 October 1915
... of stirring the feelings of those who suffer in consequence and of arousing greater hostility against their perpetrators. At first glance the submarine, the previously untried ma­ chine for fighting at sea, would seem to have more nearly justified the anticipations of enthusiasts as an instrument of offense...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1917) 16 (4): 289–302.
Published: 01 October 1917
... conduct of her submarine warfare, and it is just here that the principle of military necessity as applied by the General Staff reached its climax. For the sea is the high­ way of all nations, and the abrogation of the laws of sea war­ fare strikes directly at the liberties of all nations alike. What­ ever...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1960) 59 (3): 404–408.
Published: 01 July 1960
... the tunnels with water and launching Captain Nemo s submarine; but when our mothers saw what the results had done to our clothing, they were displeased, and notified us of their feelings. That brought on a discussion between me and my friend. Why was it, we asked, that adults never dug tunnels behind...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1966) 65 (4): 544–545.
Published: 01 October 1966
... of the maneuvers of his subordinates, the President sought earnestly to realize his objective by maintaining a policy of strict neutrality to­ ward the Allies and, at the same time, searching for compromises that would safeguard American interests without denying Germany use of the submarine. The erroneous...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1948) 47 (3): 400–401.
Published: 01 July 1948
... Navy s fight against the submarine and the early organization of the Atlantic convoys is a much-needed corrective to our stories of British ineptitude and unpreparedness, while he is sharply and properly critical of our own attack on the same problems. Those who object to the price will find...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1920) 19 (1): 81–96.
Published: 01 January 1920
... from the Spanish by Charlotte Brewster Jordan. New York: E. P. Dutton & Co., 1919. Mare Nostrum (Our Sea) forms a companion novel to The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. As the latter showed the Allies and Germany struggling on land, this work shows the submarine warfare and the German spy system...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (2001) 100 (1): 61–82.
Published: 01 January 2001
... by a phrase in one of Edward Brathwaite’s works The unity is submarine Tseng 2002.1.21 14:32 66 Ian Baucom that scene repeats itself not only in the first section of the later Poetics of Relation (repeats itself, indeed...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1950) 49 (3): 393–395.
Published: 01 July 1950
... Curtiss. Coral Sea, Midway, and Submarine Actions, May 1942-August 1942. By Samuel Eliot Morison. History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume IV. Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1949. Pp. xxiii, 307. $6.00. This fine volume is the best yet published in a very fine series. Cap­...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1954) 53 (1): 136–138.
Published: 01 January 1954
... carriers. The other two had been sunk by the submarines Albacore and Cayalla at the start of the June 19 battle. One reason for Admiral Spruance s failure was a much-debated decision the night before the Japanese struck. Spruance thought that the advancing Japanese might be in several detachments...
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South Atlantic Quarterly (1948) 47 (3): 401–403.
Published: 01 July 1948
...-Russian recrim­ ination since the war, is a model of judicious treatment. His story of the Royal Navy s fight against the submarine and the early organization of the Atlantic convoys is a much-needed corrective to our stories of British ineptitude and unpreparedness, while he is sharply and properly...