Who Can Hold The Sea

A close-up, action-filled narrative about the crucial role the U.S. Navy played in the early years of the Cold War, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide “A lucid, fast-moving and fitting finale to [Hornfischer’s] career.”—The Wall Street Journal This landmark account of the U.S. Navy in the Cold War, Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure on—and under—the high seas. In 1945, at the end of World War II, the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions most of its warships. But this peaceful interlude is short-lived, as Stalin, America’s former ally, makes aggressive moves in Europe and the Far East. Winston Churchill crystallizes the growing Communist threat by declaring the existence of “the Iron Curtain,” and the Truman Doctrine is set up to contain Communism by establishing U.S. military bases throughout the world. Set against this background of increasing Cold War hostility, Who Can Hold the Sea paints the dramatic rise of the Navy’s crucial postwar role in a series of exciting episodes that include the controversial tests of the A-bombs that were dropped on warships at Bikini Island; the invention of sonar and the developing science of undersea warfare; the Navy’s leading part in key battles of the Korean War; the dramatic sinking of the submarine USS Cochino in the Norwegian Sea; the invention of the nuclear submarine and the dangerous, first-ever cruise of the USS Nautilus under the North Pole; and the growth of the modern Navy with technological breakthroughs such as massive aircraft carriers, and cruisers fitted with surface-to-air missiles. As in all of Hornfischer’s works, the events unfold in riveting detail. The story of the Cold War at sea is ultimately the story of America’s victorious contest to protect the free world.

Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book. Sample Book Insights: #1 Admiral William F. Halsey, Jr. , was the leading public face of the Navy, and he was quick to command a crowd. His peers during the war were disinclined to speak of their work, and thus secretive. #2 The United States Navy ended World War II with nearly 1,200 combatant ships, 41,000 planes, and 3. 4 million personnel. It had 758,000 civilians on its worldwide payroll, more than half of them at the government-owned naval shipyards at Bremerton, Boston, Charleston, Mare Island, New York, Norfolk, Pearl Harbor, Philadelphia, Portsmouth, San Francisco, and San Pedro. #3 The push to cut costs fell upon the Pentagon like a weather front. The Senate was considering a bill to unify the Navy and War departments, along with a new department designating the Air Force as a single administrative entity. #4 The Navy was able to save the country 25 percent of the $265 billion it had cost to fight the war. The Navy’s budget writers considered this a lurid fantasy. The senator who had been impressed by Army presentations said to a Navy official, Atomic energy has driven ships off the surface of the sea. I don’t see how a ship can resist the atomic bomb.

The tale of the U.S. Naval force's Cold War is no clean conflict story, or even a mission account. Chronicling the exciting bends in the road of the wild early long stretches of the Cold War adrift.

During the Pacific leg of World War II, the U.S. Navy struck an astounding blow to the Japanese-a defeat which would become one of the greatest David and Goliath stories in the history of warfare. Japan's Shinano was a mammoth 72,000-ton aircraft carrier, equipped with a huge arsenal of guns, and carrying some 4,000 men. Yet, a small U.S. submarine, the Archer-Fish, less than a thirtieth the size of Shinano and carrying just 82 men, managed to sink the gargantuan vessel into the embattled Pacific with just four strategically placed torpedoes. Here, vividly told by the Commander of the Archer-Fish, is the incredible true story of this crushing victory-and a fascinating account of heroism, history, and warfare.

An enthralling collection of sea battles, selected and retold by a leading naval historian.

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