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Date de naissance: 1917-03-26
Date de décès: 2002-08-22
Lieu de sépulture: Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Sexe: male
Nationalité: USA
Lieux de résidence: St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
Études: University of Michigan (BA)
Columbia University (PhD)
Professions: Naval service
professor
travel agent
Organisations: International Order of Military Historians
Courte biographie: Biography of Henry Hitch Adams

Henry Hitch Adams was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 26, 1917. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. degree in 1939, received his M.A. in 1940, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University. After service in the United States Navy during World War II aboard the destroyer escort U.S.S. Owen, Adams served as an instructor in English at Cornell University from 1945 to 1951, as Assistant, Associate, and full Professor at the United States Naval Academy from 1951 until the 1967-1968 academic year, and as Head of the Department of English at Illinois State University beginning in 1968. After retiring in the early 1970's, Adams returned to Annapolis to continue his writing, and subsequently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida and Oklahoma. Henry Hitch Adams died on August 22, 2002.

Professor Adams was author, co-author, or editor of a number of works about the sea. His publications include: 1942: The Year that Doomed the Axis (1967), Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age (1950), English Domestic or Homiletic Tragedy, 1575-1642 (1943), Harry Hopkins: A Biography (1977), Italy at War (1982), Seapower: A Naval History (1960), Techniques of Revision: Perfecting the Theme (1951), Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), Years of Deadly Peril (1969), Years of Expectation: Guadalcanal to Normandy (1973), and Years to Victory (1973).
Notice de désambigüisation: Please don't combine with Henry Adams (also known as Henry Brooks Adams)

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Sea Power: A Naval History, Second Edition par Estate of E. B. Potter

Read Chapters 11 through 22 as assigned reading during War at Sea in the Age of Steam elective in the fall/winter while at the NWC. Served as a textbook for half of the course. Many of the readings were repetitive when taking in at the same time as the assigned readings from "In Peace and War." As such, I did a lot of skimming. Despite that, this was a helpful tool during the course and I appreciated it more as a textbook to reference than a book that was enjoyable to sit down and read.

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SDWets | 2 autres critiques | Feb 19, 2024 |

Sea Power: A Naval History, Second Edition par E. B. Potter

A classic work covering over 2,000 years of naval history, from Greek and Roman galley warfare to Vietnam.

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MasseyLibrary | 2 autres critiques | Jul 5, 2020 |

Sea Power: A Naval History, Second Edition par E. B. Potter

This was the textbook for my first naval science class in college over 30 years ago. I found a copy of it at a thrift store for 98 cents, so naturally I had to buy it. It covers the history of naval warfare from earliest times (galley warfare) through the Cold War. As a student of military history, I devoured every page back then, and it is nostalgic going through it now . It contains lots of maps and diagrams of ship formations and has very informative overviews of nearly every major naval engagement in the 200 year time period from 1750-1980.… (plus d'informations)

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TBatalias | 2 autres critiques | Feb 22, 2020 |