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Œuvres de Max Miller
And bring all your folks;: Being a lighthearted examination of the southern California islands and some off Mexico, in… (1959) 5 exemplaires
Speak to the earth 2 exemplaires
The Cruise of the Cow 2 exemplaires
Reno 2 exemplaires
It Must Be The Climate 2 exemplaires
I'm Sure We've Met Before. With a "Now Hear This" by Captain Walter Karig, U.S.N. (1951) 2 exemplaires
The second house from the corner, 2 exemplaires
For the Sake of Shadows 2 exemplaires
The Great Trek: The Story of the Five Year Drive of a Reindeer Herd Through the Icy Wastes of Alaska and Northweste 1 exemplaire
C + ; a college commentary 1 exemplaire
shinny on your own side 1 exemplaire
He Went Away for a While 1 exemplaire
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The aircraft carrier is the dramatic new naval vessel of this war. Its development has revolutionized the techniques of naval strategy. Equipped with aircraft carriers, two huge task forces—one American and one Japanese—have twice fought major sea battles in this war without a ship on either side ever firing a gun.
Lt. Com. Max Miller of the United States Naval Reserve, in peacetime a writer of considerable repute, has here set down the whole feel of life at sea on one of the great American aircraft carriers on task-force duty. The carrier is any carrier. The battle is any battle. Here is the way the men of the carrier think and feel, from the moment of leaving port, through the long days of zigzagging into enemy waters, the mounting tension as the moment of battle draws near, the furious hours of attack, the losses and the triumph, the return homeward. Here, on duty and at play, are the pilots and gunners, the plane-handlers and the ammunition passers, the flight officers and the chaplains—all the hundreds and hundreds of young Americans who work and fight the carrier, key weapon in modern ocean warfare.
The picture is authentic. Lt. Com. Miller spent many weeks at sea gathering this material, soaking up these impressions. He served in the navy in the last war and subsequently spent many years as a newspaperman in San Diego, California, covering the waterfront of this great naval base.… (plus d'informations)