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The Quiet Warrior : A Biography of Admiral Raymond A. Spruance (1974)

af Thomas B. Buell

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Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral personality did not make good copy for correspondents, and until the publication of The Quiet Warrior he remained an elusive figure. Thomas Buell has succeeded in evoking the nature of th… (mere)
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This is a fitting biography of the commander of the American side of the wildly co-incidental battle of Midway. It is a book heavily slanted to the service life of Spruance, but his navy life is his claim to fame. The maps are competent, and the text is clear. ( )
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An excellent book about one of the best admirals from WW2. He was an excellent planner, choose well and listened to his excellent staff. Honestly concerned about casualties, he was finally convinced about the need for invading Iwo Jima by a meeting with LeMay convinced him that it was necessary to save the crews of the B29s bombing Japan. Samuel Eliot Morison characterized his strengths as: "attention to detail, poise and the power of intelligent decisions." ( )
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Regarded as the standard biography of World War II naval hero Adm. Raymond A. Spruance, this work is now available in trade paperback for the first time. Spruance, victor of the battles of Midway and the Philippine Sea and commander of the Fifth Fleet in the invasions of the Gilberts, the Marshalls, the Marianas, and Okinawa, is one of the towering figures in American naval history. Yet his reserved, cerebral personality did not make good copy for correspondents, and until the publication of The Quiet Warrior he remained an elusive figure. Thomas Buell has succeeded in evoking the nature of th

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