Battleship New Jersey: An Illustrated History

by Paul Stillwell

Book Overview

Battleship New Jersey: An Illustrated History Hardcover by Paul Stillwell (Author) This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0870210297
• Release Date: March 1986
• Publisher: Naval Institute Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 2.97 lbs.
• Dimensions: 10.3" x 1.0" x 10.0"

Customer Reviews

The best Big J book

I own this book and am very pleased with it , I agree with other people that it was published much to early it needs more info , other wise a very very good book a must have.

Every Naval historian should have this book.

The only thing I could find "wrong" about Paul's book is that it was published before her last and premature (my opinion) inactivation. Well, there IS one more thing "wrong", I was still employed by the Navy at the time and was not allowed to furnish Paul technical history of the ship's 1981/82 reactivation and modernization period. Maybe, if Paul finds the time to revise the book one more time, we can get all that updated. Otherwise, the author brings you the life of a Battleship in a way no other person can do. Well, of course Paul Stillwell can. He SERVED aboard The Big J himself. And that's his style of historical record; the people who made up those ships as the designers, craftsmen and crewmen. I cannot imagine anyone serious about Naval history not wanting this book in their library. Therefore, even if your interest is in cruisers or destroyers or submarines or carriers, you MUST have THIS book because it is about the PEOPLE that made the United States Navy the greatest Naval Force in the history of the world. Richard Landgraff DREADNAUGHT CONSULTING Long Beach, California