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New publications 2002
 

Aircraft Carriers, Inside and Out (Technology--Blueprints of the Future) by Mark Beyer. Powerkids Pr; ISBN: 0823961117
	This is a Blueprints of the Future series.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 254 pages  (August 2002)

 
 

Carrier Aviation Air Power Directory: The World's Carriers and Their Aircraft 1950-Present by David Donald, Daniel March. Airtime Pub; ISBN: 1880588439
	This truly unique and fully up-to-date reference work covers every aircraft carrier that is in service, or has served during the past 50 years. Arranged country by country, this new book features a detailed history of each nation's carrier development, procurements and combat action, and includes: Entries for every aircraft type, its variants, missions, specifications, weapons, and operators; Entries on every fixed-wing carrying vessel, specifications, key dates, and air wing details; Details of chains of command, orders of battle for current assets and ‘snapshots' of historic orders of battle; Descriptions of carrier operations, including deck systems and launch and recovery procedures. Beautifully illustrated with hundreds of color and black and white photos.  Click here to view details
(Hardcover - 200 pages . July 2002)

 
 

Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought It  by Gregory A.Freeman. William Morrow & Co; ISBN: 0066212677
	On July 29, 1967, tragedy struck one of the mightiest aircraft carriers in the U.S. fleet, the USS Forrestal. One of its jets accidentally fired a rocket across the flight deck and into a plane occupied by pilot John McCain. The lieutenant barely escaped his burning jet before one of its 1,000-pound bombs exploded, setting off a horrifying chain reaction. The fires -- which took days to extinguishnearly destroyed the ship and took the lives of 134 men. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 320 pages  (July 9, 2002)

 
 

In Harm's Way: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis and the Extraordinary Story of Its Survivors by Doug Stanton. St Martins Mass Market Paper. ISBN: 0312983379
	On July 26, 1945, the heavy cruiser Indianapolis steamed into port at the Pacific island of Tinian, carrying a cargo that would end World War II: the uranium that would be dropped on Hiroshima just three weeks later. Having delivered its load without incident, Indianapolis moved on toward the Philippines to join the great armada moving in on Japan. Though intelligence reports assured Captain Charles McVay that the route from Guam to Leyte was safe, there were Japanese submarines active in the area. On the night of July 29, having detected with sonar the clinking of dishes aboard the Indianapolis from a distance of more than adozen miles, the submarine I-58 sank the American ship, killing nearly 900 sailors in the explosion and its terrible aftermath. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 384 pages  (May 2002)

 
 

The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise by Edward Peary Stafford, Paul Stillwell (Introduction). Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557509980
	A lasting memorial to the USS Enterprise, this classic tale of the carrier that contributed more than any other single warship to the naval victory in the Pacific has remained a favorite World War II story for more than  twenty-five years. The Big E participated in nearly every major engagement of the war against Japan and earned a total of twenty battle stars. The Halsey-Doolittle Raid; the Battles of Midway, Santa Cruz,  Guadalcanal, the Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf; and the invasion of Iwo Jima. Click here to view details
Paper back - 616 pages  (May 2002)

 

Options for Funding Aircraft Carriers by J. L. Birkler (Editor). Rand Corporation; ISBN: 0833031678
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Hardcover - (May 2002)

 

The Independence Light Aircraft Carriers by Andrew Faltum. Nautical & Aviation Pub Co of Amer; ISBN: 1877853623.
	Naval aviation and aircraft carrier enthusiast and former intelligence officer Faltum details the light carriers that formed part of the fast carrier task forces of World War II Click here to view details
Hardcover -  (April 2002)

 

20th Century Complete Guide to Pearl Harbor: Encyclopedic Coverage of December 7, 1941  Remarkable Photographs, Oral Histories, Vessel Attack Reports, Casualty Lists, Japanese Force Information, Submerged Cultural Resources, USS Arizona Memorial  by Department of Defense. ISBN: 1931828350
	This electronic book on CD-ROM presents the tragedy of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941, as documented by the U.S. Navy and other federal agencies. This CD-ROM on the "day that will live in infamy" is extensively illustrated with photography, charts, graphs, and maps; United States and Japanese Aerial Photography is featured. The remarkable photography documents the carnage of Pearl Harbor: the explosions, fires, sinkings, and wreckage of ships, aircraft, and facilities. Also documented are the firefighting, rescue and salvage efforts. The coverage features a listing of all 101 vessels in or near Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Each of the ships damaged in the attack are profiled, led by the eight battleships: USS Arizona, USS California, USS Maryland, USS Nevada, USS Oklahoma, USS Pennsylvania, USS Tennessee, and USS West Virginia.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 5756 pages   (April 8, 2002)

 
 

Vietnam Air Losses: USAF, Navy, and Marine Corps Fixed-Wing Aircraft Losses in SE Asia 1961-1973 by Chris Hobson. Aerofax Midland Pub Ltd; ISBN: 1857801156
	This is a thorough and detailed review of all fixed-wing losses suffered by the USAF, Navy, and Marine Corps over a 12-year period. Includes information on unit, personnel, location, and cause of loss. Interspersed with the main text is general background information and material on campaigns, units, aircraft and weapons, and other relevant topics. Photos illustrate the various entries. For historians and the general public. Click here to view details
Paperback - 254 pages  (February 2002)

 

Sunburst: The Rise of the Japanese Naval Air Power, 1909-1941 by Mark R. Peattie.  United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557504326
	This is the vivid account of the Imperial Japanese Navy and its Naval Air Force. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 272 pages (February 2002)

 

Fleets of World War II by Richard Worth. Da Capo Press; ISBN: 0306811162
	For the first time ever for a popular audience, an extraordinary single volume that describes-and assesses in no-holds-barred fashion-every navy that took part in the Second World War. For decades, the legions of World War II buffs interested in Allied and Axis naval history were limited to expensive, multi-volume works written for specialists. No longer will this be the case. Fleets of World War II, packed with data and illustrated throughout, is not a simple list of ships but a fascinating and often pungent appraisal of those ships and the fleets they served. Japan built the world's largest battleships with guns bigger than anything in the Allied arsenal-but was bigger in fact better? The British engaged in a wartime flurry of ship production-but did they build the ships they needed for victory? Fleets of World War II dispels theclutter, providing a straightforward appraisal that is nothing short of revelatory.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 376 pages  (January 2002)

 
 

The Men of the "Gambier Bay" By Edwin P. Hoyt, Thomas H. Moorer (Introduction). Lyons Press. ISBN: 1585746436
	This is the vivid story of men at all levels-from the captain to the seamen-and the Japanese they faced in battle, first at the Marianas in June 1944 and finally on October 25, 1944, during the Battle of Leyte Gulf. In that engagement, the Navy bloodied the Japanese sorely, but at a grim price: The Gambier Bay became the only U.S. aircraft carrier in World War II to be sunk by naval gunfire.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 254 pages  (2002)
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Warship Boneyards by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner. Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0760308705
	Just as the U.S. Air Force sends obsolete warbirds to the Arizona desert for storage and disassembly, the U.S. Navy maintains a number of harbors for its obsolete vessels. This collection gives enthusiasts an admiral's tour of the naval storage harbors in Philadelphia, Norfolk, Pearl Harbor, and Bremerton, Washington, as well as the once-proud fighting vessels awaiting reassignment, sale, or the cutting torch. Author Kermit Bonner takes readers through the entire disassembly process from start to finish, describing in detail how these surplus cruisers, submarines, destroyers, and aircraft carriers are scrapped, including more complex processes involving nuclear submarines.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 128 pages  (July 2001)

Coral Sea, Midway and Submarine Actions: May 1942-August 1942 (History of United States Naval Operations in World War II, Volume 4) by Samuel Eliot Morison. Book Sales; ISBN: 0785813055
	This spectacular fifteen-volume series that charts the U.S. Naval operations during World War II with an insider's perspective. Morison, a Harvard professor, was given a special rank and writing post by FDR.  He had active duty aboard eleven different ships, allowing him to witness  many crucial battles in both the Atlantic and Pacific oceans. Volume Four - the second in this series on the war in the Pacific-turns the corner from defeat to victory, beginning with the first of the great carrier actions of thewar, the Battle of the Coral Sea. Filled with many maps and file  photographs.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 440 pages  (May 2001)

The Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet (Naval Institute Guide to the Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet, 17th Ed. By Norman Polmar . Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557506566.
	Book about the ships, aircraft carriers and aircraft of the US Fleet.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 592 pages (April 17, 2001)
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Nuclear Weapons and Aircraft Carriers : How the Bomb Saved Naval Aviation by Jerry Miller. Smithsonian Institution Press; ISBN: 1560989440;
	Naval aviation related. The U.S. Navy entered World War II with seven aircraft carriers and finished the war with nearly one hundred. However, with the advent of the atomic bomb in 1945 and its impact on strategic thinking, the future of naval aviation looked bleak. Rapid demobilization after the wareliminated many carriers, and most policymakers believed that future wars would be fought with nuclear weapons delivered by land-based aircraft, a method patented by the new U.S. Air Force. Miller demonstrates the success of the Navy's nuclear vision, which saved the aircraft carrier from extinction, and argues that the Navy's hard won nuclear capability played a significant role in ending the Cold War. In the final chapter, he reflects on this history and its participants, and he assesses the future of both the aircraft carrier and nuclear weapons in the twenty-first century.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 320 pages  (May 2001)

Carrier: The Art of War. By Keith Douglass. Jove Books; ISBN: 0515130443.
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Paperback - 272 pages Jove (April 2001)
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Supercarriers (Land and Sea). By Michael Burgan. Capstone Press; ISBN: 0736807608.
	Books about the US super carriers of today. Click here to view details
School & Library Binding - 48 pages (January 2001)
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Battleships and Carriers. By Steve Crawford. Grange Books; ISBN: 1840133376
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Hardcover - 320 pages (November, 2000)
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Military Aircraft Boneyards by Nick Veronico, A. Kevin Grantham, Scott Thompson, Nichola Veronico. Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0760308209
	For an aviation buff a walk through an aviation boneyard is a walk through aviation history. military aircraft boneyard is a tribute to those flying veterans. It tells the history and future of surplus aircraft.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 128 pages  (October 2000)

Carrier Battle Group (Power Series) . Stephen F. Tomajczyk, Steve Tomajczyk. Motorbooks International; ISBN: 0760307075.
	This covers information about aircraft carriers and battle groups. Click here to view details
Paperback - 128 pages (April 2000)
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Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy. by Daniel Madsen. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557505438
	A pictorial history of the U.S. Navy's mothball fleet, this handsome book takes a rare look at the so-called fleet behind the fleet, from the end of World War II to the present. Through photographs of the ships and shipyards where they were laid up and brief ship histories, it tells the storyof how these ships were paid off and preserved, how some were reactivated, and how most left the reserve fleet to be broken up. Additional photos of the ships in action remind readers that forgotten though they were while in mothballs, many made their marks on history. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 240 pages  (January 2000)

Aircraft Carriers. By Michael Green & Gladys Green. MetroBooks (NY); ISBN: 1567997228.
	Book about aircraft carriers of the United States and elsewhere. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 144 pages (November 1999)
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Aircraft Carriers, Submarines and Cruisers. By Camil Busquets. Lema Publications; ISBN: 8495323125.
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Hardcover - 95 pages (18 November, 1999)
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Carrier Air War: In original WWII color. By Bob Lawson & Barrett Tillman. Barnes & Noble Books; ASIN: 0879389834.
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Hardcover - 176 pages (March,  1999)
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Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll by James P. Delgado. University of Hawaii Press; ISBN: 0824818687
	In July 1946 fleet of 242 ships, among them some of the most famous of World War II, assembled off the shores of Bikini Atoll, 4,500 miles from San Francisco. There, in a massive military effort dubbed "Operation Crossroads," thousands of scientists and U.S. military personnel gathered to assess the atomic bomb's effect on warships in the world's first nuclear weapons tests. The author, a member of the team, offers a fascinating account of these events. Four decades later, in 1989, a highly trained team of underwater archaeologists returned to Bikini to evalu-ate the ships as historic and archaeological sites and as potential diving attractions. In Ghost Fleet, author James Delgado, a member of that team, offers a fascinating account of Operation Crossroads and the forgotten remains that have turned Bikini's lagoon into a vast underwater ghost town.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 204 pages  (1999)

Destined for Glory : Dive Bombing, Midway, and the Evolution of Carrier  Airpower. By Thomas Wildenberg. Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 1557509476.
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Hardcover - 304 pages 1557 (November 1998)
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CVX : A Smart Carrier for the New Era. By J. K. Davis. B.T. Batsford; ISBN: 1574881914.
	Examines the changing roles and missions of teh carrier platform in Service, Joint, and Allied/combined planning and assesses the Navy's plans for a new generation aircraft carrier.  Click here to view details
Paperback - 94 pages Revised (1 September, 1998)
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Combat Carriers. By Tony Holmes. Airlife Publishing; ISBN: 185310857X.
	Concentrating on naval aviation, this pictorial book looks at deck life "up on the roof" of the modern aircraft carrier and features footage of US, British, Italian and French naval vessels in action. Each chapter focuses on one type of naval combat aircraft and the men that operate them.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 143 pages (February1998)
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Aircraft Carriers (Land and Sea (Mankato, Minn.). By Michael Green. Capstone Press; ISBN: 1560655534.
	Nineteen photographs included in the 48 pages are clear & interesting. Large type and presentation aimed at 4th to 7th grade level readers. Not of general appeal as information about each class of carrier too limited & generalized.  Click here to view details
School & Library Binding - 48 pages (September 1997)
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Us Carriers at War  by Peter Kilduff.  United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557508585
	Some of the greatest exploits of US Navy aircraft carrier operations - in both the Atlantic and the Pacific - are told in this book by American aviation historian Peter Kilduff. The product of extensive research, this book portrays in personal account and from official documentation the stories of courage in the face of adversity and triumph after struggle that marked the air operations from the flight decks of the US Navy aircraft carriers at war.  Click here to view details
(Hardcover - April 1997)

City at Sea by Yogi Kaufman, Steve Kaufman (Contributor), Arleigh Burke. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557504571
	A look at U.S. Navy supercarriers. The text introduces the history, tactics, and internal organization of these ships, which operate with a crew of about 6,000, and offers comments from crew members rangingfrom captain to cook. The book's selling point, though, is its magnificent, technically outstanding, well-reproduced photographs--a series of vivid images registering the sheer size and complexity of the supercarriers. Click here to view details
Hardcover - October 1995

United States Navy Patches Vol I: Aircraft Carriers/Carrier Air Wings Support Establishments. By Michael L. Roberts.Schiffer Publishing; ISBN: 0887407536.
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Hardcover - 160 pages (May 1995)
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Carrier Wars: Naval Aviation from World War II to the Persian Gulf by Edwin P. Hoyt. Marlowe & Co; ISBN: 1569248745
	This is the account of Naval Aviation from World War II to the Persian Gulf Click here to view details
Hardcover - (April 1994)

The Fast Carriers : The Forging of an Air Navy. By Clark G. Reynolds. Naval Institute Press; ISBN:1557507015.
	The author starts with the development of fast carriers in the 20's and 30's, then outlines the early days of World War II when the US navy knew it had a powerful offensive weapon, but didn't quite know how to use it. This book concentrates on the creation of the air navy during its most interesting period, 1941-45, and details the change from the battleship navy to the fast carrier battle groups of today. He ends with America's success in developing carrier task forces and Air Admirals. If you are interested in this subject, you can't do better than this in one volume. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 503 pages Reissue (September 1992)
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US Aircraft Carriers in Action Part 1. By Robert C Stern, Don Greer (Illustrator), J Sewell (Illustrator) . Squadron / Signal Publications; ISBN: 0897472659.
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Paperback (28 November, 1991)
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Hybrid Warship: The Amalgamation of Big Guns and Aircraft by Stephen McLaughlin, R. D. Layman. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 1557503745
	A review of hybrid warships from the early 20th century to the 1980s. It highlights the difficulties in combining an ability to handle aircraft with any other useful military attributes. They cover designs from before the First World War to modern designs combining missiles and VTOL aircraft. In particular they reveal the difficulty of making a ship capable of carrying and launching a sufficient number of aircraft while at the same time possessing adequate protection and surface firepower.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - 224 pages  (March 1991)

Cv: Carrier Aviation (The Illustrated Combat Series)  by Peter Garrison, George Hall (Photographer). Berkley Pub Group; ISBN: 0425119785.
	Concentrating on naval aviation, this pictorial book looks at deck life "up on the roof" of the modern aircraft carrier and features footage of US, British, Italian and French naval vessels in action. Each chapter focuses on one type of naval combat aircraft and the men that operate them.  Click here to view details
Hardcover - (February1990)
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Tonkin Gulf Yacht Club: U.S. Carrier Operations Off Vietnam by Rene Francillon. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870216961
	A highly detailed history and a complete listing of ships, aircraft units, missions, and men. Click here to view details
Hardcover - (October 1988)

Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units 1964-73 by Squadron/Signal Pubns; ISBN: 0897472187
	This is a volume about Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units: 1964-73 Click here to view details
(June 1988)

Uss Missouri, Bb 63: Part 1, 1941-1984 (Warships Data, 2) by Robert F. Sumrall  Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc.; ISBN: 0933126670;
	This is the vivid history of this famous ship. Click here to view details
Hardcover -  (February 1986)

Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units: 1957-1963 by Duane A. Kasulka. Squadron/Signal Pubns; ISBN: 0897471725
	This is a volume about Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units: 1957-1963  Click here to view details
(January 1986)

U.S. Aircraft Carriers: A  Bibliography by A. Lani Low, James F. Muche. Fathom Eight; ISBN: 0910651124
	This is a U.S. Aircraft Carriers bibliography Click here to view details
(Paperback - January 1986)

Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units: 1946-1956 by Duane A. Kasulka, Publications Squadron signal. Squadron/Signal Pubns; ISBN: 0897471644
	This is a volume about Usn Aircraft Carrier Air Units: 1946-1956 Click here to view details
(June 1985)

The First Team: Pacific Naval Air Combat from Pearl Harbor to Midway by John B. Lundstrom. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870211897
	If you are interested in the history of the USN's carrier performance during WW2, this is an essential contribution evaluating and analyzing the surprisingly successful results the technologically inferior USN fighter squadrons experienced during the crucial first months of the pacific war. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 547 pages  (July 1984)

U.S. Aircraft Carriers : An Illustrated Design History. By Norman Friedman.Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 0870217399.
	Traces the development of the designs of aircraft carriers from 1917 to the present and examines the role of the carrier in the United States Navy.  Click here to view details
Hardcover (April 1983)
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Hunter-Killer: U.S. Escort Carriers in the Battle of the Atlantic by William T. Y'Blood. United States Naval Inst.; ISBN: 0870212869
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Hardcover - (October 1983)

Escort Carriers and Aviation Support Ships of the U S Navy by Stefan Terzibaschitsch. Wh Smith Pub; ISBN: 083172979
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Hardcover - 254 pages  (November 1981)

Carrier Strike Force: Pacific Air Combat in World War II by Ernest A. McKay. Julian Messner; ISBN: 0671431277
	Pacific Carrier war. Click here to view details
Hardcover - October 1981

Aircraft Carriers. By Antony Preston. Osprey; ISBN: 060030437X.
	llustrated with more than 100 colour and black and white pictures, this book deals not only with the aircraft carrier but also with its aircraft and the battles they fought.  Clichk here for more details
Hardcover 64 pages (29 February, 1980)
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Titans of the Seas: The Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces During World War II by James H. Belote. HarperCollins; ISBN: 0060102780
	This is the vivid account of the Development and Operations of Japanese and American Carrier Task Forces During World War II Click here to view details
Hardcover - May 1975

The catafighters and merchant aircraft carriers by Kenneth Poolman. Kimber; ISBN: 0718300521;
	This is the story of the ship borne catapult aircraft operations on Merchant Aircraft Carrier Ships. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 128 pages  (n.d)

Two-block fox; the rise of the aircraft carrier, 1911-1929 by Charles M. Melhorn. Naval Institute Press; ISBN: 0870217089;
	This is the account of the carrier in early aviation history. Click here to view details
Hardcover - 181 pages

Flat-tops and fledglings; a history of American aircraft carriers by Gareth L. Pawlowski. A. S. Barnes; ISBN: 0498076415
	This is a history of American aircraft carriers Click here to view details
Hardcover - 530 pages  (n.d.)