Paul J Stillwell

Reflections Of Pearl Harbor: An Oral History Of December 7, 1941

The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers

Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History

Battleship New Jersey: An Illustrated History

Air Raid, Pearl Harbor!: Recollections of a Day of Infamy

Carrier War: Aviation Art of World War II

Breathtaking paintings by the most respected aviation and military artists preserve the moment when the aircraft carrier became the cornerstone of naval warfare. Begin with the earliest demonstrations of planes flying from and landing on ships, and the carrier's evolution in the period between the w...

The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise, Illustrated Edition

“Her admirers will by grateful to Commander Stafford for preserving so much of her so well.” -- New York Times“The unbelievable career of the bravest and most effective warship America ever built, excitingly recorded.” -- Life“An action-packed drama of living men in a ship with a soul.” -- San Franc...

Carrier War : Aviation Art of World War II

Synopsis Breathtaking paintings by the most respected aviation and military artists, preserve the moment when the aircraft carrier became the cornerstone of naval warfare. The British, Japanese, and US fleets all obtained true carriers, with their numbers growing wildly by World War II. Written, wit...

Battleship Missouri: An Illustrated History

Now available in paperback, this book traces the complete story of the Missouri from her keel-laying in 1941, her participation in the Japanese surrender in 1945, and her contribution to the Persian Gulf War. Through extensive interviews and research with records from the Naval Heritage and History ...

Battleship Arizona: An Illustrated History

The "Arizona's" story has never before been told in such rich personal detail. Using a technique that proved so successful in his book on the battleship "New Jersey, " Paul Stillwell draws on nearly one hundred interviews of former crewmen and countless official documents to present a complete histo...

The Golden Thirteen: Recollections of the First Black Naval Officers (Bluejacket Paperback Series)

In January 1944 sixteen black enlisted men gathered at the Great Lakes Naval Training Station in Illinois to begin a cram course that would turn them into the U.S. Navy's first African-American officers on active duty. The men believed they could set back the course of racial justice if they failed ...

Battleships

From the sinking of the Maine, which sparked the Spanish-Ameri can War, to the devastating losses in the attack on Pearl Harbor, Battleships have played a crucial role in the history of modern naval warfare. Tracing the development of the battleship from the commissioning of the first seagoing c la...

Assault on Normandy: First-Person Accounts from the Sea Services

Personal recollections provide a vivid and memorable account of the June 1944 Allied assault on Normandy, focusing on the role of the U.S. sea services.