"With If By Sea, George Daughan has written an informative and engaging work. No dry recitation of facts, Daughan's text is instead a fast-moving history of the birth and maturation of the embryonic U.S. Navy of the American Revolution. By interweaving the story of the navy's inception with the military and political dynamics of the era, Daughan has produced a unique and original work."
George W. Emery was appointed the 24th Commander of U.S. and Allied Atlantic Submarine Forces by President Clinton. Now retired, he served for nine years as a member of the Secretary of the Navy's Subcommittee on Naval History.
The Weekly Standard Review
Founders Afloat. "The fortunes of the nation and its navy" have always been linked
"In his first paragraph George Daughan quotes President John Kennedy's foreword for Naval Documents of the American Revoution. The words that Daughan selected to establish a premise for his own work were written by Kennedy to express the hope that the Naval Documents series would "make it amply clear the critical role played by sea power in the achievement of American Independence." "
"Daughan meets that challenge in absorbing detail, beginning with the intitial deployment in December 1775 of a Contintental Navy squadron against New Providence and continuing through scores of naval actions and ploitical disputes, both large and small. And to his credit, he avoids depicting naval actions as freestanding events, instead showing how they were more often than not linked to the land war."
Joseph F Callo is the author, most recently, of John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior.
"In his first paragraph George Daughan quotes President John Kennedy's foreword for Naval Documents of the American Revoution. The words that Daughan selected to establish a premise for his own work were written by Kennedy to express the hope that the Naval Documents series would "make it amply clear the critical role played by sea power in the achievement of American Independence." "
"Daughan meets that challenge in absorbing detail, beginning with the intitial deployment in December 1775 of a Contintental Navy squadron against New Providence and continuing through scores of naval actions and ploitical disputes, both large and small. And to his credit, he avoids depicting naval actions as freestanding events, instead showing how they were more often than not linked to the land war."
Joseph F Callo is the author, most recently, of John Paul Jones: America's First Sea Warrior.
Boston Globe Review
Tracking a sea change in a nascent nation and its navy
".......it is in telling the story of its beginnings in the "guerrilla navy" of the Revolution that "If By Sea" willl have enduring innterest to naval history buffs."
Michael Kenney is a freelance writer who lives in Cambridge, Mass
".......it is in telling the story of its beginnings in the "guerrilla navy" of the Revolution that "If By Sea" willl have enduring innterest to naval history buffs."
Michael Kenney is a freelance writer who lives in Cambridge, Mass
The Star-Leger, Newark, NJ Review
"This superbly achieved intensely researched history of the U.S. Navy is, in a way, an enterprise in second-guessing - brilliant second-guessing - by a writer with the advantage of 200 years of hindsight."................
Tom Mackin served as a U.S. Navy correspondent in World War II. He lives in Lakewood, NJ.
Tom Mackin served as a U.S. Navy correspondent in World War II. He lives in Lakewood, NJ.
The Post and Currier, Charlestown, SC Review
" "If By Sea" is a commendable book in concept and accurately accounts for the development of the American Navy in the context of ongoing Revolutionary events. ................., this work is a praiseworthy addition to American naval history."
Ben Moise, is a writer who lives in Charleston, SC.
Ben Moise, is a writer who lives in Charleston, SC.
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