Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

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Sea Stories: My Life in Special Operations

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Fascinating...McRaven's war stories deliver remarkable insight into the life of a wartime leader."— Publishers Weekly I found this book extremely easy to read in its presentation, but also one that was direct and forthright in the circumstances being described...whether it was a delightful memory or an important and somber remembrance. Yes, the same guy who gave us Treasure of the Sierra Madre. The nameless narrator ships on the Yorikke…and soon wishes he hadn’t. A chilling allegory that would give Joseph Conrad nightmares. 6. Kon-Tiki by Thor Heyerdahl His days working at the White House. “I had arrived at the White House just five days earlier assigned to my new position as the Director of Strategy and Military Affairs in the Office of Combatting Terrorism. My boss, retired four-star General Wayne Downing, had persuaded Admiral Olson that my services would be better utilized in the White House, helping orchestrate the war on terrorism, than on the Navy staff in the Pentagon.”

Parkinson, C. Northcote, ed. Portsmouth Point: the Navy in fiction, 1793–1815. (Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2005).

For a good yarn and a nautical history lesson Nicolas Monsteratt’s “Darken Ship” and “Running Proud” can’t be beat. Another of his novels “The Cruel Sea” will break your heart. Also consider “Gray Lady Down” and “Gray Seas Under” by Farley Mowat.

W. H. Auden, The Enchafed Flood or The Romantic Iconography of the Sea. London: Faber, 1951, p. 61. The book is well-written and readable, and McRaven���s humor and compassion really shines through. He provides great human portraits of his associates (which some readers might find a little gushing at times, but, given the units involved, it’s hard to doubt, too) However, McRaven doesn’t have many reflections to share about the America’s lengthy wars following 9/11; when he does, he usually writes about his hope in a vague sort of way. I understand why McRaven decided to make the book accessible for the masses. Understood, but some of us technical junkies wanted more information on the weapons used. George Garrett, "Conrad's The Nigger of the 'Narcissus ', The Collected George Garrett, ed. Michael Murphy, p. 240.Lawrence, D.H. (1923). Studies in Classic American Literature . London: Penguin Books. ISBN 9780140183771. Teachout, Terry (3 November 1998). "Don't Give Up the Ship". New York Times . Retrieved 9 February 2015. No Free Rides," " Sailor Mouth," " No Weenies Allowed," " Jellyfish Jam," and "The Algae's Always Greener" are not on the VHS version, making this the second DVD to have episodes not released on VHS. The first was with the Halloween DVD. Davis ll, James. "The Red Rover and Looking at the Nautical Machine for Naturalist Tendencies". Archived from the original on 2016-03-03 . Retrieved 2015-01-27. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers No. 25, May 2008, pp.10–13. Clohessy, Ronald John (2003). "Ship of State: American Identity and Maritime Nationalism in the Sea Fiction of James Fenimore Cooper". University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee. Archived from the original on 2016-03-04 . Retrieved 2015-01-27. {{ cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= ( help) Originally published in James Fenimore Cooper Society Miscellaneous Papers, No. 24, August 2007, pp.3–8



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