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Title: Ghost Fleet: The Sunken Ships of Bikini Atoll by James P. Delgado ISBN: 0-8248-1868-7 Publisher: University of Hawaii Press Pub. Date: 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.83 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.8 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Excellent follow-up
Comment: My Dad was there (USS Reclaimer) - swimming in the atoll the day after the blasts, cleaning refuged ships, etc. It's amazing he's still alive.
Nice photos; good summaries. This isn't a full-blown account of Operation CrossRoads but a nice summary of the ships. If you are interested in OC, this is a good book to have on your shelf.
Rating: 4
Summary: Fascinating and Absorbing
Comment: This is a great mini-coffee table book (get the hardcover if you REALLY dig this stuff!) offering hours of information and photos of the famous atomic bomb tests on naval ships at Bikini Atoll. The 190 page book is broken into nine chapters and has excellent notes on sources. Background information covers the first half of the book while the second is focused on recent dives to many of the famous and lesser known ships that were sunk here. The writing is very informative and the photographs are absolutely haunting, particularly the ones of the aircraft carrier USS Saratoga! Several color photos are included in the center. The author pushes no agenda in this book. He merely reports the facts available both "good and bad".
Rating: 5
Summary: Wreck-Diving Nirvana
Comment: James Delgado does a very good job of reviewing the sunken ships of Bikini Atoll and telling the story of the 1946 atomic bomb tests. I read this book after diving at Bikini Atoll and found it to be a good treatment of a topic that has received too little attention. As far as wreck diving goes, Bikini Atoll is the best in the world, and my only disappointment with this book is that it does not fill the need for a coffee-table-style photographic survey of the incredible shipwrecks at Bikini. That being said, Delgado's book is a nice compromise between such a coffee table book and the more comprehensive historical treatment in Jonathan Weisgall's superb book on Bikini Atoll.
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Title: Warship Boneyards by Kit Bonner, Carolyn Bonner ISBN: 0760308705 Publisher: Motorbooks International Pub. Date: July, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Forgotten Fleet: The Mothball Navy by Daniel Madsen ISBN: 1557505438 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: January, 2000 List Price(USD): $36.95 |
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Title: Operation Crossroads: The Atomic Tests at Bikini Atoll by Jonathan M. Weisgall ISBN: 1557509190 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $39.95 |
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Title: Return to Midway: The Quest to Find the Yorktown and the Other Lost Ships from the Pivotal Battle of the Pacific War by Robert D. Ballard, Rick Archbold, Glen Marullo, Keith Morehead ISBN: 0792275004 Publisher: National Geographic Pub. Date: October, 1999 List Price(USD): $40.00 |
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Title: For the Good of Mankind: A History of the People of Bikini and their Islands (Second Edition) by Jack Niedenthal ISBN: 9829050025 Publisher: Micronitor/Bravo Publishers Pub. Date: 30 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.99 |
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