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Title: The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise by Edward Peary Stafford, Paul Stillwell ISBN: 1-55750-998-0 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 5 (9 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Wow
Comment: I had no idea this book had been reprinted. I've had my copy for many years (since the early 70's) and re-read it every couple years. I was poking around the internet, looking for the ship's statistics (tonnage, in particular) and found this review page.
Now I'll have to order a new copy, as the pages in mine have all turned yellow and I have to be careful when reading it, lest it come apart. Come to think of it, I'll order two and put one in a plastic bag for when this one falls apart.
Needless to say, I think this book deserves five stars. It's a good book about one of the finest ships and crews to ever put to sea.
Rating: 5
Summary: The Definitive Account
Comment: First, I'll admit I'm not an unbiased reviewer. My dad served in Enterprise for three hard years ('42-45), and I've made my own efforts to tell her story.
That said, "The Big E" is without peer, as both a history of the World War II-era carrier Enterprise, and as a record of what carrier warfare in the '40's was like. Stafford's prose is both elegant and -- given the records he had available in 1960 -- accurate. His descriptions are vivid: you can feel the decks whip violently at Santa Cruz, you can see the vibrant green of the Philippines at Leyte Gulf, you can sense the tension in the ready rooms at Midway. Her men are not just names on a page, but tangible characters: bold, fast-thinking, humble, optimistic, but sometimes very worried about their prospects.
There are a couple points about the book which the prospective reader should be aware of. Stafford's focus is primarily on the ship's squadrons, and less so on efforts of her crew. Originally published over 40 years ago, some of the language is a bit dated, though, again, overall the writing is superb.
The fact, however, that a 40-year old book about a ship that was decommissioned in 1947 is deemed fit to reprint in 2002 should tell you two things. The book is not a throwaway, but a genuine work of literature. And Enterprise was not just a warship, but a unique bonding of man and machine, that came through for her country when she was needed most.
Rating: 5
Summary: 2nd copy
Comment: I have had this book since it was first published and I can no longer keep the book together, so it is time to replace it. I'm was thriller to see it still in print.
My father was a plank owner of the BIG "E" and loved the ship with a special love that only someone who have faced death and servived can feel. It was a disgrace to have her scrapped and after readin Cdr Stafford's incredible story, I believe that everyone would agree she(and more importantly the men who seved on her) were and are national treasures
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Title: USS Enterprise (CV-6): The Most Decorated Ship of World War II - A Pictorial History by Steven Ewing, Steve Ewing ISBN: 0933126247 Publisher: Pictorial Histories Publishing Co. Inc. Pub. Date: November, 1982 List Price(USD): $9.95 |
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Title: The Ship that Held the Line: The USS Hornet and the First Year of the Pacific War by Lisle Abbott Rose ISBN: 1557500088 Publisher: Naval Institute Press Pub. Date: 09 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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Title: The First Team and the Guadalcanal Campaign: Naval Fighter Combat from August to November 1942 by John B. Lundstrom, John B. Lundstom ISBN: 1557505268 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: December, 1993 List Price(USD): $49.95 |
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Title: Miracle at Midway by Gordon William Prange, Donald M. Goldstein, Katherine V. Dillon ISBN: 0140068147 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: November, 1983 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: A Battle History of the Imperial Japanese Navy, 1941-1945 by Paul S. Dull ISBN: 0870210971 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: February, 1978 List Price(USD): $47.50 |
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