Vat Dan Van Der, Author, Dan Van der Vat, Author, Dan Van Der Vat, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (374p) ISBN 978-0-395-65242-8
The first workable prototype--the Fenian Ram--of an underwater warship was designed by Irishman John Holland in 1882. By the turn of the century, the U.S., Britain and especially Germany began to equip their navies with submarines. The submarine...
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Dan Van der Vat, Author . Overlook $26.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-59020-223-4
Winston Churchill as First Lord of the Admiralty is the central figure in naval historian van Der Vat’s (The Ship that Changed the World
) account of a disaster that prolonged the Great War by two years and laid the groundwork for the collapse
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Dan Van der Vat, Author HarperCollins Publishers $25 (424p) ISBN 978-0-06-015967-2
Van der Vat ( The Ship That Changed the World ) reminds readers that the Allies came close to losing both world wars for exactly the same reason: massive destruction of shipping. He leaves no doubt that the U-boat was Germany's most cost-effective...
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Dan Van der Vat, Author Simon & Schuster $30 (448p) ISBN 978-0-671-73899-0
Van der Vat ( The Atlantic Campaign ) traces the economic, diplomatic and social developments that led Japan to war in the 1930s and turned the U.S. into its main enemy in the 1940s. His fast-paced narrative, augmented with such brief personal...
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Dan Van der Vat, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $30 (416p) ISBN 978-0-395-65243-5
Speer, a young architect seeking work, proposed to Hitler a night rally that would be geared to suggest infinite space by employing a backdrop of 10-story flags and a wall of 150 searchlight beams. When Hitler's construction genius, Fritz Todt, died
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Dan Van der Vat, Author Basic Books $39.95 (176p) ISBN 978-0-465-08982-6
With photographs, paintings by Tom Freeman, and soldier and civilian testimonies, Pearl Harbor: The Day of Infamy An Illustrated History memorializes a day of bitterness, sorrow and resolve for many Americans. Author Dan van der Vat (The Good Nazi)...
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Dan Van der Vat, Author, John S. D. Eisenhower, Introduction by . Bloomsbury $40 (176p) ISBN 978-1-58234-314-3
This fluently written and lavishly illustrated volume on the Normandy invasion and campaign covers ground that will be familiar to many readers, but offers many details (such as the different weather requirements of different services) that some...
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Dan Van der Vat, Author, Van Der Vat Dan, Author HarperCollins Publishers $12.95 (0p) ISBN 978-0-06-091631-2
Van der Vat reminds readers that the Allies came close to losing both World Warsper web. for exactly the same reason: massive destruction of shipping. In what PW called a ``comprehensive study,'' the author details air/naval confrontations across...
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