Henry Hitch Adams (1917–2002)
Author of Italy at War
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Please don't combine with Henry Adams (also known as Henry Brooks Adams)
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Studies in Bibliography (Vol. 4) — Contributor — 1 copy
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- Birthdate
- 1917-03-26
- Date of death
- 2002-08-22
- Gender
- male
- Education
- University of Michigan (BA)
Columbia University (PhD) - Occupations
- Naval service
professor
travel agent - Organizations
- International Order of Military Historians
- Short biography
- Biography of Henry Hitch Adams
Henry Hitch Adams was born in Ann Arbor, Michigan on March 26, 1917. He graduated from the University of Michigan with an A.B. degree in 1939, received his M.A. in 1940, and his Ph.D. in 1942 from Columbia University. After service in the United States Navy during World War II aboard the destroyer escort U.S.S. Owen, Adams served as an instructor in English at Cornell University from 1945 to 1951, as Assistant, Associate, and full Professor at the United States Naval Academy from 1951 until the 1967-1968 academic year, and as Head of the Department of English at Illinois State University beginning in 1968. After retiring in the early 1970's, Adams returned to Annapolis to continue his writing, and subsequently moved to St. Petersburg, Florida and Oklahoma. Henry Hitch Adams died on August 22, 2002.
Professor Adams was author, co-author, or editor of a number of works about the sea. His publications include: 1942: The Year that Doomed the Axis (1967), Dramatic Essays of the Neoclassic Age (1950), English Domestic or Homiletic Tragedy, 1575-1642 (1943), Harry Hopkins: A Biography (1977), Italy at War (1982), Seapower: A Naval History (1960), Techniques of Revision: Perfecting the Theme (1951), Witness to Power: The Life of Fleet Admiral William D. Leahy (1985), Years of Deadly Peril (1969), Years of Expectation: Guadalcanal to Normandy (1973), and Years to Victory (1973). - Nationality
- USA
- Places of residence
- St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA - Burial location
- Rose Hill Cemetery, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA
- Disambiguation notice
- Please don't combine with Henry Adams (also known as Henry Brooks Adams)
- Associated Place (for map)
- Oklahoma, USA
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Gold standard of WW2 histories in my opinion, excellently blending text and pictorial study. Despite its age, it still holds up quite well in being accurate with the information it provides not succumbing to post war myths for either side.
This was the textbook for my first naval science class in college over 30 years ago. I found a copy of it at a thrift store for 98 cents, so naturally I had to buy it. It covers the history of naval warfare from earliest times (galley warfare) through the Cold War. As a student of military history, I devoured every page back then, and it is nostalgic going through it now . It contains lots of maps and diagrams of ship formations and has very informative overviews of nearly every major naval show more engagement in the 200 year time period from 1750-1980. show less
Read Chapters 11 through 22 as assigned reading during War at Sea in the Age of Steam elective in the fall/winter while at the NWC. Served as a textbook for half of the course. Many of the readings were repetitive when taking in at the same time as the assigned readings from "In Peace and War." As such, I did a lot of skimming. Despite that, this was a helpful tool during the course and I appreciated it more as a textbook to reference than a book that was enjoyable to sit down and read.
Sensationalist, but sometimes the method of arrangement is useful. It's strongly naval in orientation.
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