Now Hear This: The Memoir of a Junior Naval Officer in the Great Pacific War

by Douglas Edward Leach

Hardcover

First published January 1, 1987

About the author

A leading authority on 17th century colonial American history, Douglas Edward Leach graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Brown University in 1942. After service as a deck officer in the U.S. Navy during World War II, he earned his M.A. (1947) and Ph.D. (1952) from Harvard University. Leach began his career as a history professor at Bates College, Lewiston, Maine, where he taught from 1950 until 1956. In 1956, he joined the faculty at Vanderbilt University where he remained until his retirement in 1986.

Reviews

[Robert · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good for what it was, a recap of one mans WWII service. Heavy on the minutia (lists of ships and directions) but quite informative on aspects of day to day naval service and - particularly - in the oft overlooked details of creating and mobilizing an office corps from - essentially - scratch.

Pleasantly though, it is one of the more acurately titled historical volumes I have read; this is a memoir, not a history.