TITLE

On Our Scope

AUTHOR(S)

Latture, Richard G.

PUB. DATE

February 2006

SOURCE

Naval History;Feb2006, Vol. 20 Issue 1, p4

SOURCE TYPE

Periodical

DOC. TYPE

Editorial

ABSTRACT

The article discusses various reports on naval history published in this issue of the periodical. An article by John Steinbeck on Special Operations Task. He spent several months in 1943 reporting on the war from England and the Mediterranean. David W. McComb wrote two articles on destroyers. In the article "The 'Horrors of These Hulks,'" Robert E. Cray recounts how during the Revolutionary War Philip Freneau used his formidable poetic talents to condemn Great Britain for the conditions on board its prison ships and to call attention to the fact that the prisoners who died in them were buried in haste and without ceremony.

ACCESSION #

19228257

Tags: NAVAL history;  STEINBECK, John, 1902-1968;  DESTROYERS (Warships);  CRAY, Robert E.;  REVOLUTIONS;  PRISON hulks

 

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