Who Can Hold the Sea Audiobook Libro.fm

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A closeup actionfilled narrative about the crucial role the US Navy played in the early years of the Cold War from the New York Times bestselling author of The Fleet at Flood Tide

A lucid fastmoving and fitting finale to Hornfischers careerThe Wall Street Journal

This landmark account of the US Navy in the Cold War Who Can Hold the Sea combines narrative history with scenes of stirring adventure onand underthe high seas In 1945 at the end of World War II the victorious Navy sends its sailors home and decommissions most of its warships But this peaceful interlude is shortlived as Stalin Americas former ally makes aggressive moves in Europe and the Far East Winston Churchill crystallizes the growing Communist threat by declaring the existence of the Iron Curtain and the Truman Doctrine is set up to contain Communism by establishing US military bases throughout the world

Set against this background of increasing Cold War hostility Who Can Hold the Sea paints the dramatic rise of the Navys crucial postwar role in a series of exciting episodes that include the controversial tests of the Abombs that were dropped on warships at Bikini Island the invention of sonar and the developing science of undersea warfare the Navys leading part in key battles of the Korean War the dramatic sinking of the submarine USS Cochino in the Norwegian Sea the invention of the nuclear submarine and the dangerous firstever cruise of the USS Nautilus under the North Pole and the growth of the modern Navy with technological breakthroughs such as massive aircraft carriers and cruisers fitted with surfacetoair missiles

As in all of Hornfischers works the events unfold in riveting detail The story of the Cold War at sea is ultimately the story of Americas victorious contest to protect the free world