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The Big E: The Story of the USS Enterprise | 
 enlarge | Author: Edward P. Stafford
Creator: Paul Stillwell
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Category: Book
List Price: $24.95
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Rating:  14 reviews
Sales Rank: 114657
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 585
Shipping Weight (lbs): 2.3
Dimensions (in): 8.8 x 5.9 x 1.3
ISBN: 1557509980
Dewey Decimal Number: 940.545973
EAN: 9781557509987
ASIN: 1557509980
Publication Date: May 2002
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Product Description
A lasting memorial to the USS Enterprise, this classic tale of the carrier that contributed more than any other single warship to the naval victory in the Pacific has remained a favorite World War II story for more than twenty-five years. The Big E participated in nearly every major engagement of the war against Japan and earned a total of twenty battle stars. The Halsey-Doolittle Raid; the Battles of Midway, Santa Cruz, Guadalcanal, the Philippine Sea, and Leyte Gulf; and the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa are all faithfully recorded from the viewpoint of the men who served her so well. The author, a naval aviator, focuses on the exploits of the famous ship's air groups, capturing the reality of their encounters and provoking a range of emotions from readers. This superb study of a great ship, her crew, and the action they saw has been called one of the finest pieces of naval writing to emerge from the war. What it is like inside the cockpit of a Dauntless dive bomber as it bores in on its target or the effort required to unstick the ship's huge rudder when damaged by a bomb are just two of the nuggets Edward Stafford mined from the mountain of research and lengthy interviews he conducted to write the book. Literate and scholarly as well as highly dramatic, the book will appeal to historians and the general public alike.
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Great Gift January 21, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
I bought this book and another for my father. He was on the USS Enterprise during his time in the navy and has recently started reading old war books. Great price and arrived very quickly. My dad was happily surprised when he opened this gift. I don't expect he'll ever read the whole book but he's read bits and pieces of it since Christmas.
read this book July 17, 2007
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This is one of the best books ever wrote on WWII. I wish it could have gone more into the actual deck operations but you cannot really fault the auther. What astonishes me most is the number of times pilots understood that they had no fuel and would have to ditch into the ocean but still pushed on watching there friends and squadron mates go down in battle. I recommend to everyone.
My favorite book ever. January 31, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
If you enjoy WW2 History. Specifically US Navy genre, it can't get any better than a book about a ship whose name will live forever(and deservedly so). Got an old 2nd hand book years ago and it remains my prized book.
This is such a classic!!! January 16, 2005
3 out of 5 found this review helpful
I absolutely adore this book, and am on at least the third copy I've owned, having worn the others out.
CDR Staffor has written an absolutely magnificient tome. He covers both the scope of the War in the Pacific, and the exploits of the Enterprise herself very thoroghly and in incredible detail.
I've always been interested in the Enterprise, especially considering that my dad was a pilot in the last Air Group ever assigned to the ship.
Her story is the story of the pacific, and the coming of age years of naval aviation. The early giants of naval aviation commanded her, and the greats of this horrible war flew from her decks, and helped to build her legend.
This book is one of the pillars that must be read in order to develop a thorough understanding and appreciation of the war in the Pacific.
It's just a great shame that the campaign to save her from the scrapper's torch failed. It's ironic that the ship that the enemy could never destroy ended up losing her life to a torch a few hundred miles from her birth place.
This is a great book.... August 27, 2004
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
Two sections in this book stand out in my mind. One was the section talking about the crew as they enter Pearl Harbor immediately after the attack. You could feel the emotions as you read about them and you could imagine how they felt as they saw the destruction. The other is the ending. It was almost as if the author were writing about the death of a person instead of a ship.
This is a very well writen book about a very important ship in our history. There are not too many ships that have the record of the Enterprise and there probably will not be too many more like her. The book reads like a novel instead of a historical book and it breathes life into the ship and her valiant crew.
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