Isenberg, Michael T. <br/><br/>
Shield of the Republic :  the United States Navy in an era of Cold War and violent peace / 
Michael T. Isenberg. 
 - 1st ed. 
 - New York :  St. Martin's Press,  1993-. 
 - v. :  ill., maps ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/> The work is for my love Suzanne Hanson 
<br/><br/> Vol. 1. (xiii, 948 p.: ill., maps) 
<br/><br/> Michael T. Isenberg has chronicled, in the first of a projected two-volume study, the historic institution of the United States Navy in the Cold War era. Shield of the Republic, a definitive work on the era, demonstrates both a narrative sweep and a command of style that are rare in works of modern history. The overarching themes of the book are the emergence of the two superpower nations between 1945 and 1962 and an examination of the technologies that rang down the. Curtain on the Mahanian age of sail. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0312099118 (hbk) 9780312099114 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>United States--History, Naval--20th century<br/>United States--Navy--History--20th century<br/>United States--Navy