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Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 54. Chapters: Stephen E. Ambrose, Edward L. Beach, Jr., Edward C. Kalbfus, Alfred Thayer Mahan, Laurie Mylroie, Eliot A. Cohen, Jesse B. Oldendorf, Walter Krueger, Roy R. Rubottom, Jr., Raymond A. Spruance, Robert S. Wood, William John Maxwell, Tasker H. Bliss, Yoram Dinstein, William C. Martel, Thomas Barnett, Hans Kelsen, Edward Walter Eberle, Rebecca L. Schiff, James Carafano, Dudley Wright Knox, Craig Symonds, Richmond K. Turner, Henry E. Eccles, Josiah Bunting III, Ruth Wedgwood, Charles Stockton, Thomas C. Mendenhall, Lawrence Korb, John Bassett Moore, John Lewis Gaddis, William V. Pratt, Sergei Khrushchev, Stephen Luce, Geoffrey Wawro, George Grafton Wilson, Howard S. Levie, Theodore Ropp, Clarence H. Haring, John A. English, Andrew E. Gibson, Mackubin Thomas Owens, Charles H. Stockton Professor of International Law, John H. Kemble, Ernest J. King Professor of Maritime History, James R. Soley, Nikolas Gvosdev. Excerpt: Edward Latimer Beach, Jr. (April 20, 1918 - December 1, 2002) was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer and best-selling author. During World War II, he participated in the Battle of Midway and 12 combat patrols, earning 10 decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross. After the war, he served as the naval aide to the President of the United States and commanded the first submerged circumnavigation. Beach's best-selling novel, Run Silent, Run Deep, was made into the 1958 movie by the same name. The son of Captain Edward L. Beach, Sr., and Alice Fouche Beach, E. L. Beach, Jr., was born in New York City and raised in Palo Alto, California. Beach was appointed to the U.S. Naval Academy in 1935 by Senator Hiram Johnson of California. Beach served as a regimental commander in his first class year. Beach was named as the midshipman who had done the most to promote naval spirit and...