books by Richard F. Newcomb (destroyed harrowing debacle)

books by Richard F. Newcomb

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The Battle of Savo Island: The Harrowing Account of the Disastrous Night Battle Off Guadalcanal that Nearly ...

4 reviews
Richard F. Newcomb

Holt Paperbacks, 2002

The precursor of ?The Bode Testament?
In the fall of 1961, I read the original version of this work. Upon completion, I was troubled and puzzled. I reviewed the entire work finding no answers to my many questions. This has little to do with the brilliant writing of Mr. Newcomb. In a highly interesting style, Mr. Newcomb wrote what history had to offer. It was the history itself that caused the quandaries. This is a fascinating ...

Abandon ship

34 reviews
Richard F Newcomb

Corgi Childrens, 1977

Damn That Torpedo
As a teenager in the early sixties I caddied for Charlie McVay frequently at the Litchfield Country Club, in Litchfield, CT. We thought then that we knew the story of the sinking of the Indianapolis, and we thought then that we knew the man who had been held responsible for the tragic loss of life, hours before the end of World War II. But it wasn't until Richard Newcomb's Abandon Ship! that ...

Iwo Jima

1 review
Richard F. Newcomb

Signet, 1966

Best Source Available on the Battle for Iwo
It is a shame that this book was not reprinted when FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS was released. I read Newcomb's IWO JIMA, as a used paperback book, back when I was in high school. At that time as a budding military history enthusiast I unfairly characterized the Pacific War as a series of back-water engagements separated by wide expanses of ocean and jungle. I gave the Japanese military very little ...

Iwo Jima

1 review
Richard F. Newcomb

Signet, 1966

Iwo Jima Vet
As a Marine veteran of the battle for Iwo Jima and having read many books on the battle I feel that, "Iwo Jima" by Richard Newcomb is the definitive book on what the battle was all about. The first time that I read it, it brought the whole thing back, it was almost like being there again.

Savo: The incredible naval debacle off Guadalcanal

1 review
Richard F Newcomb

Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1961

Interesting, but
neither a comprehensive account of the battle, nor a definitive attribution of responsibility. Falls somewhere between a long term paper & a doctoral dissertation in scope. Makes Rear Admiral Crutchley look like a stooge & Capt. Bode a victim. Hard to know if the author's instincts have a basis in fact; but clear, after a reading the book, that there was plenty of blame to go around.