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The Ablest Navigator: Lieutenant. Paul N. Shulman USN, Israel s Volunteer Admiral
Author(s): J. Wandres (Author)
- Publisher: Naval Institute Press
- Publication Date: 31 Aug. 2010
- Language: English
- Print length: 208 pages
- ISBN-10: 9781591149521
- ISBN-13: 1591149525
Book Description
The amazing true story of an emerging nation and its naval force. This action-packed tale focuses on a young U.S. Naval Academy graduate who helped create the Israeli Navy and led it into battle at the onset of Israel s War of Independence in 1948. J. Wandres s book is the first to record the crucial role played by Paul Shulman in the formation of the new nation, and in doing so, he provides a unique window on Israel s history and its relations with the United States. Following his WWII service on a U.S. Navy destroyer, Shulman resigned his commission to help smuggle Holocaust survivors into Palestine. By early 1948, at the age of twenty six, he was training officers for a new Israeli Navy. The author draws on interviews and correspondence with those who knew Shulman, Israeli and American archives and declassified secret U.S. State Department documents to tell this riveting story.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Wandres has done an admirable amount of research, as evident from his detailed bibliography, endnote and glossary of modern Hebrew terms that was very useful for understanding the book. –Naval History Book Reviews, July 2011
About the Author
J. Wandres is a retired U.S. Navy public affairs specialist who has edited two award-winning magazines. He lives in Aberdeen, NJ.
