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as well as his "painfully obvious bias in favor of the U.S. Navy, and expressions of stereotypical sarcasm aimed at the French and
Italians." Weir said that Blair "missed the point" by failing to appreciate the "technically and strategically revolutionary" nature of the
33:(May 1, 1925 – December 16, 1998) was an American journalist and author, best known for his books on military history. Blair wrote some two dozen history books and hundreds of magazine articles that reached a popular audience.
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U-boat and preferring to focus on "solvable engineering problems". Weir dismissed Blair's fundamental assumptions and theses on the German Navy as primitive and anachronistic and called
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Pacific Campaign: The U.S.–Japanese Naval War 1941–1945
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War without mercy: race and power in the Pacific war
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Korean War: Handbook of the Literature and Research
867:Silent Victory: The US Submarine War Against Japan
782:The World War II Bookshelf: Fifty Must-Read Books
628:"Part II – Clay Blair with Island Writers – 1994"
509:University of Wyoming. American Heritage Center.
1025:. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press.
410:The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
216:The Forgotten War: America in Korea, 1950–1953
208:(1983), published after the general's death.
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512:Inventory of the Clay Blair Papers
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