{"product_id":"from-vietnam-to-the-arctic-circle-9781476688350","title":"From Vietnam to the Arctic Circle","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e   As a U.S. Navy officer, Jack Whitehouse served aboard a World War II-era destroyer at the peak of the Vietnam War, ran special operations on a patrol gunboat out of Guantanamo Bay following the Cuban Missile Crisis and deployed with the Royal Norwegian Navy to counter Soviet threats north of the Arctic Circle. His detailed memoir recounts American efforts to win the Cold War from the perspective of a young lieutenant on the front lines 1964-1975 and the personal struggles and perseverance of sailors fighting an existential enemy at sea.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eVietnam Vet by Elaine Kiesling Whitehouse\u003cbr\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e1. Why Join the Navy?\u003cbr\u003e2. A Life Changing Event\u003cbr\u003e3. Midshipman Tough\u003cbr\u003e4. Catastrophes of 1968\u003cbr\u003e5. Graduate, Marry and Join the Fleet\u003cbr\u003e6. Classmates Lost\u003cbr\u003e7. Deployment to Westpac\u003cbr\u003e8. Driving Ships and Yankee Station\u003cbr\u003e9. Ensign John Norton and the Evans\u003cbr\u003e10. DASH Ops and Bangkok\u003cbr\u003e11. Naval Gunfire Support and the Rodent Incident\u003cbr\u003e12. Hong Kong Mary, the China Fleet Club, and the Gulf of Tonkin Incident\u003cbr\u003e13. A Possible Kraken and Okinawa Legacy\u003cbr\u003e14. Wardroom Changes and Another Friend Lost\u003cbr\u003e15. Back to Vietnam\u003cbr\u003e16. Subic Bay and Olongapo\u003cbr\u003e17. Saving John Wayne and the Fight\u003cbr\u003e18. Project 100,000 and Typhoon Joan\u003cbr\u003e19. Homeward Bound\u003cbr\u003e20. Patrol Gunboats\u003cbr\u003e21. East Coast Here We Come\u003cbr\u003e22. Guantanamo Bay\u003cbr\u003e23. The Loss of a Best Friend\u003cbr\u003e24. Getting to Norway\u003cbr\u003e25. Welcome to the Norwegian Navy\u003cbr\u003e26. Deploying to the Arctic\u003cbr\u003e27. Life in the Far North\u003cbr\u003e28. The Lost Ship\u003cbr\u003e29. Not Visiting Leningrad\u003cbr\u003e30. The Shetlands, Back North, Sailing Subs\u003cbr\u003e31. The Sami\u003cbr\u003e32. The Turn\u003cbr\u003e33. Riding Norwegian Gunboats\u003cbr\u003e34. A Change of Course\u003cbr\u003eAppendix: Soviet Socialism and Its Influences Today\u003cbr\u003eAuthor's Service Record\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex","brand":"McFarland \u0026 Co Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51040506315095,"sku":"9781476688350","price":20.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781476688350.jpg?v=1750946957","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/from-vietnam-to-the-arctic-circle-9781476688350","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}