Jack Sweetman
Is a member of the history department of tthe U. S. Naval Academy. Born in Orlando in 1940, he graduated from Stetson University in 1961 and later served as a company commander in the U. S. Army. He was a Ford Fellow at Emory University, where he received his Ph. D. in 1973. Formerly associated editor of the Naval Institute Proceedings, Dr. Sweetman is the author of The Landing of Veracruz: 1914 and the U. S. Naval Academy: An Illustrated History and translator of Battleship Bismarck: A Survivor's Story by baron Burkard von Müllenheim - Rechberg. He is series editor of Classics of Naval Literature, a collection of works by America's foremost writers of naval history, fiction, and biography. This series includes Rear Admiral Charles E. Clark's My Fifty Years in the Navy, which Sweetman also edited.
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