Captain John Rodgaard, USN (Ret.) has 41 years in the US Navy, with 29 years as a naval intelligence officer. His published works are A Call To The Sea: Captain Charles Stewart of The USS Constitution; A Hard Fought Ship: The Story of HMS Venomous, and From Across the Sea: North Americans In Nelson's Navy. He is a recipient of the Naval Institute's History Author of the Year. He has contributed numerous articles/reviews to maritime/naval history periodicals. He co-edits The 1805 Club's The Trafalgar Chronicle. Rodgaard holds an A.B. in History and Political Science; an M.A. in Political Science, and is a 1994 Naval War College graduate.
"""[John Rodgaard has] nicely set the context of the Cold War at Sea and bring the reader to a new understanding about the Mediterranean Sea, really a sea of many seas, both horizontally and vertically, in a three-dimensional way.""--Dr. William 'Bill' Dudley, Former Director of the US Navy's Historical Center ""An evocative account of U.S. naval operations in the Mediterranean during the Cold War.""--Professor John B. Hattendorf, Author of ""Reflections on Naval History"""