Robert Shenk is a professor of English at the University of New Orleans and a retired captain in the Naval Reserve. His books include the prize-winning history America’s Black Sea Fleet: The U.S. Navy Amidst War and Revolution, 1919-1923, and the History Book Club selection Authors at Sea: Modern American Authors Remember Their Naval Service (both published by the Naval Institute Press). His edition, Playships of the World: The Naval Diaries of Admiral Dan Gallery, 1920-1924 was published by the University Press of South Carolina. As a naval officer, Shenk served on a destroyer in the South China Sea and on river patrol boats in the Mekong and Vam Co Tay rivers of South Vietnam. He also taught three years apiece at the U.S. Air Force Academy and U.S. Naval Academy.
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