Norman Polmar

Norman Polmar is an author specializing in the naval, aviation, and intelligence areas.^[2]

Norman Polmar
Born	(1938-05-14) May 14, 1938 (age 87) Washington, D.C.
Alma mater	American University, B.A., 1965
Notes
[1]

He has led major projects for the United States Department of Defense and the United States Navy, and foreign governments.^[2] His professional expertise has served three Secretaries of the U.S. Navy and two Chiefs of Naval Operations.^[2] He is credited with 50 published books, including nine previous editions of Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet and four editions of Guide to the Soviet Navy.^[2] Polmar writes a column for Proceedings^[2] and was editor of the United States and several other sections of the annual publications of Janes Fighting Ships.^[3]

In 2019, the Naval Historical Foundation awarded Polmar the Commodore Dudley W. Knox Naval History Lifetime Achievement Award.^[4]

Bibliography

• Spy Book: The Encyclopedia of Espionage by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
• Death of the Thresher
• The Naval Institute Guide to Ships and Aircraft of the U.S. Fleet^[5]
• Project Azorian: The CIA and the Raising of the K-129 by Norman Polmar, Michael White, Michael White Norman Polmar
• Rickover: Controversy and Genius, a Biography by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
• Strategic Air Command: People, Aircraft, and Missiles
• Guide to the Soviet Navy
• Defcon-2: Standing on the Brink of Nuclear During the Cuban Missile Crisis
• Code-Name Downfall: The Secret Plan to Invade Japan and Why Truman Dropped the Bomb by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
• Defenseless: Command Failure at Pearl Harbor by Jack Lambert, Norman Polmar, Jack W. Lambert
• Naval Air War in Vietnam by Peter B. Mersky and Norman Polmar
• The Enola Gay: The B-29 That Dropped the Atomic Bomb on Hiroshima by Norman Polmar
• World War II: The Encyclopedia of the War Years 1941-1945 by Norman Polmar and Thomas B. Allen
• Spy Ships: One Hundred Years of Intelligence Collection by Ships and Submarines by Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers
• Opening the Great Depths: The Bathyscaph Trieste and Pioneers of Undersea Exploration by Norman Polmar and Lee J. Mathers