Ned Beach's RunSilent Run Deep

AntEater · 05-20-07, 05:15 AM

I was a bit disappointed by "Submarine!". I thought it was just Ned's personal account of his time on Trigger, instead it was a rather murky account of the US submarine force's greatest heroes, with a bit of Trigger mixed in.
It was certainly an important book in the 1950s, when most of the US public had never heard about the Wahoo or the Harder. But today, there are better and more precise accounts of everything in "Submarine!"
In german, you would call "Submarine!" as some kind of "Landserstil", as it reminds me of the semi-fictionalized accounts published in the "Landser" magazine in 1950s Germany.
Also keep in Mind Beach was an active US Naval officer, and he concealed things and deliberately described some procedures vaguely or falsely in his early books, for the sake of operational security.

Just finished reading "cold is the sea". Started great, but the end was a bit of a disappointment.

05-20-07, 05:15 AM	#11
AntEater Grey Wolf Join Date: Apr 2005 Location: Germany Posts: 936 Downloads: 0 Uploads: 0	I was a bit disappointed by "Submarine!". I thought it was just Ned's personal account of his time on Trigger, instead it was a rather murky account of the US submarine force's greatest heroes, with a bit of Trigger mixed in. It was certainly an important book in the 1950s, when most of the US public had never heard about the Wahoo or the Harder. But today, there are better and more precise accounts of everything in "Submarine!" In german, you would call "Submarine!" as some kind of "Landserstil", as it reminds me of the semi-fictionalized accounts published in the "Landser" magazine in 1950s Germany. Also keep in Mind Beach was an active US Naval officer, and he concealed things and deliberately described some procedures vaguely or falsely in his early books, for the sake of operational security. Just finished reading "cold is the sea". Started great, but the end was a bit of a disappointment. __________________