Silent Running - 9780471127789

Silent RunningMy Years on a World War II Attack Submarine\nAuthor(s): James F. Calvert\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: John Wiley & Sons Inc, United States\nImprint: John Wiley & Sons Inc\nISBN-13: 9780471127789, 978-0471127789\nSynopsis\n\""I am just one of many who experienced life on a submarine duringWorld War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told--free of anyrevisionism or cynicism--and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert forsharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult andexciting time.\"" --President George Bush\n \""Hardened old sub vet that I am, I still felt the need for twoweeks R after reliving Jim's only too realistic warpatrolling adventures.\"" --C. W. Nimitz, Jr., Rear Admiral, USN(Ret.)\n \""I believe it is the best personal account yet written on [url] operations in the Second World War. [Calvert] writes withlucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of whatit was like, feeling the tensions and emotions, sharing thesuccesses and disappoi.