Author: Gannon McHale
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
From Baird Online:
Another really good ship history written from the perspective of the "lower deck".
The author is a widely experienced actor who happened to spend three years of his youth as an enlisted man (rating) on the 'USS Sturgeon' during the late 1960s.
Perceptive and observant, the author describes life on that "hot rod" of the sea in a personal and fascinating way. He contrasts it with his final posting to the US Navy's last conventional submarine USS 'Dogfish', an amazing difference.
Throughout, he emphasises that, whatever the boat, it is the people rather than the technology that really count.
An interesting approach and a valuable result.
Ordering Information:
Naval Institute Press
Annapolis, USA
Web: www.nip.org
