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Title: Run Silent, Run Deep by Edward Latimer Beach ISBN: 0-8217-2408-8 Publisher: Kensington Mass Market Pub. Date: July, 1988 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $3.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Page turner!
Comment: This thriller was hard to put down; I read it in record time. Captain (then Commander) Beach grabs the reader's attention early in the novel and holds it tight right up to the end. One is almost sorry that the book is over, and I plan to look for the sequels and Captain Beach's other work.
It even has a love interest, but a rather demure, reserved, discreet, indirect, and tepid one by the standards of 1990s popular culture.
The climax is shocking.
It hadn't occurred to me, but other reviewers' speculation seems apt that Tom Clancy probably read this book before he wrote Hunt for Red October.
It's hard to imagine a such a pleasant gentleman, then an officer on active service, not yet forty years old, with a wife and children, banging out such a compelling yarn in his spare time. One has to admire him.
I regret having waited 45 years to read this book, though I think I remember my parents reading it much sooner. If you have an interest in the Navy, in submarines, in WWII's Pacific war, or just a spellbinding war story, then you should read and enjoy Run Silent Run Deep.
Rating: 5
Summary: A realistic novel of submarine warfare in WW II
Comment: "Run Silent, Run Deep" is the first in a series of novel by Edward L. Beach concerning Captain Richardson and his crew, and their exploits through the ages of naval warfare. This book starts at the begging of World War Two, with the training of Richardson's crew, and takes the reader up to the defeat of an infamous Japanese destroyer commander nicknamed Bungo Pete. Any potential reader of this book should note that the only resembleance to the movie of the same title is the names of the ships and charactors. This, in my opinion, is because Hollywood was not ready, in the pre-Vietnam era, to end a movie the way this book ended.
Beach's writing style probably influenced Tom Clancy, in that there is a lot of technical discussion, as well as strong charactorization and motivation. When one reads the early part of the book, when Richardson and co. are training up, one feels that one could get on a Gato class submarine and help the fire control party fire torpedos. But, the best part is the end, which I won't give away. As Richardson hears of his friends and people he has trained dying at the hands of Bungo Pete, it can only lead to his actions in the final battle. Read it and see.
Rating: 4
Summary: Great novel.
Comment: I read this book for school knowing I would like it, and I loved it. I have read most submarine novels and this is by far one of the best. The jargon is alittle tough but past that it is very engaging. Also watch the DVD.
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Title: Thunder Below!: The Uss Barb Revolutionizes Submarine Warfare in World War II by Eugene B. Fluckey ISBN: 0252066707 Publisher: Univ of Illinois Pr (Trd) Pub. Date: August, 1997 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Clear the Bridge! : The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang by Richard O'Kane ISBN: 0891415734 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 17 December, 1996 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Wahoo : The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine by Richard O'Kane ISBN: 0891415726 Publisher: Presidio Press Pub. Date: 01 June, 1996 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Submarine! (Bluejacket Paperback Series) by Edward L. Beach Jr. ISBN: 1591140587 Publisher: United States Naval Inst. Pub. Date: 31 March, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: The Cruel Sea by Nicholas Monsarrat ISBN: 1580800467 Publisher: Burford Books Pub. Date: April, 2000 List Price(USD): $18.95 |
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