Run Silent, Run Deep is the World War II submarine novel that all of the others have to aspire to. A 1939 Naval Academy graduate, Ned Beach made only one war patrol in command of his own submarine, right at the end of the war, but he made eleven others in Trigger and Tirante, winning the Navy Cross as Tirante's executive officer. All of that experience provided a background for his first novel, written in his meagre spare time while service as President Eisenhower's Naval Aide.

If you've only seen the movie, you may be surprised by what happens in the novel it was supposedly based upon. Run Silent, Run Deep was a best-seller in 1955, and remains a great read to this day.

This is the Naval Institute Press' Classics of Naval Literature edition, cloth bound with ribbon marker.

In his exciting new novel of submarine warfare in World War II, author J.T. McDaniel takes the reader from the builder's yard in Connecticut, on through acceptance trials, and out to the Pacific fleet with the crew of the new fleet submarine Bacalao. Present during the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, Bacalao quickly sets out on an ill-fated first war patrol, where some officers learn more than they might like about themselves, and enemy depth charges nearly end the boat's career.

As the war progresses, so do the men in Bacalao's crew. One, Lieutenant Lawrence Miller, will go the farthest until, in the end, it will be his skill and luck that determines everyone's fate.

U.S.S. Barb (SS220) was the most successful American submarine of World War II in enemy tonnage destroyed, with a record 97,489 tons officially credited, and all but 2,200 tons during the final five war patrols under the command of Eugene B. Fluckey. In this big, non-fiction book Admiral Fluckey tells the story of how this happened.

Fluckey was among the most daring and innovative submarine commanders in the U.S. Navy. His surfaced penetration of Nam Kwan Harbor, where Barb attacked Japanese shipping in what the enemy believed to be a safe anchorage, resulted in a Medal of Honor for Fluckey. On Barb's final patrol, Fluckey mounted 5" rocket launchers on his sub and used them to bombard enemy coastal installations—the first time submarine launched rockets were used in warfare.

Fluckey also conceived the first (and only) "invasion" of the Japanese home islands, landing a group of volunteers who laid explosives before returning safely to the submarine. As a result, Barb was the only American submarine officially credited with the destruction of a train.

Edward L. Beach called this "The most important volume to come out of the German side of World War II." Making use of the official war diaries of the World War II German Kriegsmarine, Grand Admiral Karl Dönitz relates the story of his life, from childhood to the end of the war. Dönitz began the war as a captain, in charge of the u-boat program. As the war progressed, he rose in rank and eventually became a Grand Admiral and Commander-in-Chief of the Navy, ending the war as President of a defeated Germany. In this autobiography, Dönitz relates the frustration of fighting a war under a regime where political ideology took precedence over sound military principles, and vital long-range development was neglected by an over-optimistic "leader."

The translation by R.H. Stevens (in collaboration with David Woodward) is clear and highly readable. This edition also includes the original Introduction and Afterward by Prof. Dr. Jürgen Rohwer, and a new Forward by John Toland.