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(More customer reviews)I bought this book hoping to get first-person accounts of submarine warfare from a variety of sources. I got half that. Plenty of sub warfare and espionage stories, virtually all from U.S. or Royal Navy history. The only exceptions were the story of the Russian ICBM sub K-219 which suffered an accident while on station that killed several crewmen and nearly caused a reactor meltdown. The other is an dry essay on the Cold War Russian sub fleet by two American writers. There is plentiful information about the sinking of Japanese subs by U.S. Navy crews, and some mention of the German U-Boats. There are no chapters dedicated to the story of crews from either of the Axis forces, despite the fact that the German navy consisted almost entirely of submarines during the war, and the Japanese fielded a sizable and effective sub force as well. I know Larry Bond belongs to the same super-patriot gang of writers such as Tom Clancy and Stephen Coonts, but still, the "bad guy's" subs were used very effectively during the war (until overwhelmed by Allied resources) and it would have been interesting to read about their very different perspective on the events of World War II. If you're new to the world of sub warfare, there is a lot to be learned about the subject in this book. It's just that you'll only learn how we did it, and how much better we are at it than anyone else.
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