Submarine Author:Captain Edward L. Beach For the first time, the true and heroic story of submarine warfare in the Pacific in World War II is told by a man who lived through it! This is the simple, powerful story of the U.S.S. Trigger from the day Edward L. Beach joined her, before she was commissioned, until he left her just before her last tragic patrol three years later. And tales... more » of other submarines and of the gallant officers and enlisted men who engaged them in the fight against the Japanese. In this account, you are there with the men in the submarine, patrolling the dark sea, stalking the enemy ship, maneuvering for the lethal blow. Your eye is at the periscope as the command :Fire!" rings out - you share the tense minutes as the torpedo streaks for its mark, the jubilation when it hits, the sickening frustration when a defective one runs wild. And you are there, too, in the sweating darkness when the depth bombs turn your frail ship into a shuddering nightmare of shock and terror with the suspence of knowing that metal is being strained nearly to the bursting point. 'A genuine World War II thriller-diller: a first-hand account of a lot of guys with a lot of nerve who shortened the war by taking tremendous gambles." Philadelphia Inquirer« less