Showing Silent Running: My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine by James F. Calvert

Paperback. Pub Date: 1997 Pages: 320 Publisher: John Wiley I am just one of many who experienced life on a Submarine during World War II. Silent Running is a story sincerely told-free of any revisionism or cynicism-and I commend Vice Admiral Calvert for sharing this dramatic personal account of that difficult and exciting time.-President George Bush Hardened old sub vet that I am. I still felt the need for two weeks R & R after reliving Jim's only too realistic war patrolling adventures.-CW Nimitz. Jr .. Rear Admiral. USN (Ret.) I believe it is the best personal account yet written on US submarine operations in the Second World War. [Calvert] writes with lucidity and a rare candor. We get an extraordinary sense of what it was like. feeling the tensions and emotions. sharing the successes and disappointments .... This is a true story with teal people. always gripping and some...