I finished P.T.Deutermann's
Ghosts of Bungo Suido. It is an excellent read for anyone interested in the USN submarine campaign against Japan, although I think
Run Silent, Run Deep (non-fic) is still tops in that respect. I have Richard O'Kanes
Clear The Bridge (non-fic) on my TBR, so that could change. O"Kane was one of the legendary commanders.
I am halfway through
Away All Boats by Kenneth Dodson. It was as good as I remember. Barely fiction though, as most of the action in the book parallels Dodson's war record - probably more of a memoir. Unfortunately, this book doesn't seem to have made it to ebook; I was lucky to have my old paperback still around. I am pondering having it scanned.
I was planning to re-read
The Cruel Sea, since I got the ebook recently. I remember how impressed I was reading that book when I was 14; I can still remember parts of it vividly. I recently came across Monsarrat's
Three Corvettes, an omnibus of three short works that he wrote and published during the war. I can see some of the details that showed up later in
The Cruel Sea. I plan to finish
Three Corvettes before re-reading The Cruel Sea.
Three Corvettes doesn't seem to be available as an ebook at amazon.com or amazon.ca although it is available at amazon.uk. Kobo has a free version of
H.M. Corvette, which is the first of the three pieces.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Three-Corvet.../dp/B00946TPDO
http://store.kobobooks.com/en-CA/ebook/h-m-corvette
I'm starting to read C. Northcote Parkinson's
Richard Delancey novels, set during the Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars. Parkinson (of
Parkinson's Law fame) was a professional naval historian, and an excellent writer, so I am enjoying
Devil To Pay, the first in the series (but not the first chronologically). It tastes like the Hornblower novels. Parkinson did write a fictional biography of Hornblower -
The Life and Times of Horatio Hornblower, which I read decades ago, but now recall no details of.
Oddly, the Richard Delancey novels are readily available as ebooks in Canada, but their availability as ebooks seems to be spotty elsewhere. That is the reverse of my usual experience.
