Recommended by a friend. Started reading it and saw the list of other items this author has written and said, "haven't I read him before?" Well, I did, didn't think much of it and can't say I thought this was very good either. Much of the problem lies in the fact that Moore is trying to tell several stories at once, and wants to share bios of all the crewmen of several boats with us as well. In brief: a submarine has an accident and sinks in 1939. That boat will be raised and sent out on Pacific patrols later in the war. There's another sub that comes to help rescue some of the crew of the sinking in 1939. That sub will be on patrol later in the war, get sunk by the Japanese, have some of that crew become POW's on a carrier that will get sunk by the sub that sunk and was raised in 1939. Ok, so lots of coincidences here, and many storylines that have to be discussed. Unfortunately, it's easy to get confused about which storyline is going on at that moment, and unless you really discuss incidents in detail, it becomes a shallow portrayal. Also, Moore introduces us to many crewmembers all at once, but then never talks about most of them ever again. The descriptions of the subs in action are the best part of the book. I wish there would have been more of it. ( )