Claude Conner weaves a compelling tale of his experiences in the Pacific aboard the USS Guardfish; one of the Navy's top-scoring World War II submarines. Tragically; the Guardfish also was the only submarine to sink another American warship in a little-known friendly-fire accident against the USS Extractor. This well-documented memoir chronicles Guardfish's Hollywood-like war actions; including her perilous forays into Japanese-controlled harbors; daring rescue of personnel from a Japanese-held island; near catastrophic flooding of the submarine's conning tower; depth-charge attacks; and much more.The author includes rare firsthand accounts by a dozen Extractor survivors who describe actions leading up to their encounter with the submarine; the actual sinking of the ship; their rescue; and their subsequent treatment by Navy officials. Conner examines the chain of events that led to the regrettable sinking and offers details of the Court of Inquiry that followed and for which he testified as a witness. This book was highly recommended by World War II historian Clay Blair when first published in 1999.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. Good for agrarian practices in particularBy CuriousThe work can be seen as a bit dry; but certainly offers some picture of some daily practices and gives a taste of an agrarian life style that is not rendered at all in the literature I have had the fortune to read. The work does not have a huge degree of information on urban existence; although it does address some urban locales; archeological findings and likely structures. Urban life reconstruction; to be fair; would seem to be much more complex and perhaps even variable and might be hard to give any valid reconstruction to.1 of 1 people found the following review helpful. It's written clearly for a general audience and does well at covering all the bases and giving a good picture of standard life iBy Aidan RogersI got this book for a graduate-level course; but it's certainly not graduate-level reading. It's written clearly for a general audience and does well at covering all the bases and giving a good picture of standard life in Biblical times. I gave it three stars because it's good; but it's not life-changing.0 of 0 people found the following review helpful. Daily lifeBy Grammy BIn this book the author has researched so many aspects of what the ordinary person would be experiencing during their life from villages; housing; the family; agriculture; herding; diet; art and much more. I haven't finished it yet but it's a wonderful supplement to a course I'm taking on Early Christianity.
