Surface and Destroy: The Submarine Gun War in the Pacific

by Michael Sturma

Book Overview

World War II submariners rarely experienced anything as exhilarating or horrifying as the surface gun attack. Between the ocean floor and the rolling whitecaps above, submarines patrolled a dark abyss in a fusion of silence, shadows, and steel, firing around eleven thousand torpedoes, sinking Japanese men-of-war and more than one thousand merchant ships. But the anonymity and simplicity of the stealthy torpedo attack hid the savagery of warfare --...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813129966
• ISBN13: 9780813129969
• Release Date: March 2011
• Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 18 years and up