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cruisers culm inating in H MS H ood, rhe rebirth of German seapower during rhe 1930s and rhe construction of Bismarck. M any questions are answered in this interesting study. Why did British Admiral H olland expose H MS H ood to rhe plunging Germ an shellfire that rook advantage of H ood's vulnerable deck armor? H ow could the gunnery officers aboard H ood mistakenly open fire on Prinz Eugen at firs t insread of the m ore deadly Bismarck? What types of fire control op tics were employed that enabled the Germans to hit H ood by the fifth German salvo and ye t rendered British fire so ineffective? T hese and other questions are answered in this almost roundby-ro und study of the battle. Additionally, Appendix A presents an excellent discussion of naval gunnery as it was practiced d uring the Second Wo rld War. While not the las t battleshi p-versusbartleship engagement ofrhe Second World War (that honor goes to the sinking of the Japanese Fuso and Yamashiro by the US Navy during the battle of Leyte G ulf, 25 Octo ber 1944), rhis is by far the bestknown by the general public. Winklareth has indeed shed new light on a battle that will continue to fasci nate readers and historians alike for many years to come. HAROLD
N. BOYER
Asto n, Pennsylvania
Joining the War at Sea, by Franklyn E. Dailey, J r. (D ailey International Publishers, Wilbraham MA, 1999, 460pp, illus, appen , ISBN 0-966625 1-0-2; $2 1.95pb) The autho r grad uated fro m the US Naval Academy in June 1942 and, as an ensign, was ordered to USS Edison (DD439) for h is firs t d ury assignment. H e remained aboard until September 1944, when he was detached for fli ght training. D uri ng that rime Edison rook part in the amphibious landings at Casablan ca, Lake Bizerte and Sicily, Salerno, Anzio, and southern France, m ainly as a shore bombardment vessel. T he book is substantially a narrative of Edison fro m launching in 1940 to scrapping in 1965 . D ailey intertwines WWII history in the story of the ship, starting in 1939 and going thro ugh rhe surrender on USS Missouri. T he author's personal experiences and descriptions of action on his ship give one a first-hand feel for what it was like, altho ugh his digressions into the history of
the war glo bally and h is fre quent references to Admiral Morison 's histo ry of the Navy in that war tend to co nfuse the narrative. H owever, as D ailey says: "This autho r is in a bit o f a discovery process himself, as the connection between theater events in Wo rld War II becomes clearer to him. I am on a journey of my own here, no t so much to recall wh at I did know (som e of which was in error) but to recall what I did not know." For the reader who is no t familiar with the history of that war at sea, this is a very complete treatment. It also convincingly conveys the thoughts of a young officer and his persp ective on the war, reached without benefit of much info rmation beyo nd his immediate ship's orders. T his reviewer can remember his own fr ustration in trying to sense h ow his ship's activities fir in to the "big" picture while serving on a small naval ship in the Pacific during the sam e war. TOWNSEND H ORNOR
The Hungry Ocean, by Linda G reenlaw (Hyperion, New York NY, 1999, 265pp, map, appen, ISBN 0-7868-6451 -6; $22.95hc; ISBN 0-7 868-854 1-6; $ 14pb) T h is hard-eyed, no-nonsense acco unt of a 30-day longlining trip to the G rand Banks is written by the captain of the H annah Boden, sister ship of rhe Andrea Gail, th e vessel m em orialized in Sebastian J unger' s The Perfect Storm. Greenlaw, who survived the H alloween Storm of 199 1, sketch es a way of life and a cast of characters th a t is full of hard truths and surprises . H er style is as direct and unprettified as the scenes sh e writes about. The grinding ro utine of longlining, the long hours (fo ur hours sleep in every 24) the technique of selecting a prime spot for locating swordfis h, th e strategy of working with other captai ns who are at once your competito rs and yo ur friends, rhe challenge of keeping yo ung and aggressive crewmen from physical conflict- these are some of rhe daunting tasks that com e with the job of running a fishing boat. G reenlaw, wh o was raised in M aine, came to fis hing as a summer job during h er college years. A graduate of C olby College with a degree in English, she nonetheless continued fishing after graduation, having discovered that she enjoyed the life and was good a t the job. She is forthri ght about her own ~s ho rtco mings and abo ut those of her crew and the vessel's owner and taskmas-
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