In 1942-1943 Commander Bell (USNA 1924) commanded USS Grayson (DD 435) through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War. (He retired as a R. Admiral in 1947 after further wartime command tours and tours at BUPERS.) Back in the U.S. in mid-1943 he wrote this book, before the memories faded. I read it not long after and I recall vividly how it helped to shape my determination to become a naval officer.
To think of this as a book of military history can be misleading; it's a personal experience of war from the perspective of a unit commander. He knew little of U.S. plans less of the enemy's, and writing in 1943 he had no way of knowing how it would all end. But if you want to know what it was really like then this is a great book.
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