Run Silent Run Deep

6 best books like Run Silent Run Deep (Edward L. Beach): Das Boot, The Cruel Sea, HMS Ulysses, Beau Geste, Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine, Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

Das Boot

Author	Lothar-Günther Buchheim
ISBN	0304352314

It is autumn, 1941, and a German U-boat commander and his crew set out on yet another hazardous patrol in the Battle of the Atlantic. Over the coming weeks they must brave the stormy waters of the Atlantic in their mission to seek out and destroy British supply ships. But the tide is beginning to turn against...

The Cruel Sea

Author	Nicholas Monsarrat
ISBN	1580800467

“[T]hat was the way the war was going; the individual had to retreat or submerge, the simple unfeeling pair of hands must come to the fore. The emphasis was now on the tireless machine of war; men were parts of this machine, and so they must remain, till they fulfilled their function or wore out. If, in...

HMS Ulysses

Author	Alistair MacLean
ISBN	0006135129

The novel that launched the astonishing career of one of the 20th century’s greatest writers of action and suspense – an acclaimed classic of heroism and the sea in World War II. Now reissued in a new cover style.The story of men who rose to heroism, and then to something greater, HMS Ulysses takes...

Beau Geste

Author	P.C. Wren
ISBN	0899681352

Questions of duty and decency as shield over a loved one are examined in this wonderful novel of adventure and friendship. Michael, Digby and John (the Geste brothers) run away to join the French Foreign Legion in Algeria after the "Blue Water" sapphire disappears and Lady Brandon (the aunt who has raised...

Wahoo: The Patrols of America's Most Famous World War II Submarine

Author	Richard H. O'Kane
ISBN	0891415726

The career of the USS Wahoo in sinking Japanese ships in the farthest reaches of the Empire is legendary in submarine circles.

Christened three months after Pearl Harbor, Wahoo was commanded by the astonishing Dudley W. "Mush" Morton, whose originality and daring new techniques led to results...

Clear the Bridge!: The War Patrols of the U.S.S. Tang

Author	Richard H. O'Kane
ISBN	0891415734

People come up to me all the time and ask, "M'Lord, why do you read books about WWII submarine warfare written by people who commanded submarines during WWII?" My response is that I read such books because there's nothing in the fiction genre (excepting perhaps The Hunt for Red October or Run Silent, Run...