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Run Silent, Run Deep, by Edward L. BeachThere are many historical novels about Bibliography, Edward L. Beach
The book was written by The story begins shortly before the attack on Pearl Harbor. An American submarine captain, Edward "Rich" Richardson is given a new boat - Walrus - with orders to destroy Japanese shipping in the Pacific. His executive officer and his former best friend, Jim Bledsoe, is resentful because Richardson had felt it necessary to fail him after Bledsoe acted in a reckless manner during his test for qualification for command, after he had made several mistakes and nearly sunk their boat. Walrus’s first patrol is tough. Just outside of "Area Seven" (the Bungo Suido), Walrus has its first encounter with "Bungo Pete," an elusive Japanese destroyer commander, Captain Tateo Nakame, who is responsible for a series of sinkings of American submarines and who seems to know the names of his victims. After a severe depth charge attack, Richardson is forced to abort to Midway. After a patrol near the Aleutian Islands, Richardson learns that "Bungo Pete" has claimed three more American submarines. Walrus returns to the Bungo Suido, and conducts an amazing surface attack on a Japanese convoy during nighttime. As before, Bungo Pete arrives on the scene with his guns blazing, and Richardson is wounded and nearly killed by Japanese shellfire. Richardson is forced to stay ashore to rehabilitate, and convinces his superiors that Jim Bledsoe now is ready for command. Accordingly, Jim is promoted to Captain of the Walrus, and goes on to become one of the most successful captains of the war.  Edward L. Beach Jr. While rehabilitating for several months in Pearl Harbor, Richardson played a major part in an effort to correct severe reliability problems in the Mk 14 torpedo's exploder. In the meantime, Bungo Pete is still on the loose, and has sunk more submarines, including Jim Bledsoe’s and Richardson’s Walrus. Richardson begs to be given command and sent to Area Seven to take care of Bungo Pete. He wants revenge, and he feels that he knows Bungo Pete well enough to be able to deal with him. He is given command of the Eel, one of the most modern submarines in the US Navy, and returns to Area Seven. The battle that ensues between the Eel and Bungo Pete's special anti-submarine warfare group is epic. Naval fiction about submarines can hardly get better than this. It has excellent descriptions of equipment, life onboard, tactics and so forth. The characters are interesting too, and the writing is to the point and good. Run Silent, Run Deep is a very compelling and believable book, and the writing takes the reader into the minds, souls, and terror of the crew of a submarine at war. Run Silent, Run Deep really is a landmark novel, and also very entertaining and suspenseful. I loved it! Dust on the Sea, by Edward L. BeachThis book picks up right after This time Eel and its captain, Edward “Rich” Richardson, have been assigned to a newly formed wolfpack team, and is sent on patrol in the Yellow Sea during World War II. The primary mission is to prevent the Japanese from moving troops. The Eel is the command ship of the wolfpack, and also the base of its commander, commodore Blunt. Rich's superior quickly shows signs that he has problems. There seems to be something going on with the commodore, quite possibly some sort of mental illness or problem, which adds significantly to the difficulties Rich and his crew have to face. Dust on the Sea is full of action and very suspenseful. Rich in technical and tactical detail, the book draws on Beach's years of experience as a submariner in the U.S. Navy. Describing the commander and crew of the fictitious USS Eel as they battle overwhelming odds to destroy Japanese ships and save American lives, Beach treats readers to a superb blend of action, adventure, and the personal agonies of men in wartime. The Eel and the other boats in the wolfpack hunt convoys are detected and chased by planes and anti-submarine ships, are depth charged, and fight to overcome technical problems and a commodore with some severe problems. There is no margin for error while the men withstand storms, depth charges, and even hand-to-hand combat to defend their boat and themselves. Mistakes, as the book's title reminds us, result in that streak of debris known as "dust on the sea," which briefly serves as a grave marker for sunken ships. Dust on the Sea is an excellent, very suspenseful and well written submarine novel. A great read! Cold is the Sea, by Edward L. BeachThis follow up to the widely acclaimed submarine fiction novel Run Silent, Run Deep features some of the same characters as Richardson now has been promoted to command a squadron of submarines, Squadron 10, in the new nuclear navy. After some fights with a character that seemingly is modeled after the famous Admiral Rickover, he is sent away to get his nuclear training – possibly the toughest training course he has ever had, and the one with the most far reaching implications as well. Even so, neither his training nor his experience as a commander could possibly prepare him for what he and his friends in squadron 10 were to encounter when they were given a secret mission to map out the Arctic from under the ice. The story focuses on the Cushing, a nuclear sub whose sixteen missile silos carry more explosive power than all the munitions used in both world wars. The submarine is on a secret mission to the Arctic Ocean to determine whether her missiles are effective when fired from beneath the ice. When the Cushing is incapacitated with a suspicious Russian sub lurking in the vicinity, the scene is set for a dramatic novel rich in all the technical detail and submarine lore that have entertained millions of readers of Captain Beach's other novels. The story of this book, especially the last half of it, is extremely suspenseful. It is a tale of an event that is fictional, but the even so is of a type that could have occurred during the Cold War. It is a chilling tale of nuclear submarines out on a dangerous mission that encounter unanticipated problems that require the crews to improvise, of bureaucratic control structures that end up costing lives, and of submarine battle in the era of the nuclear marine. Even though this book is not quite up to the standards of Run Silent, Run Deep, Edward L. Beach does an excellent job. Cold is the Sea is a great and very interesting novel, which I very much enjoyed reading. |
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submarines during World War II, and several which are excellent. Run Silent, Run Deep, written by Edward Latimer Beach, Jr., who was a highly-decorated United States Navy submarine officer, is one of the best ever written. This book, which was also filmed, has been referred to by some as “the Holy Grail of submarine novels”, “an American equivalent of Das Boot” and “a landmark novel”.
Beach while he served as Naval Aide to President Eisenhower, and first published in 1955. It quickly became a bestseller. The current edition of this book, which includes an interesting introduction by 
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the end of Run Silent, Run Deep. We meet the same characters as in the previous book. And again, the focus in on USS Eel, one of the most lethal weapons in America’s submarine arsenal. Now the war in the Pacific winds toward its climax, and the submarines play an important part in the US attack strategy.
the previous novel. We meet once more Captain "Rich" Richardson, the US Navy hero. However, this new novel takes place 15 years after the end of World War II. The US Navy has now for many years been building a fabulous new class of submarines – nuclear submarines. It started with the USS Nautilus, launched in 1954.
