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(More customer reviews)Nice book. I read a lot of military books but will rarely read one that's not a first person account because I tend to not enjoy them as much. This however was an exception. It's well written and the author had access to a lot of information about the remarkable history of Capt. Beach Jr., including records and conversations with his family. What really made the book "work" is that it was clearly important to the author to do a first-rate job telling the Captain's story, and he did. This is a story of a true American who pursued excellence in everything he did throughout his life. This Country has benefited, and continues to benefit, from men like Capt. Beach Jr. and his father.
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One of the U.S. Navy s best known submarine officers, Capt. Edward L. Beach, enjoyed fame both as a bestselling author and as a highly decorated naval officer. Not long after the success of his first novel Run Silent, Run Deep, which was later made into a major feature film, he commanded the first submarine to circumnavigate the globe submerged. During World War II, Beach earned ten decorations for gallantry, including the Navy Cross, while on twelve combat patrols in the Pacific. Following the war, he became the public face of the submarine community and served as an aide to the first chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and to President Dwight D. Eisenhower. All the while, he continued to write books, a total of ten, including three novels, before his death in 2002.
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