Title: Riding on ... dull
Product review: I'm not a navy veteran or military history scholar, but I've read quite a few books on U.S. and British ships in World War II. Good ones include "Tin Can Sailor" and "The Cruel Sea" -- NOT "Riding on Luck". Its flowery writing is a bit too "rah-rah, here we go!" and doesn't back it up with compelling prose. The author tells you it was exciting, but doesn't show you -- not surprising since he wasn't there. Knight, the son of a Lang sailor, manages to make even cruises with FDR aboard boring and dull, and he fails to describe the destroyer in any real detail. The author provides a backdrop of the war while the Lang is at sea, and I found these explanations a nice try, but overly simplistic. The last straw was bad grammar, dropped words and other printing errors.
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