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Title: Submarine Grayback: The Life & Death of the WW II Sub, USS Grayback by Rick Cline
Review: This book was disappointing, with sloppy editing throughout there is no doubt that the book was hastily prepared by a novice "wanna be" historian writer. The generous "filler material" Cline included about day to day submarine life read more like a fictional account. The author has conveniently taken many questionable liberties writing about a submarine that was lost with all hands. Since there were no survivors, there is no one to verify anything Cline presents as fact in his book. There is some reliable information probably taken from official war patrol records when the author at least made the attempt to include something worthwhile. However that does not make up for the overall amateur effort made by the author to tell the story of the USS Grayback and crew. I would NOT recommend this book!
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