Silent Running
My Years on a World War II Attack Submarine

I've read a shelf-load of WWII submarine biographies and this is one of the better ones. One of the things I liked about it was that the author wasn't the skipper of the boat, but came aboard as a green Ensign just out of submarine school and, over the course of a few action-packed wartime years, wo......more

For my money, the best WW2 submarine memoir I've read. It is particularly effective because Calvert was a junior officer and not the skipper of the submarine and this was a nice change from the typical "view from the top" memoir. I also was very impressed at the candor Calvert displayed when talking......more

A great ww2 read......more

Calvert, skipper of the Skate, the first submarine to surface at the North Pole, and third person chosen by Admiral Rickover to command a nuclear submarine, describes his Annapolis studies and eventual choice of submarine duty as his service during World War II. He is uncommonly forthright in this m......more

Silent Running is a remarkably forthright and exciting account of a junior officer who served on two submarines during nine war patrols. The account likely benefits from being written by a Vice Admiral after he had retired from the Navy and his second career in industry. The wisdom earned through a......more