War Beneath the Waves, Don Keith
War Beneath the Waves, Don Keith
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War Beneath the Waves
A True Story of Courage and Leadership Aboard a World War II Submarine

Author: Don Keith

Narrator: Stephen Hoye

Unabridged: 6 hr 39 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 04/19/2010

Synopsis

In November 1943, while on war patrol in the Makassar Strait, the USS Billfish submarine was spotted by the Japanese, who launched a vicious depth charge attack. Explosions wracked the sub for fifteen straight hours. With his senior officers incapacitated, diving officer Charlie Rush boldly assumed command and led key members of the crew in a heroic effort to keep their ship intact as they tried to escape.

Now, in War Beneath the Waves, this intense story is finally told in all its harrowing detail. It is an inspiring tale of one man's leadership and courage under fire, and of the remarkable efforts of a submarine crew to do their duty and save their ship.

About Don Keith

Don Keith is a native Alabamian and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he received his degree in broadcast and film with a double major in literature. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting. He is also the only person to be named Billboard magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years and also owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station, and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.

His first novel, The Forever Season was published in fall 1995 to commercial and critical success. It won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award in 1997. His second novel, Wizard of the Wind, was based on Keith's years in radio. Keith next released a series of young adult/men's adventure novels cowritten with Kent Wright set in stock car racing, titled the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing series. Keith has also published several nonfiction historical works about World War II submarine history and coauthored The Ice Diaries with Captain William Anderson, the second skipper of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine.

Mr. Keith lives with his wife, Charlene, in Indian Springs Village, Alabama.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Charles on 2011-04-04 12:26:45

excellent book.very very good

Goodreads review by Hannah on January 03, 2021

So I was having some troubles staying interested in this story, I think because it's way out of my usual genres that I read so diving into a nonfiction book was really out of the norm for my brain. The beginning was dragging a bit, and that's why it took me so long to complete (I began in September)......more

Goodreads review by Tom on October 07, 2023

This is a short book that tells an amazing story. You know it's amazing because at the end, we hear that other submariners were amazed by it. I had a few complaints as I read, mostly because I felt uninformed by the author about how exactly submarines communicated with one another during WWII, how s......more

Goodreads review by Thomas on May 20, 2023

Great, harrowing adventure under the waves. Depicts the longest sustained depth-charge attack directed at a submerged American sub that was actually survived--but just barely. Only much later did the real story finally surface--a tale of a panic attack, cowardice, and bravery. The US Navy protects i......more

Goodreads review by Alan on October 06, 2018

A great read. Anyone who has served aboard submarines, especially diesel boats, will fully appreciate this book. The courage and tenacity of those WWII sub sailors was remarkable. BZ to Capt Rush. DBF......more

Goodreads review by M on August 28, 2024

Not a bad read but should really be labeled for young readers. It is a bit more than 200 pages and double spaced. The story is of a young lieutenant who must take command of a submarine during a Japanese attack while the senior officers are incapacitated. The suspense factor could have been greatly......more

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