Wolf of the Deep

Reader was almost enough to get me to abandon this book. He reads, at least initially, every clause like it was a bullet-point in a PowerPoint presentation. Eventually, I acclimated to the reader. Semmes was an interesting person, but not so interesting that I think anyone would have written his biography, had he not been captain of CSS Alabama. I read military histories of the American Civil War because, in my civilian, non-historian opinion, they show the progression from nice uniformed-army-vs-uniformed-army warfare to modern total warfare. What I found in this book was the grandmother of the U-boat.