Review: Great read!!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 08 5, 2013
I've read most of the reviews, even commented on a few, and have to say I think some of the reviewers are nitpickers who need to stop reading fiction and go back to non-fiction. This book started with a bang, literally, and shot forward from there. All the criticism aside I'd like to suggest that you nitpickers get over it.During WWII they could build a ship in ten weeks. Even after an EMP I think we have the technology today to refurbish mothballed ships in three months.Everything and everyone in this book was bigger than life. The president was the perfect president at the right time and don't forget he got rid of the politically motivated military officers so the remaining officers had to be good. OK, they were better than good and better than life, but they were perfect characters for a fiction war novel. The people were bigger than life, the equipment was better than life, and the accuracy and combat effectiveness was better than life. Excellent! I don't read books like this to read about the US losing.I'm a 22+ year Navy 'Tin-Can' sailor. I've been on a ship doing Naval Gun Fire Support (NGFS) for ground troops off South Vietnam, done NGFS up rivers in Vietnam, and got into a shooting battle or two with NVA short batteries off North Vietnam. I could feel the combat in this book and appreciate the way the author put it all together.Bottom line is that this was a fun fictional war novel and I enjoyed reading it. As a 22+ year veteran of the US Navy and an Enlisted Surface Warfare Specialist, I for one enjoyed the book.