Review: Quite authentic and real
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 11, 2014
The writing style used by Peter Poland is not traditional. He was, as the title states, a teenage officer who found himself in the thick of the war in the Atlantic. He served on a variety of ships including battleships, landing craft, and destroyers. He includes his many letters home, but due to censorship they don't add much information and sometimes seem oddly placed in the narrative. Still, the book is a valuable resource for understanding the people of the war and the choices they had to make.