Authors at Sea
Subtitle: Modern American Writers Remember Their Naval Service
Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
Published: November 1996
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 318
ISBN-13: 9781557507990
Subjects: European history: Second World War; Naval art and science; History: World; 20th Century American Literature; Naval Personnel; United States; Literature - Classics / Criticism; Europe; Literary collections; American - General; Military - Naval; Sea stories, American; 20th century; Authors, American; Biography; History, Naval
Description: Seven Pulitzer Prize winners and three Bancroft Prize winners are among the authors featured in this collection of works by eminent American writers who shared a common experience: service in the U.S. Navy or Coast Guard during World War II. Best-selling novelists, historians, science writers, and journalists, most of these authors are well known - Herman Wouk, James Michener, Alex Haley, C. Vann Woodward, Russell Baker, Edward L.

Beach, Carl Rowan, Ben Bradlee, Louis Auchincloss, and Samuel Eliot Morison, to name a few. But readers may not be aware of their wartime naval service.

. The authors write about duty on all kinds of ships - from carriers to submarines to LSTs - and service in all theaters and at all periods of the war, from beginning to end. They recount a variety of experiences: submarine attacks, kamikaze hits, storms, homesickness, nights on the town, leadership challenges, personality conflicts. Most wrote after years of reflection and decades spent developing writing skills.