Unrestricted Warfare / James F. DeRose / American submarines World War II / SubmarineBooks.com

"Unrestricted Warfare" reveals the dramatic story of the harsh baptism by fire faced by U.S. submarine commanders in World War II. The first skippers went to battle hamstrung by conservative peacetime training and plagued by defective torpedoes. Drawing extensively from now declassified files, Japanese archives, and the testimony of surviving veterans, James DeRose has written a fascinating account of the men and vessels responsible for the only successful submarine campaign of the war. They clearly charted a new course to victory in the Pacific.

IBM-exec-turned-historian James DeRose focuses on officers associated with the legendary USS Wahoo (SS-238). Headed by Dudley "Mush" Morton and his executive officer, Richard "Dick" O'Kane, they included George Grider, author of the classic War Fish, and Roger Paine, DeRose's principal informant. Numbering about a dozen in all, they did more than their share to establish the aggressive submarine tactics used in the war against Japan. Some of the material DeRose presents will be familiar to all but naval-history novices, but by drawing on oral history and untapped Japanese sources, DeRose adds considerably to readily available knowledge on his subject. For example, DeRose discloses that most of the men in the water attacked by Wahoo during a controversial episode of Morton's career were Indian POWs being shipped to New Guinea as slave laborers. DeRose also provides a balanced account of the small-group politics of submarine command and a harrowing last hours of the men trapped aboard USS Tang (SS-306), which was sunk by one of her own circle-run torpedoes.

This new Hardback book has a full-color dust jacket. 310 pages, 21 historic black and white photographs, 1 maps, 4 diagrams, an 11 page appendix and index.

New Book --- $24.95

How a New Breed of Officers Led the Submarine Force to Victory in World War II

by James F. DeRose

Foreword by Rear Admiral Roger W. Paine, Jr., USN (Ret.)

New Hardback edition

310 pages, 21 black and white photographs, 5 maps

New $24.95

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Note: Photos below appear in the book.

Above photo: Lieutenant 'Dick' O'Kane (left) with Commander 'Mush' Morton on the bridge of Wahoo.

Above photo: May 1944: Commander O'Kane (middle of photo) stands with 22 rescued airmen aboard USS Tang.

"James DeRose has done an excellent job surprisingly so, in view of his lack of true World War II submarine experience. He obviously contacted everyone he could find who served on one of the three boats he concentrated on, and he read, as well, everything he could find that was written about them... DeRose shines by his interpretation of events as the Japanese must have seen them... His reconstruction of how Wahoo came to her end may well be pretty close to correct... He does the same with Tang." Captain Edward L. Beach, USN (Ret.). Author of "Submarine!" and "Run Silent, Run Deep."

"I knew all of the book s main characters quite well... I am also completely familiar with submarine operations in the Pacific. With that background I couldn't fail to thoroughly enjoy DeRose's book. It is well written and has the right feel." Rear Admiral Chester W. Nimitz Jr., USN (Ret.)

"Sail with American submariners into tightly guarded Japanese home waters; undergo the horror of a depth charge attack; experience the thrill of victory with some of the U.S. Navy s ace submarine skippers. All this and much more is contained in James F. DeRose s compelling "Unrestricted Warfare." No one interested in the naval side of World War II should be without it." Nathan Miller, Author of "War at Sea: A Naval History of World War II."