Dan Barnett teaches philosophy at Butte College. Send review requests to [email protected]. Columns archived at ...
In an era of hypersonic missiles, stealth fighters, and nuclear subs, it’s hard to picture sailors going toe-to-toe with the enemy on a ship’s deck. Yet during World War II, the crew of a brand-new ...
August 1942. The Caribbean night explodes with depth charges as the Canadian corvette HMCS Oakville rams a German U-boat already crippled by U.S. bombers. Engines dead, Oakville drifts beside her prey ...
October 1939. In Britain’s supposedly impregnable naval base of Scapa Flow, the battleship HMS Royal Oak lay at anchor. Under ...