| Details | | Publication Date: | 1992-12-01 |
Publisher's Note A "Tin Can" is what Navy men call a destroyer. This book is source material with charm; it's history with a twinkle. From the mind-numbing boredom of the pre-WWII Navy to the high drama of the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor, you will be there. You will see the Arizona blow up & feel the explosion under your feet in the company of the men who were there & were fighting back before the country knew it was at war. This book speeds up here to keep up with events, slows down there to admire the scenery, & turns an odd corner now & then to take a quirky look at human nature, especially civilian human nature exposed to the official majesty of the United States Navy. The eyes & mind behind this book are like no others & you don't want to miss it. A lot of careful research has gone into "The Square Peg". Everything that is said to have happened, did happen, just as described, but this is no dull rote recital. The viewpoint is fresh, intelligent, irreverent, & unblinkingly honest. Jesse Pond is a fighter & a survivor & when you were a square peg in a round Navy, & moored at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, that turned out to be a good way to go. The Japanese never really had a chance, & after reading this book, all of you, from grandparents to the youngest readers, will know why.
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