War Under the Pacific

This is another volume from Time-Life Books series on World War 2. Like the others in the series, it is very well written and lavishly illustrated with photos and diagrams, often from Time-Life's own archives.It tells the story of the undersea war in the Pacific, through both the stories of individual submarines and their captains and crews, and by recounting overall strategies to defeat the Japanese, in which the subs played a large role.It also talks in depth about the unpreparedness of the ships and crews for combat at the beginning of the war, due to peacetime constrictions and lack of money for training and equipment,which plaqued all of America's armed forces in that period. A "must have" for naval and World War 2 buffs, it lives up to Time-Life's usual high standards.

This book is a great read with hundreds of great photos and stories from the war. There is even a good overview of the history of submarines.