4.38 avg rating — 27,862 ratings

"A damn good human interest story, a book that held my interest from the first page, right up through the last page."

4.20 avg rating — 3,258 ratings

"A look at war that illustrates the the suffering and loss of man's humanity."

4.17 avg rating — 1,023 ratings

"Even the "bad" guys can be good, and have a human and caring side."

4.36 avg rating — 11,690 ratings

"No way, absolutely no way, should this small force of US Navy destroyers and jeep carriers hold off, and force a superior Japanese Naval Fleet consisting of battleships, cruisers, and accompanying destroyers. Absolutely the Navy's Finest Hour, more so than Midway."

4.37 avg rating — 1,235 ratings

"We were lucky that Japan only had one naval officer of this man's caliber, if they had more, or a few in the higher chain of command, we would have been in very deep trouble in the Pacific. Captain Hara was Japan's answer to our "Last Stand of the Tin Can Sailors"."