Stealth Boat

The mission of the US Navy's fast attack submarines during the Cold War was a closely guarded secret for many years, but this look back at the period and the part played by those submarines in winning the war gives readers a close-up view of life in one of those subs, USS Sturgeon. McHale's memoir covers the years from 1967 to 1970, when as a teenager he was assigned to the nuclear submarine.