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Stealth Boat By Gannon McHale 2008, Naval Institute Press, $ 24.95 ISBN # 978-1-59114-502-8
Reviewed by Andrew Lubin For too many years, the activities of the American submarine fleet during the Cold War have been classified, and only recently have their exploits begun to be publicized. Author Gannon McHale was one of those submariners. An enlisted man on board the USS Sturgeon, his book “Stealth Boat” is his memoir of his time in the Navy. Writing on the camaraderie of his fellow sailors as well as the missions they performed, McHale does an excellent job combining the human face – and humor – of his crewmen with the highly technical and extremely dangerous missions chasing Soviet nuclear boats in late 1960’s. McHale is a good writer with a fine eye for details. “Stealth boat” is far more than a dry re-cap of those forty year-old missions; it helps the reader get to know those young sailors who performed those missions with a professionalism and spirit that helped hound the Soviet Navy back to the relative safety of its ports.
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