SEA, SURF AND HELL

An excellent anthology, subtitled U. S. Coast Guard Reader, with each piece a literary entity and individual experience, while collectively it mirrors the experiences of the nation's oldest sea force in four years of war and shows its versatility, its informality, its prit de corps. The section sub-titles indicate the scope:- Hell Below Zero (Greenland and Iceland); Shore Duty, Off Shore, Battle of the Atlantic, Storming the Benches (both European and Pacific); Sea Bag.