Buy this book on-line GUGLIOTTA, BOBETTE: : Pigboat 39 - An American Sub Goes to WarUSA,LEXINGTON,KENTUCKY.University PRESS of KENTUCKY,1984. ISBN 0813115248.
US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.FINE/FINE.No owner inscrptn,and no price-clip to dw/dj. Bright,glossy,laminated b/w photographic upper wrap,publisher advert to rear wrap; with negligible shelf-wear and minimal creasing to edges - no nicks or tears
present - no bumping to edges or corners.
Miniscule creasing to head+foot of spine/
backstrip.Top+fore-edges bright and clean, contents bright,tight and near pristine. Bright,unblemished,publisher's red cloth boards with black ink stamped letters to spine/backstrip and b/w map illustrated endpapers.US,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,xiipp+2- 224pp [paginated] includes half-title+
title pages,contents+illustrations lists,preface,10 chapters,S-39 plan+ elevation diagram,b/w maps,24pp b/w contemporary photographs between pp130/31,
afterword,a bibliography and an index.
"Japan has started hostilities,govern yourselves accordingly." That message at 0330 on December 8,1941,found the submarine S-39 - a veteran of 16 years on the China station - anchored in the Philippine harbour of Masbate.
Pigboat 39 is the gripping story of this venerable submarine and the courage,skill, and suffering of her officers and men. Working together in the tight and perilous confines of the old sub,fighting with her primitive equipment,they manage to sink two enemy ships,then to elude the onrushing Japanese and slip through the Sunda Strait to a temporary haven in Australia,before sailing to further action in the Soloman Islands.But Pigboat 39 is more than a tale of war at sea.From navy records and from the letters,journals,and still-lively memories of the S-39's men and their wives and sweethearts,Bobette Gugliotta has woven a remarkable portrayal of American service life before and during WWII: of the social life of officer's families in the vanished world of prewar Manila; of teenage sailors and their girlfriends on movie dates in Oakland on the eve of the war; of the peace-time Asiatic Fleet and its dependent families moving north to the cool of Tsingtao in summer; of sailors on brief and raucous liberty in Asiatic ports; of reluctant wives evacuated with their children aboard a jammed transport as war approaches; of the men and women who survived the dangers,privation,and boredom of the
Pacific war. "There are no heroes in Pigboat 39," Gugliotta writes,"unless everyone is."
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