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    Ghosts of Bungo Suido
    Ghosts of Bungo Suido
    Ghosts of Bungo Suido
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    Ghosts of Bungo Suido

    Written by P. T. Deutermann

    Narrated by Dick Hill

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    A thrilling World War II adventure that moves from a daring submarine to a notorious Japanese prison camp and ends in a dramatic military court, by the Boyd Award-winning author of Pacific Glory

    In late 1944, America’s recapture of the Philippines is jeopardized by what seems an insurmountable threat from Japan: immense Yamato-class battleships, which dwarf every other ship at sea. Built in total secrecy, these 76,000-ton warships seem invincible. American military intelligence knows of two such ships, but there are rumors of a third, built not as a battleship but as an aircraft carrier. Now ready to go operational from Japan’s heavily defended and mined Inland Sea, a carrier of that size could disrupt the entire invasion effort. American bombers can’t reach the Inland Sea, so the Navy high command decides to send a submarine on a special mission to kill the carrier...assuming that it even exists. No American submarine has ever been able to penetrate the Inland Sea; five boats and their crews have perished in or around the main entrance strait, known as Bungo Suido. Lieutenant Commander Gar Hammond - an aggressive, ship-killing captain with a reckless streak - is now skipper of the Dragonfish, a new submarine. When Admiral Nimitz decides to try one more time, Hammond becomes the navy’s only hope to locate and stop the Japanese super-ship before it escapes into the open Pacific. P. T. Deutermann’s previous World War II adventure, Pacific Glory, won acclaim from listeners and reviewers, and was honored with the W. Y. Boyd Literary Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, administered by the American Library Association. In Ghosts of Bungo Suido, Deutermann presents another sweeping, action-filled World War II novel, based on a true event from the Pacific theater.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBrilliance Audio
    Release dateJul 30, 2013
    ISBN9781480507289
    Ghosts of Bungo Suido
    Author

    P. T. Deutermann

    P.T. DEUTERMANN is the noted author of many previous novels based on his experiences as a senior staff officer in Washington and at sea as a Navy Captain, and later, Commodore. His WWII works include The Last Paladin and Pacific Glory, both of which won the W.Y. Boyd Award for Excellence in Military Fiction, Iwo, 26 Charlie, The Hooligans, The Nugget, Sentinels of Fire, The Commodore, Trial By Fire, and The Iceman. He lives with his wife of 56 years in North Carolina.

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    • 5/5
      This book was a pleasant surprise. It was almost like three books: submarine warfare, Japanese POW, and military legal matters plus Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. Gar Hammond wsa a great character and sub captain. I'm looking for other books by this author.
    • 5/5
      Full of action and adventure! Plus a bit of romance!
    • 3/5
      I don't know if a submariner can "jump the shark" but this very improbable story came close to it. This could have been another one of Deutermann's excellent historical fictions, but for me it was not. Other readers liked this much more than me so ymmv.
    • 4/5
      Warning - contains spoilers - Kind of a strange book. Starts of with a story of a sub trying to breach the Japanese inland sea where 'the ghosts of bungo suido' lie. 1/3 into the book (i) Gar Hammond, the CO having been left behind when his sub went into emergy dive, (ii) survived the sinking of a torpedoed Japanese aircraft carrier, (iii) got through interogation by the Kempetai (iv) survived 8 months of captivity and (v) witnessing both the Hiroshima and Nagasaki atom bombings is charged with collaboration based on the say so of an USAF major. The latter who apparently was either not interogated in the same way as Gar Hammond was or if he was must have seen many a fellow POW die as he only told his interrogators 'name, rank and serial number'. Nevertheless I give it three and a half stars mainly because the very well written action scenes and the depiction of Japanese POW life but most of all the eyes on witnessing of the Hiroshima bombing and its after effects.
    • 4/5
      The is my third Deutermann, and as with the earlier works i've read, Deutermann knows how to describe action at sea in the navy of the twentieth century better than any other.The Sub service is highlighted in this tale and we see the world through the eyes of a tip notch skipper who provides us an insight into what it takes to keep everything in the 'bubble.'Where Deutermann has issue is his treatment of women. They are cardboard characters, all the same, though talking dames, broads, babes, always beautiful, ice queens to everyone but the hero that is destined to have them. The hero whose one line pickups, terribly and horribly macho, always work with these women who would not let anyone else touch them if they used the same line. Which makes the naval story work so well, and the romance detract from it all.We don't read these stories for the romance, and since that doesn't work, it would serve us so much better if we had more plot and twists without these dames in the tale. Still, the action and combat are described so well that the story is very much worth reading. One star lost for the cardboard love interest we have seen before. If WWII naval action is your thing, this is worthwhile.
    • 3/5
      A submarine ace is ordered to take his submarine into Japan's Inland Sea to sink an aircraft carrier and drop off a Japanese POW on a secret mission. 1st half of the book includes some very good naval action. It sort of bogs down in the second half, IMO.
    • 2/5
      Ghosts of Bungo SuidoBy P. T. DeutermannPublisher: St. Martin’s PressPublished In: New York City, NY, USADate: 2013Pgs: 343Summary:Imagine in the days after the recapture of the Phillippines in World War 2, if Japan had fielded a Yamato class aircraft carrier, a rumored sister ship to the battleship Yamato laid on a similar keel. It rests in Japan’s Inland Sea outside of the reach of bombers. Five submarines have attempted to force the straits of the Inland Sea. When word of this super carrier reaches the brass at Pearl, Lt Commander Gar Hammond finds himself tasked with forcing the strait and damaging that carrier.Genre:fiction, world war 2, militaria, submarine warfareWhy this book:Cover image of an American submarine attacking a Japanese aircraft carrier.This Story is About:courage, duty, honor, pettiness, and resentment. The world changing around you.Favorite Character:Gar Hammond is a good character. He’s a little bit too much, but I bet a lot of those guys in those situations with that kind of responsibility thrust upon them would react similarly.Least Favorite Character: Captain Forrester. That bug up his ass in this book is bad and his being an asshole shows through.Character I Most Identified With:Gar, obviously.The Feel:You don’t get that close, claustrophobic feel that comes with many submarine stories. It flows great. Lots of action. Wish it had more of the close submarine feel to it. I like submarine warfare to seem like a knife fight in the dark while wearing a blindfold.Favorite Scene:The attack on the Japanese Navy dock at Kure.Settings:Hawaii, the bridge of the Dragonfish, the ocean, the Inland Sea of Japan, the deck of a Japanese war secret, Kempetai custodyPacing:The pacing is great. Not breakneck, but great. It does fall off a bit as we get into the later half/quarter of the book. The book steps down again when it returns to Hawaii in the denouement.Plot Holes/Out of Character:The Gar vs Gar thing in the middle of the book.Last Page Sound:It’s a horrible thought, but this book may have been better if the hero had died either when he went into the water in the Inland Sea or if he would have died during one of those POW experiences. The book lost something when we left the Dragonfish behind.Author Assessment:I would definitely look at other stuff by P. T. Deutermann.Editorial Assessment:I’m sure there is a “message” in the second half of the book which we spend in Japan. But the second half of the book doesn’t stand up to the first half.Disposition of Book:Irving Public LibraryWhy isn’t there a screenplay?Could be a good movie. Leave out the courtroom stuff that drags down the ending and goes anti-climax to a large extent and compress the POW stuff into an afterclimax, during the credits, what happened later...maybe.Casting call:Gar Hammond could be played by George Clooney...though I guess he is getting a little old for this role. Maybe Matt Damon. Would recommend to:genre fans
    • 5/5
      Absolutely RIVETING!! Have read every book Captain Deutermann has written, and none of them were bad. If you want a book to keep you glued all day/night to the point that your eyes are burning and running water, this is the one to read.