The Wreck of the Memphis Is fantastic !!! Beach's Father was the Captain of the USS Memphis (which was the battleship Texas before it was reclassified a cruiser and renamed) in 1916, when it was hit and driven to shore by a huge tidal wave. The book gives the reader an almost minute by minute account of this tragedy.
I highly, highly recommend it. It does not read like a dull history book but like a great action adenture ( and every word true. ( )