James R. Driscoll

It was OK, but the subject of two young men who join the submariners in WWI just wasn't my thing. I usually enjoy popular culture from the past, but this one didn't do it for me even though it was well written. I guess I'm just sick of war and the glorification of it kind of repulses me.

I haven't read this book, but while I was scanning in the book cover, I noticed the two figures along the bottom border. They look a lot like a swastika. Recall that this book was published in 1920, before the Nazis took over Germany and caused so much trouble in the world. There are swastikas all over books by Rudyard Kipling, from the covers to the illustrations. Curious....I shall have to read this book. Later.

The world was at war; his beloved country was mixed up in this contest, hopefully for the right and as humanely as it is possible to be when fighting. It required soldiers to fight and men and more men and still more men out of which to make these soldiers which were to win in a glorious cause for liberty and honor.
And so, because of the position of his office and the considerable number of students coming to him there, he may have been a little less careful about sticking to the precise show more regulations concerning very young applicants. The captain had a weakness for[Pg 24] youngsters, being something of an overgrown boy himself at times, and this may have had much to do with his leniency.
The upshot of it was that, a little while later, after some information had been exchanged, questions had been asked mostly on the part of the captain, and oaths had been taken, the military gentleman dismissed the two young fellows with this parting injunction: show less