Reviews for Undaunted: The Story of a United States Navy Tug and Her Crew in World War II

The average rating for Undaunted: The Story of a United States Navy Tug and Her Crew in World War II based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2019-05-05 00:00:00 Lincoln Hannah This short book of remembrances from the authors childhood in West Texas will leave you smiling, thinking how sweet, or saying "true". The teacher in me loves that he even included a story of how he learned to read and thanking his teacher for "unlocking all the written words in the world" and for a ". . . lifetime of being able to read, one of the greatest gifts one can enjoy." I loved the beautiful sentences in this book. For example: "His face was smooth and he smiled like it came directly from his heart. His eyes twinkled and he made me feel like I was somebody. I loved him from the moment I saw him and all the rest of my life." Others stories made me laugh like how finding out about guardian angels made him fearless. Well he didn't want them to be bored! Other stories are universal and timeless. "A group of men sitting around and a subject comes up - These things are not announced. They just creep into the general discussion and sort of take over, and one by one each man tells his favorite story on the subject." And a kid can learn a lot by just sitting quietly. This book is filled with life lessons we should all remember like neighbors help neighbors, do a good job, and look at the stars and take time to wonder.

Review # 2 was written on 2017-05-01 00:00:00 Hiroshi Kawabata Is it just me or do we mostly hear about lower class during war? This book gave us a glimpse of what life was like for rich politicians (or at their wives). This is a diary. It can be rather boring at times because a lot of it reads like this "I had dinner with ____ and __ and ___ and ___. We discussed the secession of this state and then talked about something else." But isn't this what people write in their diaries? I guess I expected to read more about the actual war, but it seemed the war didn't affect her as much as it did others. This is probably because she was wealthy and her husband held some position in the government, so rather than discuss the battles she mostly discusses the politics of war. But it was still interesting to read about the war from this point of view. I think anyone intersted in the Civil War would find this interesting.