Gone to Sea in a Bucket by David Black - Harry Gilmour signs up for the English Navy at the beginning of WWII. He finds the class division on board disheartening and after an unpleasant incident transfers to begin training for submarine duty. Here he finds the common purpose more to his liking. There are secret missions, drunken commanders, and escapes from sinking submarines. The action parts are quite good but I found the book way too detailed in the actual operating of the submarine. Most readers on Goodreads disagree with me.
3 stars
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Black Mad Wheel by Josh Malerman - The Danes, a group of musicians from Detroit are asked by the government to find the location of a strange sound that drives men mad and can make weapons useless. Why them? Because they are musicians and were in the service during WWII. They travel to a desert in Africa and of course, things go downhill from there. This is all told in very short spurts as a man wakes up from a six month coma with every bone in his body broken. So we go back and forth in time getting little bits of information. The what is going on is very compelling. The end is ????? I had very high hopes for this book, I gave his first book, The Bird Box, 5 stars. I still don't know what the sound was.
1 star
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