Undersea Warrior, Don Keith
Undersea Warrior, Don Keith
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Undersea Warrior
The World War II Story of "Mush" Morton and the USS Wahoo

Author: Don Keith

Narrator: David de Vries

Unabridged: 10 hr 37 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/27/2022

Synopsis

The remarkable true story of Dudley "Mush" Morton, the most admired—and feared—submarine commander of World War II

Mush Morton was a warrior without peer. At the helm of the USS Wahoo he completely changed the way the submarines fought in the Pacific War. He would relentlessly attack the Japanese at every opportunity, burning through his supply of torpedoes in record time on every patrol. Over the course of only nine months and five patrols, Morton racked up an astounding list of achievements, including being the first American skipper to wipe out an entire enemy convoy single-handedly.

Here, for the first time, is the life and legend of a heroic submarine commander who fought the war on his own terms, and changed the course of the undersea war in the Pacific.

About Don Keith

Don Keith is a native Alabamian and attended the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa, where he received his degree in broadcast and film with a double major in literature. He has won numerous awards from the Associated Press and United Press International for news writing and reporting. He is also the only person to be named Billboard magazine "Radio Personality of the Year" in two formats, country and contemporary. Keith was a broadcast personality for over twenty years and also owned his own consultancy, co-owned a Mobile, Alabama, radio station, and hosted and produced several nationally syndicated radio shows.

His first novel, The Forever Season was published in fall 1995 to commercial and critical success. It won the Alabama Library Association's "Fiction of the Year" award in 1997. His second novel, Wizard of the Wind, was based on Keith's years in radio. Keith next released a series of young adult/men's adventure novels cowritten with Kent Wright set in stock car racing, titled the Rolling Thunder Stock Car Racing series. Keith has also published several nonfiction historical works about World War II submarine history and coauthored The Ice Diaries with Captain William Anderson, the second skipper of USS Nautilus, the world's first nuclear submarine.

Mr. Keith lives with his wife, Charlene, in Indian Springs Village, Alabama.

Reviews

Goodreads review by alphonse p guardino on October 10, 2018

It's now October 10, 2018. I read this book back in August of 2015 (guess that was before I was really using GoodReads?) Here's the brief review I wrote on Amazon back then: "A very readable account of Mush Mortan and the USS Wahoo. The author did not at all attempt to sugar coat Captain Mortan's act......more

Goodreads review by Todd on December 21, 2011

Fairly comprehensive overview of the career of one the more famous United States' submarine "aces" from World War 2. The most interesting question the book left me with (and let me be clear, the author does not overtly advance this question) is this- Was Mush Morton's successes due more to his near f......more

Goodreads review by Robert M. Roth MD on October 01, 2020

Well Written Biography I found this to be a well written biography of a World War II submarine skipper who re-wrote the rules for submarine warfare in the early days of the Pacific war zone. Older and conservatively trained captains were pushed out in favor of more aggressive skippers. Mush Morton wa......more

Goodreads review by Richard on May 28, 2020

An excellent book; well-written, good documentation and sources, little to no speculation. The only concern I had with it is that it doesn't seem to know exactly what it is. It's not a biography of CMDR Morton, and it's not a history of the USS Wahoo. A wide variety of problems are brought up - but......more

Goodreads review by Jamesmn on December 04, 2011

Keith isn't enough of an historian for my taste. On the whole not a bad read, especially for those with a particular interest in WWII submarine warfare on the American side of things, and in Morton in particular. That said, the tone was a bit too casual and more playing to the audience, again those......more

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