Michael S. Sanders
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Michael S. Sanders, formerly a book editor and ghostwriter, lives up the road from the Bath Iron Works in Maine. This is his first book.
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From Here, You Can't See Paris: Seasons of a French Village and Its Restaurant (2002) 247 kappaletta
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My goal was to know more about shipbuilding in Bath - technical details, history, slice of life details. That's certainly in the book - but you'll also find that the book spends an incredible number of pages on Naval culture, shake-down cruises, the glory of sea battle, and the details of ship-board command structure. Out of eleven chapters, four were completely about the Navy, not Bath and BIW. Maybe that's the author's cost of getting access, like a sick montage of fighter jets and destroyers cutting through waves that producers include in movies in exchange for access to military equipment for filming. The narrative is crafted around the launch of one particular Navy ship with some side-trips down the memory of various interview subjects. I'm not sure this narrative device paid off - we really don't learn much about the Donald Cook's beyond it's made of steel, it has new weaponry, and it is a warship. Once it launches off the ways, we don't learn anything about it until it's ready for sea trials.
At the end the author states, "I have omitted large amounts of technical detail and sketched briefly where others may have lingered...to keep the narrative interesting." I don't think there was an issue with too much or too little lingering in the book, just a misstatement of the books subject. If it had been called "How the Navy Buys a Destroyer" I would be less disappointed (and I wouldn't have read the book). However, the chapters that deal with BIW are well worth a read and it would be neat if the author revisited the facility given they've moved away from using angled ways and have a couple new assembly buildings that have been operational for a while now.… (lisätietoja)