Dust on the Sea

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Steven Kroll — friend, confidant, editor, and an author himself, who helped form this story.

Patricia Doolittle — with astonishing patience she copied all the pages many times over.

Tia Cronin — who helped by critically reading and commenting on an early version of this manuscript.

Edward Beach — my son, who read and criticized the manuscript and in the process inserted much of his own philosophic, poetic nature.

Hugh Beach — my other son, who also carefully went over every word and made many thoughtful comments in the knowledgeable way I have come to value so.

Ingrid — my daughter, known as Ping, whose happy spirit and joie de vivre meant so much during the difficult days of composition.

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Martin Clancy, Bill Hatch, and Bruce Barr, the three tenders of the boiler room, to whose encouragement, thoughtful suggestions, and tactful criticism I owe such a great deal.

As with Run Silent, Run Deep, which it follows, this is entirely a work of fiction. I have striven to portray what submarining was like during the war years, and have held closely to the idea that not only should all the action and motivation be plausible, but also that the reader should receive an accurate description of the instrument in which the work was done: the U.S. submarine. Sometimes I have thought of Eel herself as the heroine of this story, but a valid case for this might be hard to make. Nevertheless, the reader will know more about how to operate a submarine of World War II after he finishes this book than he knew before.

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