Hot Straight and Normal

About the Book

Hot Straight and Normal is a submarine bibliography with over 6000 references to books, videos, articles and Internet sources. It is designed to assist reseachers, historians, students, teachers, collectors and others with an interest in submarines, their history, construction and use in wars worldwide. It's unique format of listing the books by title, will assists the researcher and casual reader alike in finding or searching for familiar words and subjects. Fiction book titles are also included. Each listing contains title, author, date published, publisher, page count, ISBN number and other informative descriptions if known. This is the only submarine bibliography currently in publication. The article index includes all articles in all issues of Naval Submarine League’s Submarine Review and Naval Institute’s Naval Proceedings magazine. There are Web sites and other Internet sources listed and even information on obtaining more information through the Freedom of Information Act. Also included is how to find materials inside government archives.

Collected and edited by a former U.S. submariner and member of U.S. Submarine Veterans Inc.

About the Author

Served in U.S. Navy in 1960 through 1968 and was a trained electrical nuclear power plant operator and served on USS Catfish SS-339 and USS Patrick Henry SSBN 599. Website on submarines is at: www.rontini.com and email to: rontini@vcn.com. Currently retired in Sheridan, Wyoming.