Tightly wrought and masterfully crafted, Destroyermen: Three Minutes To War by Richard Tennent is an explosive and highly charged historic novel set in the Cold War. On the USS George Dewey, a navy destroyer, the hand of fate tosses the crew from a dangerous assignment in the Middle East to a grueling mission at sea. No word from the free world will prepare the crew when they are sent on a mission with an objective to slow the construction of the Aswan Dam, a project underwritten by Nikita Khrushchev of the Soviet Union. After the two ship's officers assigned the task narrowly escape, the...

In DESTROYERMEN: KOREAN HANGFIRE, author Richard Tennent introduces two newly commissioned Ensigns to the facts of life on a navy warship engaged in intensive battle-action along the coast of Korea. In dramatic action within a plot of developing characters, the two Ensigns quickly lose their boyhood to onboard personality clashes and character hardening battles for survival.

In April of 1953, the Korean War was in a stalemate along a battle line generally described as the 38th Parallel. Yet deadly battles continued without let-up: the Communists attacking to conquer more land to enhance...