The Gun Club: U.S.S. Duncan at Cape Esperance

The U.S. Navys first planned battle of WWII is told through the extraordinary little-known story of USS DUNCAN the first Allied warship to penetrate a Japanese battle-line. From their first encounter with their celebrated captain and tyrannical executive officer to a deadly night afloat in shark-infested waters to a homecoming turned into a PR campaign The Gun Club is a vivid day-to-day account of life on a warship told largely in the words of the survivors and is one of the most detailed and compelling accounts of a war cruise ever written.