Destroyermen: Three Minutes To War

by Richard Tennent

Tightly wrought and masterfully crafted, 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 ship is soon entangled in a developing military-political crisis of extraordinary scope. This begins a dangerous game masterminded by Khrushchev involving the major world powers. As the Dewey operates on high alert, the crew learns that a great price will be paid for the folly of man and nature.

454 pages, Paperback

First published October 31, 2008

Reviews

[Cynthia Tennent · Rating 5 out of 5]

This is an engaging book about a little known era in military history. It is set in the 1950's during the beginning of the cold war when the Suez Canal and the uprisings in Hungary stir up world politics. A young man from the midwest serves on a Destroyer that must navigate all the dangers of the mediterranean and more. Fun!