{"id":15216,"date":"2025-05-30T14:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=15216"},"modified":"2025-05-30T14:58:13","modified_gmt":"2025-05-30T19:58:13","slug":"audio-book-40-is-now-available-sub-tales-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/?p=15216","title":{"rendered":"Audio Book #40 Is Now Available: Sub Tales 4"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

SUB TALES 4<\/a> by Charles Hood<\/a> and Frank Hood<\/a><\/p>\n

I am honored to have narrated all 4 of the Sub Tales books to date, and hope to knock out Sub Tales 5 before February 2026. (Full schedule, a true blessing!) These are great books, and I\u2019ve been on some of the subs in the book for \u201croad trips\u201d to different places we won\u2019t talk about. It allows me to be very authentic about narrating the work, as I can literally smell what they\u2019re talking about and see it before my eyes in most cases.<\/span><\/p>\n

Sub Tales 4 <\/span><\/a>is the latest offering by brothers Charles and Frank Hood in their prolific output of nonfiction books about the US Submarine Force. Like the three volumes preceding it in the series, Sub Tales 4 <\/span>offers a detailed recounting of some of the most pivotal and poignant moments in the rich history of the Silent Service. Arranged as an anthology of individual short stories, the book covers many subjects with prose, photographs, maps, schematics, and other illustrations to complement the narrative.

Written over the last year, Sub Tales<\/span> 4 <\/span>benefits editorially from the knowledgeable input of three submarine veterans\u2014Keith Weitemeyer, John Donaldson, and Greg Scott\u2014who painstakingly reviewed all chapters and offered valuable feedback during the composition process. Many story ideas were supplied by followers of the authors\u2019 Facebook group, \u201cPoopie Suits & Cowboy Boots\u201d, and many vexing questions about some vital piece of esoterica were often posed and answered very quickly using that format. Our books incorporate that \u201cwiki\u201d approach to yield both accurate and engrossing stories that are certain to inform you more deeply.

Specific topics addressed in Sub Tales 4 <\/span>include the inspiring life story of Charles Lockwood, a key figure in US submarine success during World War II; the serendipitous role of the USS Nautilus <\/span>during the Battle of Midway; the submarine that carried gold and silver to safety during World War II; Richard Nixon\u2019s relationship with Hyman Rickover, and their memorable overnight cruise aboard the USS Cincinnati<\/span>; the mysterious and remote lake in Idaho where the Navy performs some of its most robust acoustic research; the story of the deep-diving USS Dolphin<\/span>; the nuts and bolts of the submarine maneuvering watch; Ronald Reagan\u2019s screen turn as a submarine captain; and many more.<\/p>\n

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SUB TALES 4 by Charles Hood and Frank Hood I am honored to have narrated all 4 of the Sub Tales books to date, and hope to knock out Sub Tales 5 before February 2026. (Full schedule, a true blessing!) These are great books, …<\/span> Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5029,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio-book","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15216"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15217,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15216\/revisions\/15217"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commotioninthepews.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}