1951 was the year(10th grade!) I fell in love with European history. Accordingly this fictional account of an important turn in American naval history let me down.

From Grey's unlikely awareness of other contemporary German composers, to uses of words like (Coachee) to Grey's casting aside his pal, O"Bannon, to the misshapen sentence, (p.152) "There's a fleet of ships that will deliver an enormous sum of treasure assembling here at the Plate, to Spain, before the end of the year", I was disappointed; especially as I had just finished reading great historical fiction by Ken Follett.