Authors of We Were Pirates: A Torpedoman's Pacific War Featured at Navy Memorial

Robert Schultz and James Shell Will Discuss and Sign Their New Book Followed by a Q&A

Tuesday, October 13th, 2009, 12:00 NOON 
Free and open to the public

Robert Hunt managed to survive twelve consecutive war patrols on the submarine USS Tambor. During the course of the war, Hunt was everywhere that mattered in the Pacific. For “exceptional skill and proficiency at his battle station” Hunt received a commendation from Fleet Admiral Chester W. Nimitz.

To capture the progress of the Pacific War through Hunt’s eyes, coauthors Robert Schultz and James Shell examined the young submariner's war diary, as well as crew letters, photographs, and captains' reports, and they also conducted hours of interviews. Their vivid descriptions of the ways in which sailors dealt with the stress of war while at sea or on liberty show a side of the war that is rarely reported.

ROBERT SCHULTZ is the Fishwick Professor of English at Roanoke College in Virginia.

JAMES SHELL resides in Salem, Virginia and has had fiction, nonfiction, and poetry published in The Roanoke Times, Jazz, College Poetry Review, Single Living, Ideas at Work, Artemis, Raconteur, GlennGould, and the University of Toronto Quarterly. This is his first published full-length work.