I purchased this as a gift for a WWII submariner who states he greatly enjoyed it (and some of the others I've purchased in the past he has not praised this highly.)

Some of the stories were those he already knew from attending the yearly subvet conventions. And (restating it simply and briefly) he states that though he'd already heard many of the stories from the mouths of the very men who wrote them, it was still great having it in print.

There are many individual stories from mostly officers but a few others thrown in for good measure. All are interesting and most importantly, well edited for readability without any obvious change of meaning.