The Steel Cocoon

Description for THE STEEL COCOON by Bentz Plagemann:

MEN WITHOUT WOMEN...

THE STEEL COCOON...naked, unsparing, day-by-day, moment-to-moment chronicle of Navy men at war. Not just the big moments of storm or battle, but the grueling, intimate, nerve-cinching adjustments of men trapped within the confines of a floating steel cocoon.

To them, girls were only a tormenting, oft-repeated dream, and death seemed only a matter of months or minutes. The fighting patriots of the AJAX tested out their courage, hopes and dreams in the relentless crucible of monotony and violence.

They were petty, brave, ridiculous and heroic. And never was man's humanity to man so desperately observed, so brutally imperiled.