SINK 'EM ALL (416 pp.)Vice'Admiral Charles A. LockwoodDutton ($5).
BATTLE SUBMERGED (244 pp.) Rear Admiral Harley Cope & Cap fain Walter KarigNorton ($3.75).
Before World War II, the biggest noise a U.S. submarine could make was by sinking unintentionally. In the Navy itself, the "Silent Service," never pitted against a maritime power, was a freakish stepchild with neither battle experience nor fighting tradition.* A pampered stepchild, foreign submariners thought: the big air-conditioned subs were "luxury liners"; ice cream and hot showers would turn the crew into "softies." But U.S. subs had been...