[Struggle is Our Brother is a] tense exciting story. This is war in its stark reality, no trace of the glamour that used to surround stories of battles…. Sincerity and lifelike characters make this a very real picture of the Cossacks, who have called out the admiration of the world. It is a gripping story, demonstrating the meaning of love of country.

Alice M. Jordan, "The Booklist: 'Struggle Is Our Brother'," in The Horn Book Magazine (copyrighted, 1943, by The Horn Book, Inc., Boston), Vol. XIX, No. 2, March, 1943, p. 104.

Three or four movies could be made, and probably have been, from the material in [Submarine Sailor], in which, on an eleven-week operational cruise, practically everything that can happen to a submarine in the Pacific does happen, along with a few things the reader might be excused for supposing improbable. The strenuous events, however, merely provide scope for demonstrating the...