"What the Captain Really Means is a great deal more than an ordinary war novel.  Its chief characters struggle in a world of tragedy not really of their making and a world of mystery that intensifies inexorably.  The answer may lie in the wonderful title phrase -- then again it may not.

   Ken Weber's novel captures the Vietnam years like no other work of fiction since James Webb's A Country Such as This.

   It is both a page-turner and a book that will be reread for its richness of insight and its lingering ambiguity.  In short, it deals with truth which is what the Captain really meant.  Maybe."

                              -Frederick Kiley,

                              Author of Honor Bound