Bitter Ocean The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945

Name: Bitter Ocean The Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1945
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ISBN: 9780743229302

ISBN-10: 0743229304

ISBN-13: 9780743229302

Edition: 2007

Authors: David Fairbank White

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Between 1939 and 1945, more than 36,000 Allied sailors and navy airmen and 36,000 merchant seamen lost their lives in perhaps the least-known major battle of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic. All the tanks, planes, bombs, and other vital supplies that the U.S. used to fight in Europe -- as well as the American troops themselves -- crossed the Atlantic aboard ship, a journey made perilous by the German U-boats that prowled the seas. InBitter Oceanauthor and maritime journalist David Fairbank White gives us a masterful, authoritative account of how these American, Canadian, and British air and sea forces fought the Germans and prevailed -- at a terrible cost. As dreadful as the loss…

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List price: $22.99
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Publication date: 5/15/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 368
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.20" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.078

David Fairbank White has been a reporter for The New York Times and The Journal of Commerce, where he worked on the maritime desk. He is the author of the novel True Bearing. He lives with his family in New York City.