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Geroux, William

Geroux, William

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“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping."
—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat
From the author of The Ghost Ships of Archangel, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942.
From the late 1930s to 1945, virtually all the fuel, food and munitions that sustained the Allies in Europe traveled not via the Navy but in merchant ships. After Pearl Harbor, those unprotected ships instantly became the U-boats’ prime targets. And they were easy targets—the Navy lacked the inclination or resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore.
As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety.

The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant mariners’ life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.” Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.

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Non Fiction

Non Fiction

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Wake County Public Libraries

Cary Regional
East Regional
Eva H. Perry Regional
Fuquay-Varina Community
Leesville Community
Morrisville Community
North Regional
Northeast Regional
Oberlin Regional
Southeast Regional

9780525428152

2016

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Penguin Publishing Group
Thorndike Press, a part of Gale, Cengage Learning
Viking

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Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction

Thorndike Press large print popular and narrative nonfiction|

Atlantic Coast (U.S.) -- History, Naval -- 20th century
Brothers -- Virginia -- Mathews -- Biography
Hodges family
Large type books
Mathews (Va.) -- Biography
Mathews (Va.) -- History, Naval -- 20th century
Merchant mariners -- United States -- Biography
Submarines (Ships) -- Germany -- History -- 20th century
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations -- Submarine
World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, German

The Mathews men : seven brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats

The Mathews Men Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats
The Mathews men : seven brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats / William Geroux
The Mathews men : seven brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats / by William Geroux

The Mathews men

seven brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats

Brothers
History
History, Naval
Hodges family
Large type books
Merchant mariners
Naval operations
Naval operations, German
Nonfiction
Submarine
Submarines (Ships)
World War, 1939-1945