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The Mathews men, seven brothers and the war against Hitler's u-boats, William Geroux

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The Mathews men, seven brothers and the war against Hitler's u-boats, William Geroux

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eng

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contains biographical information

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index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

The Mathews men

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bibliography

Responsibility statement

William Geroux

Sub title

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

Summary

Mathews County, Virginia, is a bleak strip of land along the Chesapeake with almost nothing to offer? but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbours), all of them merchant marines, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the first fleet of U-Boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942

Table Of Contents

Machine generated contents note: ch. One Born to the Water -- ch. Two The Devil's Shovel -- ch. Three Missing -- ch. Four Professional Survivors -- ch. Five "Off Hatteras the Tankers Sink" -- ch. Six Killing Ground to Battleground -- ch. Seven "Avoid Polar Bear Liver" -- ch. Eight Catastrophe -- ch. Nine "Please Don't Tell Me" -- ch. Ten Counterattack -- ch. Eleven The Conveyor Belt -- ch. Twelve War's End -- ch. Thirteen Legacy

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