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Anti-submarine warfare Convoy Lend-lease operations (1941-1945) Lewrie, Alan (Fictitious character) Fiction Naval convoys Fiction United States History, Naval 20th century World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations Losses World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, GermanGeroux, William
Summary: "On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wars GerouxLambdin, Dewey.
Summary: The 13th title in Lambdin's popular series finds salacious Royal Navy captain Alan Lewrie in hot water for "liberating" a dozen slaves from their Caribbean plantation and putting them to work on his ship, the HMS Proteus. Facing the prospect of court martial and a civil trial, Lewrie reluctantly agrees when Zachariah Twigg of the Foreign Office suggests a scheme that might save his career:...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Griffin 2008
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC LAMMoses, Sam
Summary: Describes how two American Merchant Marines manned the guns of their crippled tanker to fight off Axis dive-bombers for two days as the sinking tanker was towed by destroyers to the island of Malta to prevent Rommel's North Africa advance.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2006
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.5421 MOSForester, C. S. (Cecil Scott)
Summary: "The mission of Commander George Krause of the United States Navy is to protect a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships making their way across the icy North Atlantic from America to England. There, they will deliver desperately needed supplies, but only if they can make it through the wolfpack of German submarines that awaits and outnumbers them in the perilous seas. For forty eight hours,...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Books 2018
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1 available in Adult Fiction, Call number: FIC FORKennedy, Paul M.
Summary: Analyzes previously unexplored strategic factors that contributed to the Allied victory in World War II, sharing assessments of ambitious goals successfully pursued by FDR, Churchill, and other attendees at the Casablanca Conference.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Random House 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.54 KENMorison, Samuel Eliot
Contents: Appendix I. Losses of merchant shipping -- Appendix II. Monthly sinkings of German and Italian submarines -- Appendix III. Arming of merchant vessels -- Appendix IV. Mine fields laid by U-boats in Western Atlantic, 1942 -- Appendix V. The support force Atlantic Fleet -- Appendix VI. The Atlantic Fleet of the United States Navy.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Little, Brown 1947