9780525428152 - The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-boats de Geroux, William (32 resultados)

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Condición: Good. [ No Hassle 30 Day Returns ][ Ships Daily ] [ Underlining/Highlighting: NONE ] [ Writing: NONE ] [ Edition: reprint ] Publisher: Viking Pub Date: 1/1/2016 Binding: hardcover Pages: 390 reprint edition.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good. s1 6¼"x9¼"; 309 pages; The binding and pages are clean, tight and square. There is no underlining, highlighting or margin notes. The dust-jacket is not price-clipped and has a clear polyester book jacket cover. It is a used copy with normal reading wear. Due to the weight of this book, it may require extra postage. If you order multiple titles, I will combine them in order to reduce postage costs. If you have any questions, contact me before ordering for details.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good.

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Hardcover. Condición: Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Good. 1st Edition. G/G, used, EX LIBRARY COPY, viii-ix, 390pp. Interior is clean except for a library stamp on the title page, no evidence of a card pocket. There is a library sticker on the ffep. Binding tight. Slight rubbing to dj, no chips or tears, dj enclosed in protective sleeve.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. 1st Printing.

hardcover. Condición: Fine copy in fine dust jacket. Illus. with photos Ilustrador. 1st. 8vo, 390 pp.

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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Very Good-. First Edition; First Printing. Very Good/Very Good- Condition. Dust jacket has been price clipped. No marks on the text block. No marks of previous ownership or inscription. First edition, first printing. ; B&W Photographs; 8vo 8" - 9" tall; 390 pages.

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Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Pages clean and unmarked; boards and spine unblemished; dust jacket is clean and uncreased. An inspiring chronicle of the merchant marine during World War Two.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition. Viking, 2016. Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: As New. 1st Edition. One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea -- a Y-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives through oil and debris. THE MATHEWS MEN tells the story of what it was like to be on those ships in an almost unknown epic sea battle that took place just off the coast of America. Its heroes were the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine, celebrated at long last in William Geroux's unforgettable new book. Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery. Its men had gone to sea for generations, but in 1942, Mathews mariners suddenly found themselves in the cross-hairs of a lethal fleet of U-boats bearing down across the Atlantic. The Germans were determined to sink every American merchant ship they could, to strangle the flow of fuel, arms, and supplies to the Allies. The U.S. Navy initially lacked the inclination and resources to protect the unarmed vessels, and the carnage was staggering. Ships were sometimes torpedoed before the eyes of tourists on American beaches. Nearly every family in tiny Mathews had a personal stake in the U-boat war, and none had a greater one than that of Captain Jesse and Henrietta Hodges and their seven sons. The Hodges family would experience the war in all its horrors and triumphs around the world, from the Gulf of Mexico to the Indian Ocean to the Arctic Circle. Drawing on interviews with the last living Mathews mariners, family records, diaries, letters, and official documents, Geroux describes how men survived torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys -- only to ship out again as soon as they'd returned to safety. Merchant mariners often died terrible deaths, and suffered a higher casualty rate than any branch of the U.S. military except the Marines -- but were denied veterans benefits for decades. This is a story of valor without glory, of the men who made sure no Allied invasion force was ever thrown back from a beachhead into the sea for want of supplies or weaponry. Merchant mariners landed at D-Day and delivered the crew of the Enola Gay to the Pacific, and when the war was over, it was the Merchant Marine ships that brought the troops home. Geroux evokes in vivid, human detail a war beyond the familiar battlefields and its toll on the families back home. Unrecognized by the government, unheralded in the history books, the achievements and sacrifices of the Merchant Marine have been largely ignored -- until now.

Hardcover. Condición: As New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: As New. 1st Edition.

hardcover. Condición: Good. Hardcover with dust jacket in good condition.

Hardcover. Condición: Used Like New. Used Like New hardcover in a New dust jacket. Publisher's overstock mark on the bottom of the text block. Pages are clean and free of marks or underlining. 8vo. (6.5 x 1.25 x 9.25 inches) Includes a bibliography, index, and photo plates. 400 pp. Fast shipping in a secure book box mailer with tracking. 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.

Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. 1st Edition. This is a Fine copy of the first edition (1st printing). In a Fine Dust Jacket. Illustrated. Index. Bibliography.

Hardcover. Condición: Used - very good.

Condición: Very Good.