A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longerst Battle of World War II [SIGNED]

Snow, Richard

Verlag: Scribner , a division of Simon & Schuster, New York, 2010

Beschreibung

New condition white boards with a black spine and gold spine lettering, contained in a new condition non price-clipped photographic dust jacket. Includes Dedication; Bibliographical Note; Acknowledgments; Bibliography; Index and About the Author. Signed by the author with thick black Sharpie on a 'The Prologue Society' bookplate affixed to the blank first front endpaper with a bit of tape at the upper and lower bookplate sections; the bookplate rear covering can be removed in order to expose the bookplate glue and affix it to the volume if so desired. (see photographs) "Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him - what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign. In that global conflagration, only one battle - the struggle for the Atlantic - lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day. Hitler knew that victory depended on controlling the sea-lanes where American food and fuel and weapons flowed to the Allies. At the start, U-boats patrolled a few miles off the eastern seaboard, savagely attacking scores of defenseless passenger ships and merchant vessels while hastily converted American cabin cruisers and fishing boats vainly tried to stop them. Before long, though, the United States was ramping up what would be the greatest production of naval vessels the world had ever known. Then the battle became a thrilling cat-and-mouse game between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats. The historian Richard Snow captures all the drama of the merciless contest at every level, from the doomed sailors on an American freighter defying a German cruiser, to the amazing Allied attempts to break the German naval codes, to Winston Churchill pressing Franklin Roosevelt to join the war months before Pearl Harbor (and FDR's shrewd attempts to fight the battle alongside Britain while still appearing to keep out of it). Inspired by the collection of letters that his father sent his mother from the destroyer escort he served aboard, Snow brings to life the longest continuous battle in modern times. With its vibrant prose and fast-paced action, A Measureless Peril is an immensely satisfying account that belongs on the small shelf of the finest histories ever written about World War II." - from the inner front jacket flap. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Richard Snow was born in New York City in 1947 and graduated from Columbia College in 1970. He worked at American Heritage magazine for nearly four decades and was its editor-in-chief for seventeen years. He is the author of several books, among them two novels and a volume of poetry. Snow has served as a consultant for historical motion pictures and has written for documentaries, including the Burns brothers' series on the Civil War, and Rick Burne's PBS film Coney Island, whose screenplay he wrote. Snow lives in Manhattan with his wife, Carol, and children, Rebecca and William. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003781

Bibliografische Details

Titel: A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight ...

Verlag: Scribner , a division of Simon & Schuster, New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: New

Signiert: Signed by Author(s)