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“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping.'—Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the BoatFrom 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 effortMathews 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 re

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Author

William Geroux

Publisher

New York, New York: Penguin Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780698184725

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Memoir

Rating

3.8 / 5 (639 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13