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U-boats
With U-boats sinking dozens of ships each month, Hemingway, Bogart, and other citizens tried to help patrol American waters.
Editor's note: Timothy M. Gay is the Pulitzer-nominated author of two books on WWII. His first article on the U.S.
In 1942, over a quarter of a million ordinary citizens volunteered to help defend our country as Nazi submarines terrorized the East Coast and Caribbean waters, sinking fuel tankers and cargo ships with near impunity.
When the first African-Americans to crew a U.S. warship sailed into the war-tossed North Atlantic, they couldn't have known it would take 50 years to gain honor in their own country.
I sometimes felt like I was swimming against a very strong tide when doing research for my book on the men of the USS Mason. Very few people had ever heard of the first ship in the U.S. Navy manned by African-American sailors.
As Richard Snow rightly suggests in the subtitle to his compelling book, the Battle of the Atlantic was the longest and certainly one of the most consequential campaigns of the Second World War, if not in world history.
An extraordinary World War I naval operation is recounted by the commander of a decaying coastal steamer crammed with a terrifying new explosive
When my father, Rear Adm. D. Pratt Mannix 3rd, died in 1957, he had served as a midshipman on a square-rigger and lived to see the atomic bomb dropped on Japan.
THE LUSITANIA DISASTER: An Episode in Modern Warfare and Diplomacy
by Thomas A. Bailey and Paul B. Ryan The Free Press, 306 pp. $10.95
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