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Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic Hardcover - 2011

by Ed Offley


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The United States experienced its most harrowing military disaster of World War II not in 1941 at Pearl Harbor but in the period from 1942 to 1943, in Atlantic coastal waters from Newfoundland to the Caribbean. Sinking merchant ships with impunity, German U-boats threatened the lifeline between the United States and Britain, very nearly denying the Allies their springboard onto the European Continent--a loss that would have effectively cost the Allies the war.

In Turning the Tide, author Ed Offley tells the gripping story of how, during a twelve-week period in the spring of 1943, a handful of battle-hardened American, British, and Canadian sailors turned the tide in the Atlantic. Using extensive archival research and interviews with key survivors, Offley places the reader at the heart of the most decisive maritime battle of World War II.

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  • Title Turning the Tide: How a Small Band of Allied Sailors Defeated the U-Boats and Won the Battle of the Atlantic
  • Author Ed Offley
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition First Edition
  • Pages 478
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Basic Books (AZ), New York
  • Date 2011
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9780465013975 / 046501397X
  • Weight 1.65 lbs (0.75 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.27 x 6.55 x 1.58 in (23.55 x 16.64 x 4.01 cm)
  • Ages 18 to UP years
  • Grade levels 13 - UP
  • Library of Congress subjects World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations -, World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Atlantic
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010048097
  • Dewey Decimal Code 940.542

About the author

Ed Offley has been a military reporting specialist since 1981. He has worked for five separate newspapers and online publications. A graduate of the University of Virginia, Offley served in the U.S. Navy during Vietnam. He and his wife, Karen, live in Panama City Beach, Florida.
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