The Corvette Navy by Lamb, James B - 1977

Signet Books, 1979. Mass Market Paperback. Acceptable. Disclaimer:A readable copy. All pages are intact, and the cover is intact. Pages can include considerable notes-in pen or highlighter-but the notes cannot obscure the text. At ThriftBooks, our motto is: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed.

Toronto, Ontario, Canada.: Signet Book - NAL / New American Library, 1979. Book. Illus. by Painted Cover Art. Fine. Soft cover. Fourth Edition By Publisher.. 180 pgs. "(Tells) the dramatic story of Canada's forgotten war - the North Atlantic war against the German U-boats. In those days, Britain stood alone, relying desperately upon the vital supplies brought by convoy across the great, grey wastes of the North Atlantic. There the pride of Hitler's navy, the U-boat wolf-packs, waited to pick off the slow, unarmed convoys. What stood between the U-boats and their prey were the corvettes: small, battered, under-equipped, and in need of repair. They were manned, not by naval professionals, but by a group of skilled and dedicated amateurs - farm boys off the prairies, Toronto taxi drivers, bricklayers from Quebec, and a smattering of merchant seamen. Many of them were still in their teens; their officers, including 'The Old Man', were often in their mid-twenties. Yet this little band… Read More