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Author

Snow, Richard F.

Title A measureless peril : America in the fight for the Atlantic, the longest battle of World War II / Richard Snow.

Imprint

New York : Scribner, 2010.

Copies

Location	Call No.	OPAC Message	Status
Eureka Non-Fiction	940.5429 Sno	---	Available

Edition	1st Scribner hardcover ed.
Description	x, 353 p., [8] p. of plates : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography	Includes bibliographical references (p. [331]-338) and index.
Summary	In "A Measureless Peril," the historian Richard Snow captures all the drama of the merciless contest between the quickly built U.S. warships and the ever-more cunning and lethal U-boats that controlled the sea lanes of the Atlantic during WWII.
Subject	World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Atlantic Ocean.
	World War, 1939-1945 -- Naval operations, American.
	United States. Navy -- History -- World War, 1939-1945.
	Destroyer escorts -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
	Destroyer escorts -- Atlantic Ocean -- History -- 20th century.
	United States. Navy -- Biography.
	Sailors -- United States -- Biography.
ISBN	9781416591108 (hc.)
	1416591109 (hc.)