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The Mathews Men

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Author : William Geroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2016-04-19

The Mathews Men written by William Geroux and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-04-19 with History categories.

“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." —Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat From 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 effort Mathews 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 resources to defend them until the beginning of 1943. Hitler was determined that his U-boats should sink every American ship they could find, sometimes within sight of tourist beaches, and to kill as many mariners as possible, in order to frighten their shipmates into staying ashore. As the war progressed, men from Mathews sailed the North and South Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Gulf of Mexico, the Mediterranean, the Indian Ocean, and even the icy Barents Sea in the Arctic Circle, where they braved the dreaded Murmansk Run. Through their experiences we have eyewitnesses to every danger zone, in every kind of ship. Some died horrific deaths. Others fought to survive torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, mine blasts, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys—only to ship out again on the next boat as soon as they'd returned to safety. The Mathews Men shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields—often the U.S. merchant mariners’ life-and-death struggles took place just off the U.S. coast—but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. “When final victory is ours,” General Dwight D. Eisenhower had predicted, “there is no organization that will share its credit more deservedly than the Merchant Marine.” Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.

Mathews Men Who Served In The War Between The States

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Author : Nelle Kellem Rhea White
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1941

Mathews Men Who Served In The War Between The States written by Nelle Kellem Rhea White and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1941 with Mathews County (Va.) categories.

The Payment

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Author : Mysty McPartland
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2010-06-03

The Payment written by Mysty McPartland and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-06-03 with categories.

When she snubs and embarrasses him, Dane wants nothing but to seek his revenge. In a poker game, he wins everything her brother owns but instead of taking his ranch or money, he wants his sister to marry him. His only problem though is taking her home to face his brothers because he know all hell will break out when he brings his wife home. Furious, India might have no choice but to be used as payment for her brothers gambling debt but she swears to make the despicable reprobates life a living hell. But when he catches her after running away she can no longer deny the attraction she feels towards him or the pleasure she finds in his arms. Now all she can hope for is that her marriage can survive facing the mob of woman hating men that were his brothers.

Beyond The Orange Moon

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Author : Adrienne Frances
language : en
Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Release Date : 2014-11-06

Beyond The Orange Moon written by Adrienne Frances and has been published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-11-06 with categories.

Sometimes fate strikes in unexpected ways. Lucy Dalton was tired of living a life she didn't want. Charlie Mathews was living the life he always wanted. But one night, fate changes the course of their lives forever. A year later, Lucy and Charlie's paths meet again, igniting a spark that neither can deny. Lucy knows he doesn't remember her, but she's already in too deep. Charlie knows the unwritten family rule: Mathews men never admit when they're broken. Can they leave the past where it belongs and find a way to look beyond the orange moon?

The Ghost Ships Of Archangel

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Author : William Geroux
language : en
Publisher: Penguin
Release Date : 2019-05-14

The Ghost Ships Of Archangel written by William Geroux and has been published by Penguin this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-05-14 with History categories.

An extraordinary story of survival and alliance during World War II: the icy journey of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver much needed supplies to the Soviet war effort. On the fourth of July, 1942, four Allied ships traversing the Arctic separated from their decimated convoy to head further north into the ice field of the North Pole, seeking safety from Nazi bombers and U-boats in the perilous white maze of ice floes, growlers, and giant bergs. Despite the risks, they had a better chance of survival than the rest of Convoy PQ-17, a fleet of thirty-five cargo ships carrying $1 billion worth of war supplies to the Soviet port of Archangel--the limited help Roosevelt and Churchill extended to Soviet dictator Joseph Stalin to maintain their fragile alliance, even as they avoided joining the fight in Europe while the Eastern Front raged. The high-level politics that put Convoy PQ-17 in the path of the Nazis were far from the minds of the diverse crews aboard their ships. U.S. Navy Ensign Howard Carraway, aboard the SS Troubadour, was a farm boy from South Carolina and one of the many Americans for whom the convoy was to be a first taste of war; aboard the SS Ironclad, Ensign William Carter of the U.S. Navy Reserve had passed up a chance at Harvard Business School to join the Navy Armed Guard; from the Royal Navy Reserve, Lt. Leo Gradwell was given command of the HMT Ayrshire, a fishing trawler that had been converted into an antisubmarine vessel. All the while, The Ghost Ships of Archangel turns its focus on Roosevelt, Churchill, and Stalin, playing diplomatic games that put their ships in peril. The twenty-four-hour Arctic daylight in midsummer gave no respite from bombers, and the Germans wielded the terrifying battleship Tirpitz, nicknamed The Big Bad Wolf. Icebergs were as dangerous as Nazis. As a newly forged alliance was close to dissolving and the remnants of Convoy PQ-17 tried to slip through the Arctic in one piece, the fate of the world hung in the balance.

The Mathews Light Artillery

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Author : George L. Sherwood
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999

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Our Fathers War

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Author : Tom Mathews
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005

Our Fathers War written by Tom Mathews and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Family & Relationships categories.

The author's relations with his father, a veteran of World War II, were terrible. The soldier came back from the war to a young son he'd barely met and proceeded to bully and browbeat him--for his own good. In the course of puzzling out almost fifty years of intermittent conflict, the author came to understand that their problems were not simply personal, they were generational--and widely shared. And so to write this book, which tells the secret history of World War II and its echoes down the generations, he has uncovered nine other dramatic and telling father-son tales.

First Supplement To The Catalogue Of The Young Men S Association Library Of The City Of Buffalo

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Author : Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo. Library
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1871

First Supplement To The Catalogue Of The Young Men S Association Library Of The City Of Buffalo written by Young Men's Association of the City of Buffalo. Library and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1871 with Library catalogs categories.

Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1875

Notes And Queries A Medium Of Inter Communication For Literary Men Artists Antiquaries Genealogists Etc written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1875 with categories.

The Publishers Trade List Annual

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1893

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