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- Hardcover
- ISBN
- 9780525428152
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Publisher
Penguin Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0525428151
ISBN-13
9780525428152
eBay Product ID (ePID)
215918111
Product Key Features
Book Title
Mathews Men : Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler's U-Boats
Number of Pages
392 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Military / World War II, United States / 20th Century, United States / State & Local / South (Al, Ar, Fl, Ga, Ky, La, ms, Nc, SC, Tn, VA, WV), Ships & Shipbuilding / General
Publication Year
2016
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Transportation, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
1.3 in
Item Weight
24.1 Oz
Item Length
9.1 in
Item Width
6.3 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2016-429937
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Edition
23
Reviews
Reviews for The Mathews Men "The valor and contributions of the U.S. Merchant Marines to victory in WWII has seldom been acknowledged . . . Geroux presents an unflinching, inspiring, and long delayed tribute to the sacrifice of these men."-- Booklist (starred review) "Poignant . . . A deep, compassionate group biography of these ''unsung heroes'' of the Merchant Marines."-- Kirkus "Geroux combines the skills of a newsman and those of a scholar to tell the story of the vital and heroic role played by the U.S. Merchant Marines during WWII"-- Publishers Weekly Advance Praise for The Mathews Men "Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping, The Mathews Men shines a light on the mostly forgotten but astonishing role the U.S. Merchant Marine played in winning World War II. It brings back to life a breed of men who repeatedly risk all for their country. It chronicles the sagas of families that stoically endured heartrending losses. It honors a community that pulled together to support its sons as they set out--again and again--on deadly seas. And it reminds us how much we owe to the legions of ordinary Americans who quite literally saved the civilized world in the 1940s." --Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat "William Geroux has written a classic American tale, a gripping story of courageous everyday heroes facing death in World War II." --James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers "William Geroux''s The Mathews Men harkens to the war heroics of Laura Hillenbrand''s Unbroken and the British detective drama Foyle''s War . A little-known story about the brutal sacrifices made by Merchant Mariners--and the tiny bayside community they left behind in Mathews County, Virginia--Geroux''s book is a gripping account of hard-drinking and even harder-working seamen, and a fresh take on World War II history. Loaded with offbeat characters trying to survive against astonishingly impossible odds, Geroux gives these unheralded heroes their belated due in an account that is as meticulously researched as it is even-handed and poignant." --Beth Macy, author of Factory Man: How One Furniture Maker Battled Offshoring, Stayed Local - and Helped Save an American Town "When a reporter who writes as elegantly as Geroux unearths such a dramatic and untold story, he must feel as if he''s hit the motherlode. With The Mathews Men , Geroux gives us a rollicking read that plunges you into the middle of the ocean and seduces you into caring for the story''s heroic seafarers. This is both a terrific and terrifying blow-by-blow of the actions of the sailors of the U.S. Merchant Marine as the dodged deadly U-Boats during the course of World War II and who, as Lincoln put it, too often made the ultimate sacrifice upon the altar of freedom." --Bob Drury and Tom Clavin, co-authors of Halsey''s Typhoon and The Heart of Everything That Is "Often overlooked and unsung, the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine risked all against stealthy German U-boats whether within sight of East Coast cities or on the Arctic run to Murmansk. Mr. Geroux has superbly chronicled the gripping and deeply personal story of brothers in blood as well as in mission." --Walter R. Borneman, author of The Admirals: Nimitz, Halsey, Leahy, and King--The Five-star Admirals Who Won the War at Sea "The German U-Boat war against American merchant men was deadly and dramatic--in World War II, the U.S. Merchant Marine had twice the fatality rate of the U.S. Navy. William Geroux has unearthed a fascinating tale of one small coastal town caught in the thick of the fight, and he tells it with a sharp reporter''s eye and a real feel for the heroic men who went down to the sea in ships." --Evan Thomas, author of Being Nixon and Sea of Thunder, Praise for The Mathews Men "The German U-Boat war against American merchant men was deadly and dramatic--in World War II, the U.S. Merchant Marine had twice the fatality rate of the U.S. Navy. William Geroux has unearthed a fascinating tale of one small coastal town caught in the thick of the fight, and he tells it with a sharp reporter's eye and a real feel for the heroic men who went down to the sea in ships." --Evan Thomas is the author of Being Nixon and Sea of Thunder
Dewey Decimal
940.54/293092275531
Synopsis
Mathews County, Virginia, is a bleak strip of land along the Chesapeake with almost nothing to offer ? but it sent one of the largest concentrations of sea captains and merchant mariners of any community in America to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbours), all of them merchant marines, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the first fleet of U-Boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942., "Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping." --Daniel James Brown, #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Boys in the Boat 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.
LC Classification Number
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Great book on some of the unsung Merchant Marine heroes of WW2.
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