Author: McShane, Mark,
Title: Neutral Shores: Ireland and the Battle of the Atlantic.
Description: EU, Mercier Press, (2012). VG PB. Battle for the Atlantic affected coastal communities right across Ireland and from September 1939 to the last days of the. war in 1945, Ireland was host to a constant flow of casualties from the longest naval campaign of the Second World War. Here McShane tells the stories of merchant navy ships and convoys attacked by the deadly German U-boats and anti-shipping bombers off the Irish coast, and of the harrowing fight for survival of crews left adrift in fragile lifeboats, whose only hope of rescue lay in reaching Ireland's shores. Slight edge wear.

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