As the U.S. Merchant Marine has declined over the last several decades, so too has the memory of the countless acts of unflinching courage and patriotism performed by its civilian officers and seamen in America's armed struggles. Scouring long-out-of-print books and dusty archives, veteran writer and merchant marine officer Bruce Felknor has collected the most dramatic of these stories from all of America's wars through World War II into a single comprehensive illustrated volume. Excerpts from such authors as Winston Churchill, Samuel Eliot Morison, and Lowell Thomas are combined with eyewitness accounts - many never before published - by heroes, victims, and survivors.
- ISBN10 1557502730
- ISBN13 9781557502735
- Publish Date 1 May 1998
- Publish Status Out of Stock
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Naval Institute Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 384
- Language English