The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56
by Stephen Puleo
New Hardback edition with dust jacket
321 pages, 29 black and white photos, 2 diagrams and 1 map
Only $22.95
The Author
Stephen
Puleo is the author of "Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919"
a critically acclaimed Boston-area bestseller. Puelo has a master's degree
in history and has contributed feature stories and book reviews to "American
History" magazine. Formerly an award-winning newspaper reporter, he
currently works as a corporate communications and public relations
consultant. Stephen and his wife, Kate, live in the Boston area.
ISBN # 1-59228-739-5
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"Due to Enemy Action" tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the dramatic Battle of the Atlantic in the 1940s and doesn't conclude until an emotional Purple Heart ceremony in 2002. Based on previously classified government documents, military records, personal interviews, and letters between crew members and their families, this is the true saga of the courageous survival of ordinary American sailors when their warship was torpedoed and their shipmates were killed on April 23, 1945—and the memories that haunted them after the U.S. Navy buried the truth at war's end. It is the story of a small U.S. sub-chaser, the Eagle 56, caught in the crosshairs of a German U-boat, the U-853, whose brazen commander doomed his own crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to record final kills before his country's imminent defeat a few weeks later in May. And it is the account of how one man, Paul M. Lawton, embarked on an unrelenting quest for the truth and changed naval history.
Author Stephen Puleo draws from extensive personal interviews with all the major players, including the three living survivors (and a fourth who emerged as the book went to press); a senior U.S. naval archivist who worked with German historians after the war to catalog U-boat movements; and the son of the man who commanded America's sub-tracking "Secret Room" during the war. "Due to Enemy Action" also describes the final chapter in the bloody Battle of the Atlantic, tracing the epic struggle that began with shocking U-boat attacks against hundreds of defenseless merchant vessels off American shores in 1942.
New hardback edition with dust jacket. 321 pages, 29 black and white photos, 2 diagrams, 1 map and an index.
New Books --- $22.95
"With a good sense of timing and an easy voice, Puleo sets the scene for the disaster to come... [He] properly and compellingly recasts quaint folklore as a tragedy with with important ramifications." Kirkus Review
"Narrated with gusto... [Puleo's] enthusiasm for a little-known catastrophe is infectious." The New Yorker
"Giving a human face to tragedy is part of the brilliance of Stephen Puleo's "Dark Tide"... Until they were given voice in this book, the characters who drove the story were forgotten." Caroline Leavitt, Boston Sunday Globe