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This World War II story, which spans generations and straddles
two centuries, begins with the dramatic Battle of the Atlantic
in the 1940s and doesn’t conclude until 57 years later.
Told in the same character-driven narrative nonfiction style
as Dark Tide, it is a saga of the courageous survival
of ordinary sailors after their ship was torpedoed, and the
memories that haunted them after the U.S. Navy buried the
truth at war’s end. Based on previously classified government
documents, military records, personal interviews with widows
and survivors, and letters between crew members and their
families, Due to Enemy Action is the story of a small
subchaser, the Eagle 56, caught in the crosshairs
of a German U-boat, whose brazen commander doomed his own
55-man crew. It also describes the final chapter in the Battle
of the Atlantic, tracing the epic struggle that began with
shocking U-boat attacks against defenseless merchant ships
off American shores and ends with the last sinking of an American
warship — the Eagle 56 — by a German
submarine.
View photos from a recent ceremony honoring the Eagle 56 www.JDRF.org. |
