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a3989154 |
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SIRSI |
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20230405222943.0 |
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151221s2016 nyuabcf b 001 0deng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9780525428152 |
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(hardcover) |
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| International Standard Book Number |
0525428151 |
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(hardcover) |
| 035 ## - SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER |
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(OCoLC)933727437 |
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(OCoLC)915120539 |
| 040 ## - CATALOGING SOURCE |
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| Original cataloging agency |
TOH |
| Language of cataloging |
eng |
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rda |
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TOH |
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OCLCQ |
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YDXCP |
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BTCTA |
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BDX |
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OCLCQ |
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JO8 |
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CGP |
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OQX |
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JP3 |
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BUR |
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JOY |
| 050 #4 - LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CALL NUMBER |
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| Classification number |
D781 |
| Item number |
.G47 2016 |
| 029 ## - OTHER SYSTEM CONTROL NUMBER (OCLC) |
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| OCLC library identifier |
9780525428152 |
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(hardcover) |
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| OCLC library identifier |
0525428151 |
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(hardcover) |
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915120539 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Geroux, William, |
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author. |
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650087 |
| 245 14 - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
The Mathews men : |
| Remainder of title |
seven brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
William Geroux. |
| 246 3# - VARYING FORM OF TITLE |
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| Title proper/short title |
Mathews men : |
| Remainder of title |
7 brothers and the war against Hitler's U-boats |
| 264 #1 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Place of production, publication, distribution, manufacture |
New York, New York : |
| Name of producer, publisher, distributor, manufacturer |
Viking, |
| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
[2016] |
| 264 #4 - PRODUCTION, PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, MANUFACTURE, AND COPYRIGHT NOTICE |
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| Date of production, publication, distribution, manufacture, or copyright notice |
©2016 |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
ix, 390 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : |
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illustrations, maps, portraits, facsimiles ; |
| Dimensions |
24 cm |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
text |
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txt |
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rdacontent |
| 336 ## - CONTENT TYPE |
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| Content type term |
still image |
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sti |
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rdacontent |
| 337 ## - MEDIA TYPE |
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unmediated |
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n |
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rdamedia |
| 338 ## - CARRIER TYPE |
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volume |
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nc |
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rdacarrier |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-375) and index. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE |
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| Formatted contents note |
A gift from the predators -- Born to the water -- The Devil's shovel -- Missing -- Professional survivors -- "Off Hatteras the tankers sink" -- Killing ground to battleground -- "Avoid polar bear liver" -- Catastrophe -- "Please don't tell me" -- Counterattack -- The conveyor belt -- War's end -- Legacy -- The Mathews men and women. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
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. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
One of the indelible images of World War II is of an explosion at sea-- a U-boat attack, a ship in flames, and an ocean full of men swimming for their lives. The Mathews Men tells the story of what it was like to be on those ships in an almost unknown epic sea battle that took place just off the coast of America. Its heroes were the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine, celebrated at long last in this book. Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay. Its men had gone to sea for generations, but in 1942, Mathews mariners suddenly found themselves in the crosshairs of a lethal fleet of U-boats. The Germans were determined to sink every American merchant ship they could, to strangle the flow of fuel, arms, and supplies to the Allies. The U.S. Navy initially lacked the inclination and resources to protect the unarmed vessels, and the carnage was staggering. Ships were sometimes torpedoed before the eyes of tourists on American beaches. Nearly every family in tiny Mathews had a personal stake in the U-boat war, and none had a greater one than that of Captain Jesse and Henrietta Hodges and their seven sons. The Hodges family would experience the war from the Gulf of Mexico to the Indian Ocean to the Arctic Circle. Drawing on interviews with the last living Mathews mariners, family records, diaries, letters, and official documents, journalist William Geroux describes how men survived torpedo explosions, flaming oil slicks, storms, shark attacks, and harrowing lifeboat odysseys-- only to ship out again as soon as they'd returned to safety. Merchant mariners often died terrible deaths, and suffered a higher casualty rate than any branch of the U.S. military except the Marines-- but were denied veterans benefits for decades. This is a story of valor without glory, of the men who made sure no Allied invasion force was ever thrown back into the sea for want of supplies or weaponry. Merchant mariners landed at D-Day and delivered the crew of the Enola Gay to the Pacific, and when the war was over, it was Merchant Marine ships that brought the troops home. Geroux evokes in vivid, human detail a war beyond the familiar battlefields and its toll on the families back home. Unrecognized by the government, unheralded in the history books, the achievements and sacrifices of the Merchant Marine have been largely ignored-until now.--Adapted from dust jacket. |
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TR-NBK |
| 600 30 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Hodges family. |
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578314 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision |
Naval operations |
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Submarine. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
601213 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
World War, 1939-1945 |
| General subdivision |
Naval operations, German. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
601215 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Merchant mariners |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
610139 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Submarines (Ships) |
| Geographic subdivision |
Germany |
| General subdivision |
History |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
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636437 |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Merchant mariners |
| Geographic subdivision |
United States |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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Brothers |
| Geographic subdivision |
Virginia |
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Mathews |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Submarines (Ships) |
| Geographic subdivision |
Germany. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
612310 |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Atlantic Coast (U.S.) |
| General subdivision |
History, Naval |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Mathews County (Va.) |
| Form subdivision |
Biography. |
| 651 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--GEOGRAPHIC NAME |
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| Geographic name |
Mathews County (Va.) |
| General subdivision |
History, Naval |
| Chronological subdivision |
20th century. |