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New York: Rinehart & Company, Inc., 1946. Published in Cooperation with the Council on Books in Wartime. First Edition. Octavo, gray cloth (hardcover), blue spine label, gilt letters, xvii, 558 pp. Very Good, with light rubbing to covers; in a Good, mylar protected dust jacket with edgewear that includes light chipping. From dustjacket: This is the narrative of the American Navy in the Atlantic from the days of neutrality patrol to the crossing of the Rhine. Now the complete story can be told of duty in the frigid waters off Iceland and Greenland, the “Killer Groups” in the action that destroyed Germany’s U-boat power, and the great, amphibious landings in Africa, Sicily and Italy, Normandy, and Southern France. This volume tells the story of how the Navy convoyed the largest expeditionary forces in history across 3,000 miles of water and landed them on coasts bristling with Nazi guns and crack troops. Battle Report: The Atlantic War is taken from the official sources of our Navy and… Read More