cover image Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

Operation Drumbeat: Germany's U-Boat Attacks Along the American Coast in World War II

Michael V. Gannon. Harper Perennial, $18.99 (528pp) ISBN 978-0-06-092088-3

Interviews with a U-boat skipper, former German crew members and U.S. and British military personnel help explain why the Allies lost nearly 400 ships to U-boat attacks; evidence suggests that well-informed British intelligence was disregarded by the Anglophobic U.S. chief of naval operations. ``The book will be of enormous interest to sub warfare buffs,'' said PW. Photos. (June)