Capelotti & Novak Life And Death On The Greenland Patrol, 1942 9780813060286

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Автор: Capelotti & Novak
Название: Life And Death On The Greenland Patrol, 1942
ISBN: 9780813060286
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
Классификация:

История 20 века: с 1900 по 2000

Военная история

Вторая мировая война

ISBN-10: 0813060281
Обложка/Формат: Paperback
Страницы: 240
Вес: 0.36 кг.
Дата издания: 30.01.2014
Серия: New perspectives on maritime history and nautical archaeology (paperback)
Язык: English
Иллюстрации: 14 black & white photographs, 3 maps
Размер: 230 x 153 x 14
Читательская аудитория: Professional and scholarly
Ключевые слова: Second World War
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Поставляется из: Англии
Описание: Though the Greenland coast was of vital importance to Allied forces, U.S. Coast Guard crews serving there were relegated to converted fishing vessels known as “wooden shoes.” Hastily commissioned in Boston to serve as escorts for supply routes to new air bases in Greenland, ten Arctic trawlers were transformed into the basis of the Greenland Patrol, transporting young men who had never been away from home into a realm of mountainous icebergs, lurking U-boats, and the alien culture of native Greenland Eskimos. This story of the Nanok’s 1942 patrol is a remarkable account of a sailor thrown into a global war in a remote area full of environmental hardships that few endured in World War II. Between the sudden excitements and mind-numbing boredom of military life, Novak records the routine details of day-to-day patrol, contacts with the native Greenlanders and their impenetrable way of life, and actions such as the loss of the cutter Natsek and its entire crew on the night of December 17, 1942. Not an account of grand strategy or hand-to-hand combat, this story of a twenty-year-old petty officer on duty in the Arctic is rather the life of an ordinary individual at war, coping with rigorous hardships during a time of great crisis.Novak’s account will be of significant value to students of the U.S. Coast Guard and of naval service in wartime. His illumination of the small details of a sailor’s life and perceptive observation of the arctic region and its little-known people will appeal to anyone interested in maritime history.

Life And Death On The Greenland Patrol, 1942, Capelotti & Novak