num_pages: 384
description: For those who served on shipboard during World War II danger lurked 24 hours a day. Through a brilliant mixture of narrative history and personal accountscollected over almost 30 years of interviewing combatants from both sidesa very powerful human story emerges of the danger elation and miseries of six years of the longest battle in the war.
language: English
title: LONGEST BATTLE: The War at Sea 1939-45
publisher: Cassell