The Fighting Fleets
Subtitle: Five Months Of Active Service With The American Destroyers And Their Allies In The War Zone
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Published: July 25, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 514
ISBN-13: 9780548046753
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; Military - Naval; History / Military / Naval; History - Military / War
First sentence: MY first glimpse of these splendid destroyers of ours was from the deck of a liner out of an American port, cracking on at nineteen knots through the war-zone, navy gun crews standing watch and watch, smoke-boxes ready to be dropped overside, passengers prudently girdled with life-belts, regarding it as a great adventure to imperil their precious lives in daring the Atlantic voyage.