Title: Non-Combatants
First published: July 7, 2005
Description: In the summer of 1940, Andy Holt is aboard the SS Barranquilla as second mate. They will be routed up the US seaboard to Halifax, Nova Scotia which is the assembly-point for home-bound convoys. The danger of U-boats is very high as they prefer their prey to be fully laden. ... Odds against Andy and his ship getting home are not good.
Subjects: Submarines (Ships), Merchant marine, World War, 1939-1945, Fiction, World war, 1939-1945, fiction, Fiction, war & military, British Naval operations, Naval convoys