LIFE AND DEATH ON THE GREENLAND PATROL, 1942.

Octavo, light blue paper covered boards backed with blue cloth in a dust wrapper. xx, [i], 205 & [1] pages. Black-and-white illustrations, including maps. Fine. First edition.Edited by P. J. Capelotti. A title in the series "New Perspectives on Maritime History and Nautical Archeology" edited by James C. Bradford and Gene A. Smith, who contributed the foreword to the book."One of the untold stories of World War II is the guarding of Greenland and its coastal waters, where the first U.S. capture of an enemy ship took place." The diary kept by Thaddeus Nowakowski [now Novak] is "the only known diary of an enlisted Coast Guard sailor to emerge from WWII." Dust jacket present. First Edition.

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Publisher: Gainesville, FL: University Press of Florida, (2005).

Year: (2005).

Type: Used

Binding: Softcover

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