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Contents

PREFACE

PROLOGUE

The President Defines the Problem

PART I: EARLY DAYS IN THE ATLANTIC

1. Bending the Pencil

2. A Destroyer for Sadie Hawkins Day

3. A Mirror to War: Fleet Problem XX

4. Germany: Ships and Strategy

PART II: THE NEUTRALITY PATROL

5. The Long, Bad Days Ahead

6. A Blue Flag at Ivigtut

7. Ceremonies Appropriate to a Neutral Nation

8. The German Response

9. A Passage to India

10. Plan Dog: Admiral Stark and the “Germany First” Decision

11. A Memento of a Ghostly Chase

PART III: THE ATLANTIC FLEET

12. Gentlemen from the Pacific

13. An Order with No Teeth

14. The Germans: Reckoning with Mahan

15. Bread and Butter for Ernie King

16. When the “Nazis” Invaded the New World

17. The First Shot: the Niblack Incident

18. A Certain Cold Place

19. A Goodly Company

20. New Man on an Old Ship: The Greer Incident

21. Buck Fever

PART IV: WAR

22. Admiral Bristol Runs the Milk

23. Sailors off the Kearny

24. “Old Sal” at the Windy Corner

25. “Did You Have a Friend on the Good Reuben James?

26. The Halifax Express

27. Turpentine and Red Roses: Sun-Tanned Atlantic Sailors

28. Air Raid Pearl Harbor

PART V: THE LAST CONVOYS

29. The Winter War

30. “Skipper, She Was Close Enough to Throw Spuds At!”

31. Saying Good-Bye to It All

32. A Cold, Black Shore

33. Phoenix

ABBREVIATIONS

NOTES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX

General

U.S. Naval Personnel

U.S. Ships