U-Boats Off the Outer Banks: Shadows in the Moonlight

by Jim Bunch

From January to July 1942, more than seventy-five ships sank to North Carolina's "Graveyard of the Atlantic" off the coast of the Outer Banks. German U-boats sank ships in some of the most harrowing sea fighting close to America's shore. Germany's Operation Drumbeat, led by Admiral Karl Donitz, brought fear to the local communities. A Standard oil tanker sank just sixty miles from Cape Hatteras. The U-85 was the first U-boat sunk by American surface...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1540217256
• ISBN13: 9781540217257
• Release Date: July 2017
• Publisher: History Press Library Editions
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 1.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"