The Humpherys Family

Battleground Atlantic

Record Added: 4/29/2018
Setting United States
Topic History: World War I and
Publisher Penguin Books
ISBN 0451217667   Year 2006
Age Adult   Pages 320
Description Cream and brown dustjacket
 
A chronicle of a little-known event of World War II provides an in-depth account of the June 1944 sinking by U.S. Navy warplanes of a Japanese submarine, a ship carrying the ingredients of a radiological bomb, purchased from the Germans, that had been intended for use in an attack on the California coast.
Notes
Battleground Atlantic: How the Sinking of a Single Japanese Submarine Assured the Outcome of World War
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