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Twelve desperate miles: the epic WWII voyage of the SS Contessa

By Brady , Tim

Book information

Publisher
Crown;Archetype;Broadway Paperbacks
Year
2012
ISBN
9780307590398, 9780307590381, 0307590380
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
4 MB (4655692 bytes)
Edition
First paperback edition
Pages
xv, 328 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illu
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
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Description

November 1942, the largest convoy ever to cross the Atlantic attacked Axis forces in North Africa in the first major battle of the war in Europe. Vital to its mission was a rusty transport out of New Orleans and a gang of ex-cons from a decrepit Virginia jail.

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