ATTACK & SINK - The Battle For Convoy SC42 by Edwards, Bernard

Wimborne Minster, 1995, New Era Writer's Guild, UK first edition, paper covers, 5 1/2 x 8 1/2, VG condition, 199 pages, illus, maps, bibliog, appendices, index.----------------------------------------------------------- This convoy must not get through-U-boats must pursue, attack and sink.'This was the signal that Admiral Donitz sent to the commanders of the 21 U-boats of the Markgraf wolf-pack on the 9th September 1941.Sixty three merchant ships, many of them British; a number old and dilapidated and all slow and heavy-laden with vital supplies for the United Kingdom, were strung out in 12 columns abreast, covering an area of 25 miles of inhospitable ocean. They set sail from 'Nova Scotia at a time when the. German U-boats were sinking more than one hundred ships a month.Their escort of one destroyer and three corvettes of the Royal Canadian Navy, all untried in combat, was hopelessly outclassed when the battle for SC42 commenced when it was in sight of the coast of Greenland. The battle lasted for seven days and covered 1,200 miles of ocean.Captain Bernard Edwards has written another superb story of courage and endurance and has dedicated this book to all those who fought and died in the battle for convoy SC42. First hand accounts of the participants on both sides adds to the interest and drama.