A Measureless Peril: America in the Fight for the Atlantic, the Longest

An exciting history told with a novelist's eye and filled with intimate details of the longest and largest battle of WWII-the fight for the Atlantic Ocean.

Of all the threats that faced his country in World War II, Winston Churchill said, just one really scared him-what he called the "measureless peril" of the German U-boat campaign.

In that global conflagration, only one battle-the struggle for the Atlantic-lasted from the very first hours of the conflict to its final day. Hitler knew that...