{"product_id":"the-mathews-men-seven-brothers-and-the-war-against-hitlers-uboats-9780143109266","title":"The Mathews Men Seven Brothers and the War","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e“Vividly drawn and emotionally gripping.\u003cbr\u003e—Daniel James Brown, #1 \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author of\u003ci\u003e The Boys in the Boat\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ghost Ships of Archangel\u003c\/i\u003e, one of the last unheralded heroic stories of World War II: the U-boat assault off the American coast against the men of the U.S. Merchant Marine who were supplying the European war, and one community’s monumental contribution to that effort\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery—but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. \u003ci\u003eThe Mathews Men\u003c\/i\u003e tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFrom the late 1930s to","brand":"Penguin Putnam Inc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49524481917271,"sku":"9780143109266","price":14.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780143109266.jpg?v=1731856930","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-mathews-men-seven-brothers-and-the-war-against-hitlers-uboats-9780143109266","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}