I just finished reading _Torpedo Junction_ by Homer H. Hickam, Jr. (yes,
he of _Rocket Boys_, later renamed _October Sky_), an account of the war
just off the Atlantic coast of the US in 1942. The Germans sent a few
U-boats across the Atlantic to disrupt merchant shipping in the eastern
US, and were at first very successful, until the Americans figured out the
best ways to combat them and finally drive off the few that they didn't
take out altogether.
The book was quite readable. (Much lighter reading than some of the other
WWII books around here.) I enjoyed it. And, it might be the pregnancy
hormones, but I came very close to crying at the end. (Good cry, not bad
cry.)
Julia
