To Die Gallantly

Preface -- Introduction: An American Assessment -- The Early Years -- The Atlantic in the Strategic Perspective of Hitler and Roosevelt, 1940-1941 -- The Views of Stimson and Knox on Atlantic Strategy and Planning -- Codes and Ciphers: Radio Communication and Intelligence -- Planning the Defense of the South Atlantic, 1939-1941: Securing Brazil -- Brazil, Espionage, and Doenitz's Dream -- The "Happy Time" -- The Character of the German Naval Offensive: October 1940-June 194 -- The U.S. Navy and Operation Roll of Drums, 1942 -- Squaring Some of the Corners: The Royal Canadian Navy and the Pattern of the Atlantic War -- The Battle of the Atlantic, 1941-1943: Peaks and Troughs -- The U-Boat War off the Outerbanks -- Turning the Tide -- "Situation Extremely Dangerous": Three Atlantic Convoys in February 1943 -- Ultra, Air Power, and the Second Battle of the St. Lawrence, 1944 -- Operation Teardrop Revisited -- Mahan's Principles and the Battle of the Atlantic -- Kapitaen Fred Krage: Blockade Runner -- Looking Back -- United States Merchant Marine Casualties -- The Merchant Marine Cadet Corps -- Port in a Storm: The Port of New York in World War II -- The Coast Guard Captains of the Ports -- The Battle of the Atlantic in Feature Films