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Trade paperback. Zustand: Very good. xxii, 196, [6] pages. Illustrations. Bibliography. Maps. Index. Cover has minor wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Robert Randolph Bradham, M.D., was born on November 9, 1924. Dr. Bradham enlisted in the Army in 1943. He served as a staff sergeant in Company E, 262nd Infantry, in France and Germany, and received two bronze stars for heroic achievement in connection with military operations in Brittany. After the war, he graduated from the University of South Carolina, and attained his medical degree from the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC), followed by a surgical residency at the University of Michigan. Upon returning to Charleston, Dr. Bradham became Professor of Surgery at MUSC, and in 1964, attended Duke University Medical School for his cardiovascular and thoracic surgery training. When he returned, Dr. Bradham went into private practice, while at the same time maintaining his teaching role as a professor of cardiovascular surgery at MUSC and pursuing research. He remained a Clinical Professor of Thoracic and Cardiovascular Surgery at MUSC until his retirement. He received the Golden Apple Award from the American Medical Association for excellence in teaching in 1962-1963. During his medical career, Dr. Bradham published over 100 medical research articles, and in 1983, received the Roe Foundation Award for the best paper of the year in The Journal of the South Carolina Medical Association. Upon his retirement from medicine in 1995 at the age of 71, Dr. Bradham wrote three books on World War II: Hitler's U-Boat Fortresses; To the Last Man; and Set Europe Ablaze. . . . A most unexpected gift to our nation. I know veterans will want to read this; but I hope all Americans, especially the children, will read it so they understand the sacrifices their grandparents made . --Sen. Ernest F. Hollings, D-South Carolina. The French naval bases at St. Nazaire and Lorient, occupied by the Germans in June 1940, quickly became the homes of massive U-boat fortresses--nearly indestructible submarine pens, built mostly by slave labor. From these bases, the U-boats struck merchant shipping at will from the Mediterranean to the North Sea. Thousands of vessels were lost, along with vital war material from the U.S. destined for Britain and the Soviet Union. The Royal Air Force began an all-out bombardment of the two ports. Despite their extensive efforts, and those of the Americans who joined them in 1942, the fortresses would survive, surrounded by decimated French towns and countryside. The desperate battle was waged on land, air, and sea. Because the dock at St. Nazaire could house and repair Hitler's powerful warship, the Tirpitz, British commandos carried out a daring raid to destroy it in March of 1942. They succeeded, but with a great loss of life, and the Germans were able to quickly repair much of the damage. The defenses of these fortresses were so strong that General Eisenhower would ultimately decide to seek containment rather than destruction. The U.S. Army's 66th Infantry Division, on its way to take up the task, lost its troopship Leopoldville to a German torpedo, with 802 men going down with the ship. The French underground movement in the area would spawn a fighting force of 40,000 men to fight alongside the Allies, and the subsequent German reprisals would devastate many families in Brittany. Yet, the bases stood--and they continue to stand today. First Lyons Press Paperback Edition [stated]. First printing [stated].

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