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Due to Enemy Action by Stephen Puleo
Due to Enemy Action tells for the first time a World War II story that spans generations and straddles two centuries, a story that begins with the dramatic Battle of the Atlantic in the 1940s and doesn’t conclude until an emotional Purple Heart ceremony in 2002. Based on previously classified government documents, military records, personal interviews, and letters between crew members and their families, this is the saga of the courageous survival of ordinary sailors when their ship was torpedoed and their shipmates were killed on April 23, 1945, and the memories that haunted them after the U.S. Navy buried the truth at war’s end. It is the story of a small subchaser, the Eagle 56, caught in the crosshairs of a German U-boat, the U-853, whose brazen commander doomed his own crew in a desperate, last-ditch attempt to record final kills before his country’s imminent defeat. And it is the account of how one man, Paul M. Lawton, embarked on an unrelenting quest for the truth and changed naval history.
Author Stephen Puleo draws from extensive personal interviews with all the major players, including the three living survivors (and a fourth who emerged as the book went to press); a senior U.S. naval archivist who worked with German historians after the war to catalog U-boat movements; and the son of the man who commanded America’s sub-tracking “Secret Room� during the war. Due to Enemy Action also describes the final chapter in the Battle of the Atlantic, tracing the epic struggle that began with shocking U-boat attacks against hundreds of defenseless merchant ships off American shores in 1942 and ended with the sinking of the Eagle 56, the last American warship sunk by a German U-boat.
Stephen Puleo is the author of four books (with a fifth due out in the fall of 2012), historian, university teacher, public speaker, and communications professional. His books have been reviewed favorably by the New Yorker, the Boston Globe, the New Republic, the Associated Press, the Providence Journal, the Hartford Courant, the New England Quarterly, the Portland Press Herald, the Denver Post, the San Francisco Bay Guardian, Kirkus Reviews, and Publishers Weekly. His books have been the subjects of programs on The History Channel and C-Spans Book TV.
In addition, Puleo’s books have been the subject of stories in numerous newspapers and publications. Nearly 50 book clubs have chosen his books (Puleo includes book-club discussion questions on his website), and his books have been woven into high school and college history curricula. An experienced, dynamic, and in-demand speaker and presenter, he has made nearly 350 public appearances, before thousands of readers, since the publication of his first book in the fall of 2003. Numerous communities have selected his work as the subject of “community-wide reads,� including Boston, which in 2010 chose his book, Dark Tide, as the all-time number one book about the city (boston.com vote).
His most recent previous book, A City So Grand: The Rise of an American Metropolis, Boston 1850-1900 was released in May of 2010 by Beacon Press (paperback in spring of 2011). Bestselling novelist Dennis Lehane said on the book: “A City So Grand is a book so grand. It’s been quite awhile since I’ve read anything–fiction or non-fiction–so enthralling. My only complaint is that it ended.� Publishers Weekly called the book “smoothly narrated� and a “thorough history.� The New Republic said Puleo “presents us with an enjoyable catalog of wonders produced by Boston during the period under review.� The Boston Sunday Globe published a story by Puleo in its April 11, 2010 edition, adapted from A City So Grand, entitled “When Boston Awoke.�
He is also the author of the Boston Globe-bestseller The Boston Italians: A Story of Pride, Perseverance, and Paesani, from the Years of the Great Immigration to the Present Day (Beacon, 2007; paperback 2008); the Boston-area and New England bestseller Due to Enemy Action: The True World War II Story of the USS Eagle 56 (Lyons Press, 2005); and the highly acclaimed Boston-area and Boston Globe bestseller, Dark Tide: The Great Boston Molasses Flood of 1919 (Beacon Press, 2003; paperback 2004). The Boston Authors Club selected Dark Tide as a finalist for its prestigious Julia Ward Howe Award for literary merit. In addition, the Associated Press included Dark Tide in its “round-up� selection of books to read nationally, a recommendation that appeared in more than 80 newspapers across the country. Due to Enemy Action was excerpted in The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told, edited by Lamar Underwood (2005).
A former award-winning newspaper reporter and contributor of feature stories and book reviews to American History magazine and the Boston Globe, Puleo holds a master’s degree in history (From Italy to Boston’s North End: Italian Immigration and Settlement, 1890-1910, UMass-Boston, 1994), for which he received the Dean’s Award for Academic Achievement, and was the Graduate Convocation keynote speaker. He teaches at Suffolk University in Boston.
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