02404cam a2200325 a 4500 12371725 BD-DhUL 20150113191415.0 010406s2001 mdua b 001 0 eng 2001089745 1557505357 DLC DLC DLC BD-DhUL pcc n-us--- D773 .E47 2001 623.8245 21 ELL Elphick, Peter. Liberty : the ships that won the war / by Peter Elphick. Annapolis, Md. : Naval Institute Press, c2001. 512 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. US$ 44.55 Includes bibliographical references (p. 490-497)and index. Machine generated contents note: PART I: IN THE BEGINNING -- 1. The Parentage of the Liberty Ship -- 2. The British Shipbuilding Mission to the United States -- 3. Birth of the Liberty Ship -- 4. The Shipyards and their Workers -- 5. The Naming Game -- 6. The Wartime Liberty Crews -- 7. Close to Calamity: the Structural Failure Problem -- PART II: THE LIBERTY AT WAR -- 8. Ubiquity -- 9. A Liberty versus a German Raider -- 10. The North Atlantic -- 11. Liberty Ships and the Northern Route to Russia -- 12. Liberties and Operation 'Torch' -- 13. Liberties as Troopships and Animal Transports -- 14. Liberties in the Mediterranean -- 15. The Poison Gas Disaster at Bari -- 16. Liberties and the Allied Salvage Services -- 17. Normandy and the Campaign in Europe -- 18. 'Let Sleeping Wrecks Lie': The On-going Saga -- of the Richard Montgomery -- 19. Liberties in the Indian Ocean -- 20. Liberties in the Pacific -- 21. The Other Allied Liberties -- PART III: AFTER THE WAR -- 22. The Liberty Ship's Role in-Peacetime -- 23. Tragedy off Porthcawl: The Loss of the Samtampa -- 24. Lost without Trace -- 25. More Post-war Disasters, Trials and Tribulations -- 26. The Last Years of the Trading Liberties -- 27. Treasure Hunt -- 28. The Surviving Liberties -- Appendices -- Bibliography -- Abbreviations -- Index. Liberty ships United States History. World War, 1939-1945 Naval operations, American. Table of contents http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy022/2001089745.html 7 cbc orignew 2 epcn 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK pc20 04-06-01 pb11 2001-08-31 to ASCD jg14 2001-11-19 aa21 2002-06-07 30543 30543 0 0 ddc 0 623_824500000000000_ELL 0 NFIC 57825 DUSL DUSL GEN 2012-11-20 Purchased 623.8245 ELL 476458 2015-01-13 1 2015-01-13 BK