The Destroyer Escort was the smallest ocean-­going escort built for the United States Navy – a downsized destroyer with less speed, fewer guns, and fewer tor

Winston Churchill famously claimed that the submarine war in the Atlantic was the only campaign of the Second World War that really frightened him. If the lifel

The text describes the development of the class, armament, major conversion programs, differences between the American and British ships, and the operational hi

This is the first book to fully document the story behind the Frigates that played such a vital role during World War Two.