Derek Law's Bibliography

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Entry Text: MURPHY, Mark. 83 Days: The Survival of Seaman Izzi. 124p., illus. New York: Dutton, 1943.

Izzi was one of the US Armed Guard section on the Dutch liner Zaandam sunk by U 174 in the South Atlantic on 2 November 1942. It took almost three months before he was rescued by a US patrol craft, after suffering great privations.