| Entry Text: | GOODHART, Philip. Fifty Ships that Saved the World: The Foundation of the Anglo-American Alliance. xi, 267p., index. London: Heinemann; New York: Doubleday, 1965.
Examines the diplomatic background to the Lend-Lease agreement, which brought 50 badly needed American destroyers to join the Royal and Royal Canadian Navies as the Town class. A 25-page chapter is devoted to their wartime career. |
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