Note to Booksellers

2007-02-01 08:58:31

In 1942, the tiny Mediterranean island of Malta was the most heavily bombed place on earth. Hitler needed Malta as a stepping-stone to get to the Persian oil. To Churchill, Malta was the crux of the war.

"At All Costs" is a triumphant story about men determined to save a ship and win a war; a tale of profound communal courage from an island under brutal siege; and the account of an indomitable Norwegian girl escaping Nazi occupation with her child. It's a character-driven, page-turning, adventure on the high seas. It's been compared to "The Perfect Storm." The Seattle Post-Intelligencer called it "an intense and riveting naval saga, brilliantly told."

"Thrillingly told and beautifully researched, At All Costs is not just the against-all-odds story of the saving of Malta, but also of how the fate of nations can turn on the personal bravery of two ordinary men," said Robert Kurson, author of the bestselling "Shadow Divers."

Sam Moses

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Note to Librarians

2007-01-01 08:54:14

For most of the two intense years it took to research and write "At All Costs," there were some 200 history books, biographies and memoirs piled around my desk. Nowhere among them did I find the story told here, about the importance of the...

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Chapter 4: Fire Down Below

2006-12-10 17:19:44

Fred Larsen’s Irish grandfather, the woodcarver Christopher Melia, and William Russell Grace, who founded Grace Line after emigrating from Ireland, were about the same age and had the same eye for beauty. Had they lived long enough to see...

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Chapter 3: Loose Cannon

2006-12-01 07:35:38

At twenty-eight, Lieutenant Reinhard Hardegen, a German U-boat captain, was a loose cannon. He carried unchecked ambition and relentless intensity along with his war wounds—a short leg and bleeding stomach—from the aviation...

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Random House Releases "At All Costs"

2006-11-06 16:58:43

“Thrillingly told and beautifully researched, AT ALL COSTS is not just the against-all-odds story of the saving of Malta, but also of how the fate of nations can turn on the personal bravery of two ordinary men.” —Robert...

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