<p><b>THE GRIPPING NAVAL THRILLER, NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING TOM HANKS</b><br> _______<br><br><b>1942.</b><b>America enters the war and an untested officer receives his first wartime command . . .</b><br><br> Ploughing through icy, submarine-infested North Atlantic seas is a convoy of thirty-seven merchant ships, carrying vital Allied supplies.<br><br> In charge is Commander Krause, a grizzled but unproven veteran of the U.S. Navy.<br><br> Over the next forty-eight hours he will stay on watch aboard the bridge of his destroyer as the convoy is hounded by a murderous wolf pack of German U-boats determined to sink every ship without trace.<br><br> But armed with extraordinary courage and grit, Commander Krause will battle the U-boats, tiredness, self-doubt and self-reproach, as he desperately tries to protect the ships and lives under his command . . .<br><br><b>This classic wartime novel is a thrillingly taut tale of bravery and determination against all odds, set during the d