Signet, Scarborough, ON, 1979, 2nd pr.  ISBN 0-7723-0015-1.  MMPB, 181 pages including Glossary and About the Author.  Unread copy; light edge and cover wear; tight binding; old water mark along lower edge of rear wrap and bottom margins of last several pages.  Interior clean and unmarked with lightly tanned pages.  ‘Suddenly there were two Canadian navies.  One was the traditional, pre-war navy, with its top-heavy gold braid and hallowed customs and conventional fighting ships.  The other was created virtually overnight to counter the most deadly menace ever to threaten the Commonwealth – the murderous Nazi U-boat wolf packs of World War II.  And suddenly it had become a new kind of sea war with a new kind of ship – the Corvette – small, battered, and ill-equipped.  And a new kind of sailor – ex-landlubbers who came from Canada’s factories and farms, offices and classrooms, prairies and cities.  Amateurs who had to learn the art of battling a fierce and professional foe.  This is the true saga of those ships and those men – and of the war they fought against all odds.  It is a great epic of Canadian heroism, and of the desperate struggle that sent men to sea to triumph or to die.’ (from rear wrap)