Veteran journalist and author William Geroux has an aptitude for selecting World War II stories that should have been written decades ago and masterfully crafting them into praiseworthy accounts.
Many lovers of history and World War II devotees knew about the “The Bedford Boys” — those 20 soldiers from Bedford, Virginia, who died on the beaches at D-Day — but Geroux made “The Mathews Men: Seven Brothers and the War Against Hitler’s U-Boats” (2017) another group of Virginia men well-known.
They were merchant mariners who fought and experienced an entirely different kind of World War II battlefield off the United States coast.
Then he wrote “The Ghost Ships of Archangel: The Arctic Voyages that Defied the Nazis” (2019). This was the saga of four Allied ships crossing the Arctic to deliver