During World War il, German U-Boats were sinking Allied ships faster than they could be replaced. If supplies did not reach Eu-rope, Hitler could win World War II. Desperate situations called for desperate measures and an ingenious idea by Admiral King-the creation of a phantom fleet-helped win the battle of the Atlantic. The Tenth Fleet was merely a handful of men with nothing more than brainpower to face the Nazi submarines. AT NO TIME DID THEY HAVE A SINGLE SHIP UNDER THEIR COMMAND, yet they could detach any ship from duty anywhere, anytime. Here are the long, tense sea chases, they Navy heroes, the embattled crews fighting the bitter Atlantic and the deadly subma-rines. The author was one of those men. Ladislas Farago wrote the bestsellers PATTON and TORA TORA. Both became successful movies.