WHEN TIME STOOD STILL: The S. S. Dorchester's last heroic night (Signed) de Szymczak, Chester J - 1956

Philadelphia: Dorrance & Co, 1956. First Edition. Hardcover. Collectible Fine/Very Good. 1st printing. Cloth. 109pp. Short presentation to Jack Cory, once editor of the Rhinelander (Wisconsin) Daily News, signed by Szymczak. This is the author's account, using the pseudonym of Johnny Westcott in the text, of his sailing on the troop transport ship, S. S. Dorchester, in early 1943 as a signalman from the States to Greenland. On February 3. a German U-Boat sunk the Dorchester with a loss of 678 men. Szymczak was a surviver and the last portion of the book is about the sinking and his survival. Although a slight book, it is a powerful autobiographical account that draws the reader almost into the waves of the icy North Atlantic. Although found in a number of libraries, it is a rare book and very seldom found. This copy fine in a very good, unclipped dust jacket. Even the 1976 reprint is very difficult to find.