Photo © Margaret Turner White 2021

About the authors

DAVID FAIRBANK WHITE studied history at Harvard and worked as a reporter for the New York Times. He has written for national magazines, including Fortune, New York, Parade and Reader’s Digest.


MARGARET STANBACK WHITE received her BA from Harvard. Following a career as a research scientist, she began to freelance as a researcher and editor on nonfiction book projects about scientific breakthroughs and how they have changed the course of history.

Other books by David Fairbank white

Bitter ocean

THE BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC, 1939 – 1945

Bitter Ocean is a masterful, authoritative account of perhaps the least-known major battle of World War II, the Battle of the Atlantic. British, Canadian, and American air and sea forces fought the German U-boats in this desperate battle, and prevailed—at a terrible cost.

Buy now

True Bearing

A NOVEL

In True Bearing, David Fairbank White has written a profoundly moving novel of human will which permits us to enter two romantic territories of urban scene, the harbor and the newsroom; he has also conjured up an enduring story of youth and inner expedition. True Bearing is a triumph of story telling delivered in keenly observed detail and scene.