Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay, that sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family of U.S. merchant mariners, who suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the coastal United States in 1942. It shows us the war far beyond traditional battlefields, but also takes us to the landing beaches at D-Day and to the Pacific. Here, finally, is the heroic story of those merchant seamen, recast as the human story of the men from Mathews.