The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

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UPC:
9780060932770
Binding:
Paperback
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Publication Date:
3/21/2001
Release Date:
3/6/2001
Author:
Peter Maas
Language:
english
Edition:
Reprint
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On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles Swede Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist, and man of action. In this thrilling true narrative, prize-winning author Peter Maas brings us in the vivid detail a moment-by-moment account of the disaster and the man at its center. Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave? Or had all his pioneering work been in vain?