400
700
900
The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
Peter Maas

Issue #0

The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

Harper Paperbacks (Mar 22, 2001)
9780060932770
| Paperback
272 pages | 135 x 203 mm | English
Dewey 910.916345

Genre

  • History
  • Military

Subject

  • Diving Bells
  • Salvage
  • Search And Rescue Operations
  • Submarine Disasters
  • Submarine Disasters/ United States

Plot

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?

Personal

Owner The Book Nook
Location Laredo Center for the Arts
Read
Index 2073
Added Date Sep 22, 2016 00:33:01
Modified Date Sep 22, 2016 00:33:01

Value

Purchased at The Book Nook for $ 2.00