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Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Harpercollins
Published: Aug 2000
Genre: History - Military - Naval
Retail Price: $6.99
Pages: 309
On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of 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 account, prize-winning author Peter Maas vividly re-creates 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?
This book is worth every minute of a reader's time. Read this book if given the chance!