Escape from the Deep [special reprint edition / WWII Museum]: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew - Hardcover

Kershaw, Alex

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0306822288 ISBN 13: 9780306822285

Publisher: Grand Central Publishing, 2012

Synopsis

By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy struck-the Tang was hit by one of her own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive in their submerged “iron coffin” one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface. While the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived a harrowing ascent through the escape hatch. But a far greater ordeal was coming. After being picked up by a Japanese patrol vessel, they were sent to a secret Japanese interrogation camp known as the “Torture Farm.” They were close to death when finally liberated in August, 1945, but they had revealed nothing to the Japanese-not even the greatest secret of World War II.

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About the Author

Alex Kershaw is the author of the widely acclaimed bestsellers The Bedford Boys, The Longest Winter, The Few, and Escape from the Deep, among others. He lives in Massachusetts.

Edition details

• Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
• Publication date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306822288
• ISBN 13: 9780306822285
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 288