Escape From the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

Kershaw, Alex

ISBN 10: 0306822288 / ISBN 13: 9780306822285

Published by Da Capo Press, New York, 2008

About this Item

8vo, 270 pp., Signed by the author on the title page.

Seller Inventory # 072359

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Escape From the Deep: The Epic Story of a Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
• Publisher: Da Capo Press, New York
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0306822288
• ISBN 13: 9780306822285
• Binding: hardcover
• Illustrator: Illus. with photos
• Edition: 1st.
• Condition: Fine copy in fine dust jacket
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Nautical & Maritime

About this title

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.

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.