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The Terrible Hours—1st Ed. & 1st Printing (Signed by Serpico Author Peter Maas)
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Very good
- Seller notes
- Type
- Historical Narrative
- Signed By
- Peter Maas
- Signed
- Yes
- Object Type
- Book
- Narrative Type
- Nonfiction
- Features
- Dust Jacket
- Age Level
- Adults
- Original Language
- English
- Intended Audience
- Adults
- Country/Region of Manufacture
- United States
- Subjects
- Biographies & True Stories
- ISBN
- 9780060194802
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Product Identifiers
Publisher
HarperCollins
ISBN-10
0060194804
ISBN-13
9780060194802
eBay Product ID (ePID)
719617
Product Key Features
Book Title
Terrible Hours : the Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
Number of Pages
272 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Special Interest / Adventure, Military / Naval, Military / General, Military / United States, Ships & Shipbuilding / Submarines, Ships & Shipbuilding / History, Emergency Management, Military
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Travel, Transportation, Technology & Engineering, Biography & Autobiography, History
Format
Hardcover
Dimensions
Item Height
0.9 in
Item Weight
18.6 Oz
Item Length
9.2 in
Item Width
6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
99-027195
Reviews
"A thrilling tale of naval heroism." -- Lisa Ko, author of The Leavers "Each time I pick up Maas, I feel that I have been given a backstage pass to an American moment." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review "Mr. Maas...proves once again there is little he cannot achieve with the written word." -- New York Times Book Review "Peter Maas has given us a suspenseful tale of terror, courage, heroism and American military genius. I couldn't put it down." -- Tom Brokaw "Peter Maas offers insights only the best reporters can unearth." -- Boston Globe "Riveting." -- Vanity Fair "Take a deep breath before diving into this Navy rescue." -- Life magazine "Suspenseful." -- Chicago Tribune "Thrilling...breathlessly written." -- Washington Post "Heroic." -- Washington Post Book World "Gripping." -- New York Times Book Review "A white-knuckle read." -- Publishers Weekly
Dewey Edition
21
TitleLeading
The
Dewey Decimal
910/.916345
Synopsis
On the eve of World War II, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man. In this thrilling true narrative of terror, heroism and courage in the depths of a malevolent ocean, prizewinning author Peter Maas brings us in vivid detail a blow-by-blow account of the disaster and its uncertain outcome. The sub was the Squalus. The man was a U.S. Navy officer, Charles "Swede" Momsen, an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist and man of action. Until his advent, it was accepted that if a submarine went down, her crew was doomed. But Momsen, in the face of an indifferent, often sneering naval bureaucracy, battling red tape and disbelieving naysayers every step of the way, risked his own life again and again against the unknown in his efforts to invent and pioneer every escape and rescue device, every deep-sea diving technique, to save an entombed crew. With the crippled, partially flooded Squalus lost on the North Atlantic floor, Momsen faced his personal moment of truth: Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave? Had all his work been in vain? The legacy of his death-defying probes into our inner space remains with us today, and in this depiction of the perseverance and triumph of the human spirit, Swede Momsen is given his rightful place in the pantheon of true American heroes.
LC Classification Number
VA65.S68M33 1999
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In depth look at early submarine rescue
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