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Burning Shore, The - How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America

By: Basic Books

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Basic Books)


Product Info

Title
Burning Shore, The - How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
Publisher
Category
Author
Ed Offley
Publish Year
2014
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.5x9.5x1"
NKG Part #
2148115568
Type
Hardcover

Description

On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun at Virginia Beach, two massive fireballs erupted just offshore from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. While men, women, and children gaped from the shore, two damaged oil tankers fell out of line and began to sink. Then a small escort warship blew apart in a violent explosion. Navy warships and aircraft peppered the water with depth charges, but to no avail. Within the next twenty-four hours, a fourth ship lay at the bottom of the channel -- all victims of twenty-nine-year-old Kapitäeutnant Horst Degen and his crew aboard the German U-boat U-701.