Escape from the Deep by Alex Kershaw
Their submarine was dead, one hundred and eighty feet below the surface of the Pacific Ocean. Somehow they survived. They were tortured and beaten. Somehow they survived. Alex Kershaw has done it again as he brings to life World War II's greatest submarine survival adventure. --James Bradley, author of Flags of Our Fathers and Flyboys In the early morning hours of October 24, 1944, the legendary U.S. Navy submarine Tang was hit by one of its own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface, while the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges. As the air ran out, some of the crew made a daring ascent through the escape hatch. In the end, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived.But the survivors were beginning a far greater ordeal. After being picked up by the Japanese, they were sent to an interrogation camp known as the Torture Farm. When they were liberated in 1945, they were close to death, but they had revealed nothing to the Japanese, including the greatest secret of World War II.
With the same heart-pounding narrative drive that made The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter national bestsellers, Alex Kershaw brings to life this incredible story of survival and endurance.
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Lone Survivor
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Birth
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Where We Stand
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Blind Eye
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Rome
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Dogtripping
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Comet's Tale
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Peter Jennings
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Failure Is Not an Option
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Apple Pie
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Alex Kershaw has worked as a contributing editor at GQ and a feature writer for The Weekend Guardian and the Sunday Times. He is the author of the New York Times bestselling wartime histories The Bedford Boys and The Longest Winter, as well as the biographies Jack London: A Life in Blood and Champagne: The Life and Times of Robert Capa.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781410410627 |
| ISBN 10 | 1410410625 |
| Title | Escape from the Deep |
| Author | Alex Kershaw |
| Series | Thorndike Nonfiction |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Thorndike Press |
| Year published | 2008-10-01 |
| Number of pages | 355 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |