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Language
English
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A true tale of adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more...
3) U-571
Publisher
Universal Studios
Pub. Date
2000.
Language
English
Description
During World War II, a group of Navy men are sent to steal Enigma (the nazi's top-secret decoding device). When their own ship is destroyed, they must secretly make their way through hostile waters in a severely damaged Nazi U-boat to safety with the device.
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Tells the story of a World War II naval battle that began soon after Pearl Harbor when German U-boats arrived off the American Atlantic coast and began to decimate merchant shipping, focusing on an area of the sea off North Carolina known as the graveyard of the Atlantic.
5) Wolf packs
Publisher
Time-Life
Pub. Date
c1989
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany. Contents: Birth of the "U-boat peril" --A time for aces--Expanding the killing ground--The last, furious gasp.
Author
Publisher
Random House
Pub. Date
[1996-c1998]
Language
English
Description
From the Publisher: :The first volume of Clay Blair's magisterial, highly praised narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II, The Hunters, 1939-1942, described the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. This second and concluding volume, The Hunted, 1942-1945, covers the period when the fortunes of the German Navy were completely reversed, and it suffered...
15) Das boot
Publisher
Columbia TriStar Home Video
Pub. Date
1999
Language
Deutsch
Description
"This is director Wolfgang Petersen's ultimate version of one of the most critically-acclaimed war movies of all time"--Container.
Author
Publisher
Naval Institute Press
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
The story of the German submarine U-505 captured by the U.S. Navy in battle on the high seas and how it was saved from scrapping and put on display to commemorate the thousands of Americans who had been lost at sea during World War II.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery, but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the...