Escape from the Deep

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by Alex Kershaw
narrated by Richard Poe

Genre: Memoir
Age Group: Adult

Book Reference: DIR2191
ISBN: 978 1 4074 2469 9

Duration: 6h 15m (approx.) on 5 CDs

Publication Date: August 2008

Price: £17.99

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By October 1944, the US 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 and 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...
 
 
 

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