Fatal Dive
by Stevens, Peter F.Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2012-07-30
Publisher(s): Regnery History
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Summary
No radio distress call ever crackled from the USS "Grunion" submarine--in 1942, under the fog of World War II, she simply vanished without a trace. In his new book, Stevens finally lays to rest one of the war's greatest mysteries.
Author Biography
Peter F. Stevens, news and features editor of the Boston Irish Reporter, is a veteran journalist with a specialty in historical writing. His work has been syndicated by the New York Times and has been published in dozens of magazines and newspapers. Stevens is also a two-time winner of the International Regional Magazine Association’s Gold Medal for Feature Writing and the award-winning author of The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels’ Escape to Freedom. He lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
Table of Contents
| The Crew of the USS Grunion | p. ix |
| Prologue | p. xiii |
| "We've Got a Target" | p. 1 |
| An Unconventional Course | p. 7 |
| The Submariner | p. 17 |
| "Into the Thick of Things" | p. 27 |
| Battle Stations | p. 39 |
| The Enemy Awaiting Them | p. 49 |
| A Mysterious Message | p. 57 |
| "As We Waited for the End" | p. 63 |
| "Missing and Presumed Lost" | p. 73 |
| Making Do with Less | p. 83 |
| A Chart, a Clue, and a Chance Meeting | p. 91 |
| Logistics of a Long Shot | p. 99 |
| "We Haven't Seen the Worst of it Yet" | p. 105 |
| "That Looks Like a Sub" | p. 115 |
| "Don't Let Your Desire for This to Be the Right Target Fool You" | p. 127 |
| By Land, Sea, and Air | p. 135 |
| "There She Is" | p. 143 |
| Lost and Found-Again | p. 147 |
| From Bow to Stern | p. 153 |
| "They Wanted to Be Found" | p. 165 |
| Epilogue: There One Moment, Gone the Next | p. 169 |
| Appendix | p. 175 |
| Acknowledgements | p. 233 |
| Notes | p. 237 |
| Selected Bibliography | p. 245 |
| Index | p. 249 |
| Table of Contents provided by Ingram. All Rights Reserved. |
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