The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History
by By Maas, Peter
Category: History , Military , Naval

On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged into the North Atlantic.  Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived.  While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend upon one man, U.S. Navy officer Charles "Swede" Momsen -- an extraordinary combination of visionary, scientist, and man of action.  In this thrilling true narrative, prize-winning author Peter Maas brings us in the vivid detail a moment-by-moment account of the disaster and the man at its center.  Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave?  Or had all his pioneering work been in vain?