Shadow Voyage
Subtitle: The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen
Publisher: Wiley
Published: March 16, 2005
Language: eng
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780471457589
First sentence: A young seaman stood on Bremerhaven's Columbus Quay early one August morning in 1939, gazing up at Bremen's graceful bow.
Description: "On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of New York Harbor, commencing a dramatic escape run that would challenge the rules for unrestricted warfare at sea. Written by navel historian Peter Huchthausen, Shadow Voyage tells the epic adventure of the Bremen's extraordinary flight to Germany, which became a life-and-death race with British warships and submarines intent on intercepting her.

Revealing new details from naval archives, Huchthausen's narrative captures the great courage and magnanimity of the Royal Navy, the cunning and intricate planning of the Germans, and the tension and ambiguity that preceded the outbreak of World War II."--Jacket.