"The TERRIBLE HOURS" The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History. By Peter Maas. On the eve of World War II, America’s newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Young Lieutenant Commander Charles 'Swede' Momsen races to the rescue! Until his advent, it was accepted that if a submarine went down, her crew was doomed. But Momsen, in the face of an indifferent, often sneering naval bureaucracy, battling red tape and disbelieving naysayers every step of the way, risked his own life again and again against the unknown in his efforts to invent and pioneer every escape and rescue device, to save an entombed crew. Miraculously, thirty-three crew members still survived in the stricken sub. Prizewinning author, Peter Maas brings us in vivid detail a blow-by-blow account of the 1939 disaster of the USS Squalus (SS-192) and the subsequent rescue of her trapped crewmen. This book was a "New York Times Bestseller" and later made into a TV movie titled "Submerged." Hardback edition with 309 pages, no photos or index.
Good Cond. --- $12.95
