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"On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued--and each family member had to find their own path to survival." --
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Submarine, Naval operations, Survival at sea, Shipwreck survival, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, biographyPeople
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So close to home: a true story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II
2016
in English
- First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
1681771306 9781681771304
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228).
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