An edition of So close to home (2016)

So close to home

a true story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II

First Pegasus Books cloth edition.

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So close to home
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An edition of So close to home (2016)

So close to home

a true story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II

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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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English
Pages
238

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Subjects
Submarine, Naval operations, Survival at sea, Shipwreck survival, World War, 1939-1945, World war, 1939-1945, biography
People
Downs family
Places
Gulf of Mexico
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So close to home: a true story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II
2016
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Table of Contents

A tired old workhorse
Ina and the South American venture
Admiral Dönitz and his Grey Wolves
Harro Schacht and U-507
The Grey Wolves and the Mississippi
Moving ever closer
Denied a safe port
An uneasy feeling
Torpedoes in the night
The raft
A most hopeless night
Dawn
Desperation
Running out of time
The shrimp boat and a surprise
Ina
Lucille
Triumphant return to Lorient
Morgan City and the hospital
The Laconia: a sinking and a rescue
Spies, duty, and the turning of the battle tide
Passages so far from home
Sonny.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228).

Other Titles
True story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
940.545/1
Library of Congress
D744 .T58 2016, D744.T58 2016

The Physical Object

Pagination
xi, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates
Number of pages
238

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL27211926M
ISBN 10
1681771306
ISBN 13
9781681771304
OCLC/WorldCat
948520404

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