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The burning shore, how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America, Ed Offley

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The burning shore, how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America, Ed Offley

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eng

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Main title

The burning shore

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Oclc number

873816765

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Ed Offley

Sub title

how Hitler's U-boats brought World War II to America

Summary

On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701.In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J..

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adult

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