Duel in the Deep (eBook)

The Hunters, the Hunted, and a High Seas Fight to the Finish

David L. Sears (Autor)

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2023
376 Seiten
Naval Institute Press (Verlag)
978-1-68247-561-4 (ISBN)

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In Autumn 1943 the Battle of the Atlantic, World War II's longest seagoing campaign, reached a new crescendo. Anti-submarine aircraft and ships using new tactics, technologies, and weaponry dominated a seascape where German U-boats once ruled supreme. But then unexpectedly, in eerie, mid-ocean darkness, an elemental hull-to-deck, sailor-to-submariner duel erupted. On Halloween Eve, U.S. Navy destroyer Borie, an outmoded, thin-skinned ';tin can' of World War I vintage, set out alone to track down an elusive U-boat. Borie had thus far toiled in the war's backwaters, her crew of young reservists anxious to prove its mettle. When Borie trapped U-405 on the surface, that chance arrived. As Borie's deck guns unleashed withering fire and U-405's skipper angled his submarine to launch torpedoes, Borie's young skippera salesman in civilian life--resorted to the original (and once the only) means of sinking a submarine: ramming, full speed ahead, consequences be damned. Borie's slashing collision with U-405 ignited a swashbuckling, no-holds-barred brawl of cannons, machine guns, small arms, and even knives and spent shell casings. In the wreckage-strewn aftermath, desperate sailors on both sides fought for survival in a heaving, frigid, unforgiving sea. Duel in the Deep weaves together high-stakes strategy and lethal gamesmanship with poignant human backstories, pounding air/surface/subsurface action, epic heroism, and wrenching sacrifice. A former U.S. Navy officer and ';tin can' veterannow a seasoned, widely published and highly acclaimed military historianportrays a rousing high-seas showdown reminiscent of fighting in the age of sail.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.9.2023
• Zusatzinfo: 4 Maps, 45 B-W Photos
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Militärgeschichte
• Schlagworte: Arnold Jay Buster Isabell • Baltimore Battalion • Battle of the Atlantic • Group Leuthen • Hunter Killer Group • Lt. Cdr Charles H. Hutchins • U-405 • US Navy Tenth Fleet • USS Borie
• ISBN-10: 1-68247-561-1 / 1682475611
• ISBN-13: 978-1-68247-561-4 / 9781682475614