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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 8.6 - AR Pts: 20
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On May 1, 1915, a luxury ocean liner as richly appointed as an English country house sailed out of New York, bound for Liverpool, carrying a record number of children and infants. The passengers were anxious. Germany had declared the seas around Britain to be a war zone, and for months, its U-boats had brought terror to the North Atlantic. But the Lusitania was one of the era's great transatlantic "Greyhounds" and her captain, William Thomas Turner,...
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Pub. Date
[2016]
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Mathews County, Virginia, is a remote outpost on the Chesapeake Bay with little to offer except unspoiled scenery, but it sent an unusually large concentration of sea captains to fight in World War II. The Mathews Men tells that heroic story through the experiences of one extraordinary family whose seven sons (and their neighbors), U.S. merchant mariners all, suddenly found themselves squarely in the cross-hairs of the U-boats bearing down on the...
Author
Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 21
Description
A true tale of adventure in which two weekend scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery and make history themselves. For John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport. Testing themselves against treacherous currents, braving depths that induced hallucinatory effects, navigating through wreckage as perilous as a minefield, they pushed themselves to their limits and beyond, brushing against death more...
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Pub. Date
c2005
Description
A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II. On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan's west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of New York Harbor, commencing a dramatic escape run that would challenge the rules for unrestricted warfare at sea. Written by naval historian Peter Huchthausen,...
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Pub. Date
c1989
Description
Tells the story of a World War II naval battle that began soon after Pearl Harbor when German U-boats arrived off the American Atlantic coast and began to decimate merchant shipping, focusing on an area of the sea off North Carolina known as the graveyard of the Atlantic.
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Pub. Date
[1996-c1998]
Description
From the Publisher: :The first volume of Clay Blair's magisterial, highly praised narrative history of the German submarine war against Allied shipping in World War II, The Hunters, 1939-1942, described the Battle of the Atlantic waged first against the British Empire and then against the Americas. This second and concluding volume, The Hunted, 1942-1945, covers the period when the fortunes of the German Navy were completely reversed, and it suffered...
20) Wolf packs
Pub. Date
c1989
Description
Chronicles the rise and eventual fall of Nazi Germany. Contents: Birth of the "U-boat peril" --A time for aces--Expanding the killing ground--The last, furious gasp.
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