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Michael J. Tougias

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 Würdemann, 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 t… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-68177-432-9
  • EAN: 9781681774329
  • Produktnummer: 21273298
  • Verlag: Pegasus Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2017
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H22.4 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.0 cm 227 g
  • Gewicht: 227

Über den Autor


Michael Tougias is the author and co-author of twenty-three non-fiction books, including several true survival-at-sea adventures, such as Rescue of the Bounty, Fatal Forecast, Overboard!, A Storm Too Soon, and The Finest Hours (soon to be a major motion picture by Disney). His book Ten Hours Until Dawn was selected as one of the American Library Association's Best Books of the Year.

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