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Kershaw, Alex.
Escape From the Deep :
the epic story of a legendary submarine and her courageous crew /
Alex Kershaw.
[New York :
Da Capo Press,
2008.
xi, 270 p. :
ill., map ;
24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 221-253) and index.
Details the history of the U.S. Navy submarine Tang in the Pacific theater of World War II, the explosion that led to its sinking, the ordeal of its surviving crew members and their capture by the Japanese, followed by months of brutal captivity.
20081104.
Tang (Submarine.)
World War, 1939-1945
Naval operations
Submarine.
World War, 1939-1945
Naval operations, American.
World War, 1939-1945
Pacific Ocean.
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoners and prisons, Japanese.
World War, 1939-1945
Prisoners and prisons, American.
Prisoners of war
Japan.
Prisoners of war
United States.