Terrible Hours

<p><strong>A suspenseful tale of terror courage heroism and American military genius. I couldn't put it down. -- Tom Brokaw</strong></p><p><strong>The #1 <em>New York Times</em> bestselling epic of nautical heroism and an immensely exciting tale of submarine disaster and man pitted against nature</strong></p><p>On the eve of World War II the Squalus America's newest submarine plunged into the North Atlantic. Miraculously thirty-three crew members still survived. While their loved ones waited in unbearable tension on shore their ultimate fate would depend upon one man U.S. Navy officer Charles Swede Momsen--an extraordinary combination of visionary scientist and man of action. </p><p>In this thrilling true narrative prize-winning author Peter Maas brings us in the vivid detail a moment-by-moment account of the disaster and the man at its center. Could he actually pluck those men from a watery grave? Or had all his pioneering work been in vain?</p>