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The Burning Shore

How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America

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The Burning Shore

By: Ed Offley
Narrated by: Robertson Dean
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On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in the sun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom of the channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on the German submarine U-701.

In The Burning Shore, acclaimed military reporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen's rampage along the American coast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's quest to bring him down. Since the beginning of 1942, German U-boats had prowled the waters of the Atlantic, sinking merchant ships and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from the United States to Great Britain. But when Kane and his crew spotted the silhouette of U-701 offshore that summer, the ensuing clash signaled a critical turning point in the Battle of the Atlantic—and the beginning of an unlikely friendship between the two rival commanders.

A gripping tale of heroism and sacrifice, The Burning Shore describes how a small band of mariners and aviators drove Hitler's wolf packs from America's home waters.

©2014 Ed Offley (P)2014 Blackstone Audio Americas Armed Forces Europe Germany Military Naval Forces United States Submarine U-Boat War Air Force US Air Force Solider
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A well paced catalogue of the strategy of
War on and under the Atlantic Ocean and the incredible bravery of Naval and Merchant Allied souls that ran the Gauntlet of the U boat Wolf Packs. It follows the tactics and actions from the German perspective which is both informative and engrossing.

Fascinating insight

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Very well narrated book by Robertson Dean, on an aspect of the WW2 U Boat campaign on the Eastern Coast of the USA.


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Very well researched and enlightening book

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Very interesting WW2 story about a period when the war with Germany came to the shores of the USA. Brilliant narration.

Little known history

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