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  • How Hitler's U-Boats Brought World War II to America
  • Written by: Ed Offley
  • Narrated by: Robertson Dean
  • Length: 7 hrs and 18 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (3 ratings)

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Written 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
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Armed Forces Wars & Conflicts Germany United States
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Touching Ending

This book starts out as a general overview of German U-boat operations in the early days of the war off the coast of America but hones in on the stories of an American Airman and a German U-Boat captain. Worth a listen!

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Submarines on North American shores

There isn’t a lot that has been written about German submarines off the shores of North America during World War II, and many are blissfully unaware of this activity. The Burning Shore brings this history to life with lots of details about real events. You will probably be surprised on more than one occasion!

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