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  The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea

  by Sebastian JUNGER

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  The Perfect Storm : A True Story of Men Against the Sea

  by Sebastian Junger

  October 1991. It was "the perfect storm"--a tempest that may happen only once in a century--a nor'easter created by so rare a combination of factors that it could not possibly have been worse. Creating waves ten stories high and winds of 120 miles an hour, the storm whipped the sea to inconceivable levels few people on Earth have ever witnessed. Few, except the six-man crew of the Andrea Gail , a commercial... (more)
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  The Terrible Hours: The Greatest Submarine Rescue in History

  by Peter Maas

  On the eve of World War II, the Squalus, America's newest submarine, plunged to the bottom of 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. In this... (more)