Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
by Alex Kershaw

Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew
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Author: Alex Kershaw
Edition: Hardcover
Published: 2008-04-28
ISBN: 0306815192
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Da Capo Press

Book Reviews of Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

Book Review: Great story, good book!
Summary: 4 Stars

This is a very good book that tells a great story. It is engrossing and draws the reader in from the beginning by painting a compelling portrait of the USS Tang in general and of the U.S. Submarine service specifically. They are portrayed as the miracle workers of their age.

Still the book comes up short in several areas. We don't learn as much about the Tang's patrols before the final patrol. If we learned more about the other patrol the book would have been much more compelling. We are also rushed through the crew's time in the POW camps in Japan. These do a disservice to what could be an amazing book. But rest assured, the book is very much worth the read!

Summary of Escape from the Deep: A Legendary Submarine and Her Courageous Crew

By October, 1944, the U.S. Navy submarine Tang was legendary-she had sunk more enemy ships, rescued more downed airmen, and pulled off more daring surface attacks than any other Allied submarine in the Pacific. And then, on her fifth patrol, tragedy struck-the Tang was hit by one of her own faulty torpedoes. The survivors of the explosion struggled to stay alive in their submerged “iron coffin” one hundred-eighty feet beneath the surface. While the Japanese dropped deadly depth charges, just nine of the original eighty-man crew survived a harrowing ascent through the escape hatch. But a far greater ordeal was coming. After being picked up by a Japanese patrol vessel, they were sent to a secret Japanese interrogation camp known as the “Torture Farm.” They were close to death when finally liberated in August, 1945, but they had revealed nothing to the Japanese-not even the greatest secret of World War II.

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