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1) U-571
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English
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1942 and Hitler's U-boats have brought war to the United States. On a top-secret assignment, a U.S. Navy captain and his crew must disguise themselves as Nazis and infiltrate a severely damaged Nazi U-boat. Once on board, they are to steal the Nazis' top-secret decoding device and sink the sub before the Germans catch on to what's happening. Their mission is more dangerous and frightening than anything they could have ever imagined, but one which...
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Accelerated Reader
IL: UG - BL: 6.3 - AR Pts: 25
Lexile measure
870L
Language
English
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This bestseller which launched Tom Clancy's career tells the story of the greatest espionage coup in history--the chase to find a Russian missile sub whose mission was so top-secret that only the captain of the vessel was privy to the information.
Author
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
431 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A true story of Cold War espionage and engineering reveals how the CIA and the U.S. Navy, using the involvement of Howard Hughes as a cover story, spent six years and nearly a billion dollars to steal a nuclear-armed Soviet submarine after it sank in the Pacific Ocean.
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
336 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The first complete history of the U-boat war in its entirety, a story which began on the very first day of hostilities in 1939 and did not end until the final torpedo sinking on 7 May 1945. It details the Wehrmacht's disastrous decision to dispatch Dn̲itz's U-boats to the Mediterranean; the actions of U-boats at the extremities of the Eastern Front, where, despite the legendary destruction of the PQ17 convoy, they failed to turn the tide of war;...
Pub. Date
2013
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (approximately 448 min.) : sound, black and white & color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
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