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Title: Under Pressure: The Final Voyage of Submarine S-5 by A. J. Hill ISBN: 0-7432-3677-7 Publisher: Free Press Pub. Date: August, 2002 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.64 (11 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Action, adventure, heroism ... and true
Comment: Eighty years before the ill-fated Soviet submarine Kursk sank, killed its entire crew, and inspired a major movie, another sub full of American sailors faced certain death on the floor of the Atlantic Ocean. But the resourceful crew of the U.S. Navy's S-Five didn't suffer the same fate as the Kursk's crew. And their story is recounted in vivid detail in "Under Pressure."
"No matter how dire and hopeless things may seem," Hill says, "life is worth fighting for."
His book is a remarkable story of true heroism in a time of heroes.
Rating: 5
Summary: A.J. Hill puts you in the sunken sub with the crew
Comment: This incredible story, which I'd never heard about before, took place in 1920 in a fairly primitive submarine (by today's standards). However, I believe it remains the only instance where the entire crew of a sunken sub was rescued. Lt. Commander Savvy Cook is as cool and calm and as great a leader of men in dire straits... Since they all survived, wrote letters, articles, and left a good first person record through official Navy records, Hill is able to place the reader on board the S-5 alongside with Savvy Cooke and his men. It is as gripping as any story of survival and rescue--think of how we all reacted to the recent rescue of the 9 trapped coal miners in PA. As exciting as any submarine or naval story ever written,... I can't recommend this book enough--this book is a gem. There's even an unbelievable photo of the stern of the S-5 sticking out of the water.
Rating: 4
Summary: Very Good Story
Comment: I've read tons of submarine storys and prefer the true ones over the fiction so this one already had a plus. The men of the S-5 should have counted their blessing everyday to have gotten out with their lives. Imagine trying to drill through the hull of a sub with a hand drill? not to mention all the other trouble they were faced with, WOW. Very good story that'll keep your attention from front to back, and great photos to go along with it.
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Title: Lost Subs by Spencer Dunmore, Jonathan Blair, Brian Skerry ISBN: 0306811405 Publisher: DaCapo Press Pub. Date: 01 October, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: A Time to Die : The Untold Story of the Kursk Tragedy by Robert Moore ISBN: 0609610007 Publisher: Crown Pub. Date: 14 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $25.00 |
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Title: Dark Waters: An Insider's Account of the NR-1, the Cold War's Undercover Nuclear Sub by Lee Vyborny, Don Davis ISBN: 0451207777 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: 07 January, 2003 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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Title: Hostile Waters by Peter Huchthuasen, Igor Kurdin, R. Alan White ISBN: 0312966121 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 15 August, 1998 List Price(USD): $6.99 |
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Title: Rising Tide: The Untold Story of the Russian Submarines That Fought the Cold War by Gary E. Weir, Walter J. Boyne ISBN: 0465091121 Publisher: Basic Books Pub. Date: 14 October, 2003 List Price(USD): $26.00 |
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