So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II by Alison O'Leary, Michael J. Tougias

So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II

Alison O'Leary, Michael J. Tougias

352 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction history emotional slow-paced

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On May 19, 1942 a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles away from New Orleans. Captained by 29-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with fifty-nin...

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