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Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of World War II

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Michael Prichard

15 Hours 41 Minutes

Random House (Audio)

March 2004

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In 1991, acting on a tip from a local fisherman, two scuba divers discovered a sunken German U-boat–complete with its crew of 60 men–not too far off the New Jersey coast. The divers, realizing the momentousness of their discovery, began probing the mystery. Over the next six years, they became expert and well-traveled researchers, taught themselves German, hunted for clues in Germany, and constructed theories corrective of the history books, all in an effort to identify this sunken U-boat and its crew. During that time, three of their colleagues died exploring the wreck, including a father and son team. In 1997, when it all seemed in vain, the two divers came up with a final plan, so dangerous that the book ends with this last dive.

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  • Nathan S.

    Great read that keeps you coming back for more.

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  • Adam Geisler

    I get that he was trying to capture the flavor of real people who really were characters, but I think the F word outnumbered any other "descriptive" word. Would've been great without it.

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  • Samantha A.

    As a fellow diver, I really enjoyed this book! It made me further appreciate deep divers and wreck divers alike. Very interesting. Kept you hooked until the end!

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  • Albert

    This is a story of serious, dangerous adventure. Courage and the spirit of adventure are alive and well in at least a few of us. I think James Weddell, Theodore Roosevelt, Amelia Earhart, and Admiral Byrd were looking down from heaven and smiling as these men discovered and researched the wreck of an old war machine. We benefit from a well-written documentary that is expertly narrated on this recorded book.

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  • Liz B

    I don't read a lot of nonfiction, so it has to be pretty good for me to get all the way through it. This audiobook definitely held my interest all the way through; not only is it interesting from a historical perspective, the writer does a nice job fleshing out the "characters" so that I really connected with them and understood WHY they were doing what they did.

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  • Anonymous

    Outstanding! This book was thrilling to listen to.

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  • Mary

    This book was better than I thought it would be. There was some back and forth going from past to present but fairly easy to follow with a minimal of characters. I found myself pulling into the garage and sitting there still listening to the book not wanting to turn it off!

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  • Anonymous

    A truly remarkable book that is masterfully read by Campbell Scott! This story is an amazing real life adventure involving history, its recordation, our need to know the truth and to honor those who lived it. I simply could not recommend this book more.

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  • John C Hagan MD

    This book is a masterpiece and compares with any of the great true life thrillers (Into Thing Air, The Perfect Storm). It is so engrossing that I sat in the garage for a hour before I found a point where I could leave the narrative and go into the house. This book was recommended to me by a physician that is a voracious reader. He told me that he had over 10 friends that called him to thank him for his enthusiastic recommendation. I am making the same enthusiastic endorsement to you.

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  • Tom Watrous

    Of all the cd's I have listened to in the last several years, this is the best. What an amazing story. Fast paced, well read....a fantastic and dangerous adventure. Wreck divers seem to have the same drive that leads others to climb Mt. Everest....and it's just as dangerous. I can't say enough good things about this book.

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