Adrenaline-quickening tales of adventure and exploration in the depths of the world's high seas.
For decades, readers and filmgoers alike have been drawn to submarine stories. After all, what could be more compelling and irresistible than the drama of human beings locked in steel cocoons, fighting the sea, the enemy, and even themselves? From sea chases, numbing depth-charge attacks, and undersea "wolf packs" stalking their prey, to survival epics, miraculous rescues, and journeys of exploration, these underwater adventures are inherently filled with action, suspense, and vivid portraits of extraordinary skill and courage in the face of agonizing death beneath the waves.
The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told brings together the most engaging and illuminating works of fiction and nonfiction ever written about submarines. Of course, no such story collection would be complete without the bestsellers: Tom Clancy's Cold War drama about the secret defection of a Russian commander in The Hunt for Red October; Robert Kurson's expose of deep sea divers obsessed with sunken U-boats in Shadow Divers; and Captain Edward Beach's classic Run Silent, Run Deep about American subs on the attack in the Pacific. In addition are tales of fantastical voyages, such as Jules Verne's 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. Then there are the magnificent feats of exploration, such as the nuclear sub that surfaced at the North Pole in Nautilus 90 North; and the courage and teamwork used to carry out operations when the odds of success and survival seemed nil in The Boat. Homer Hickam Jr.'s superb account of battles with U-boats off the Atlantic Coast in 1942 in Torpedo Junction is included here, as well asaccounts of famous submarine tragedies such as the losses of America's Thresher and Russia's K-19. Even Civil War buffs will find something here in Raising the Hunley, the story of the Confederate attack boat, which managed to sink the USS Housatonic but never returned to port.
For anyone who like tales brisk with pace and action and the feel of challenging the seven seas, The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told is the perfect book.


For decades, readers and filmgoers alike have found the drama of submarine stories to be compelling and irresistible: men locked in steel cocoons, fighting the sea, the enemy, even themselves. There are sea chases, submarine wolf packs stalking their prey, stunning and numbing depth-charge attacks, survival epics, miraculous rescues, and journeys of exploration. Submarine tales inherently are filled with action, adventure, and vivid portraits of
extraordinary skill and courage in the face of agonizing death beneath the waves.
The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told will bring readers, in a single book, some of the most engaging and illuminating prose ever put on paper about submarines. These twenty tales are not just about torpedo and depthcharge attacks, vivid as those are. They are also about feats of exploration, such as the "Nautilus" nuclear sub surfacing at the North Pole; unusual military feats like the German attack on British ships at Scapa Flow; and the courage and teamwork used to carry out operations when the odds of success and survival seemed nil.
The distinguished works excerpted will include, among others: "Sharks and Little"
"Fish"; Nautilus "90 North"; "Torpedo Junction," Homer Hickam Jr.'s superb account of battles with U-boats off the Atlantic Coast in 1942; and accounts of famous submarine tragedies such as the losses of America's "Thresher" and Russia's "K-19,"
For readers who like tales brisk with pace and action and the feel of challenging
the seven seas, The Greatest Submarine Stories Ever Told will be a much-anticipated new book.