by Peter Maas · HarperTorch · libro de bolsillo · ISBN 9780061014598
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«The Terrible Hours» is Peter Maas's historical chronicle published by HarperTorch in paperback (320 pages, in English).
On the eve of World War II, the American submarine Squalus sinks in the North Atlantic with part of its crew trapped alive. Peter Maas reconstructs the rescue and the figure of officer Charles 'Swede' Momsen, a pioneer of submarine salvage, in a race against time.
The book carries the subtitle «The Man Behind the Greatest Submarine Rescue in History» and is a 2000 reprint.
For readers of military and naval history, interested in World War II and true stories of survival and rescues.
Peter Maas was an American journalist and author. He was born in New York City and attended Duke University. Maas had Dutch and Irish ancestry.
