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1) Dive!: World War II stories of sailors & submarines in the Pacific

Author

Hopkinson, Deborah

Pub. Date

2016.

Physical Desc

367 pages : illustrations, map ; 22 cm.

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The story of America's little known war-within-a war -- that of the "silent service" -- U.S. submarine warfare during World War II.

2) The sinking of the Laconia

Pub. Date

2012

Physical Desc

2 videodiscs (171 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.

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In September 1942 at the height of the battle for the Atlantic, a German U-boat torpedoed the RMS Laconia, sinking the British ship without knowing that it carried more than 2,000 passengers, many of them civilians. What followed is a harrowing true story of heroism, heartbreak, and unexpected humanity in the midst of the bloodiest conflict in history.