Another Book of the Year winner
From Bookselling This Week:
On April 12, the American Booksellers Association announced that Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII by Robert Kurson (Random House) was the winner of the 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Adult Nonfiction category. The award honors independent booksellers' handselling favorite during the past year, as voted by the owners and staff of ABA member bookstores.
With all the drama and tension of a battle story, journalist Kurson dissects the discovery and identification of a German Type IX U-boat, which lay 230 feet underwater, 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Long thought to have been sunk in waters off Gibralter in 1945, U-869 was found by two recreational scuba divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who were mentored by washed-up former diver Bill Nagle. After a perilous six-year search, which resulted in the deaths of three other divers, the two former rivals became allied in their search for the wreck's provenance, as well as in their desire to contact survivors of the victims. The identification of U-869 forced alterations in the historical record of World War II. Considered in league with Sebastian Unger's Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Shadow Divers combines in-depth research, military history, science, and mystery with heart-thumping adventure.
On April 12, the American Booksellers Association announced that Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII by Robert Kurson (Random House) was the winner of the 2005 Book Sense Book of the Year in the Adult Nonfiction category. The award honors independent booksellers' handselling favorite during the past year, as voted by the owners and staff of ABA member bookstores.
With all the drama and tension of a battle story, journalist Kurson dissects the discovery and identification of a German Type IX U-boat, which lay 230 feet underwater, 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. Long thought to have been sunk in waters off Gibralter in 1945, U-869 was found by two recreational scuba divers, John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, who were mentored by washed-up former diver Bill Nagle. After a perilous six-year search, which resulted in the deaths of three other divers, the two former rivals became allied in their search for the wreck's provenance, as well as in their desire to contact survivors of the victims. The identification of U-869 forced alterations in the historical record of World War II. Considered in league with Sebastian Unger's Perfect Storm and Jon Krakauer's Into Thin Air, Shadow Divers combines in-depth research, military history, science, and mystery with heart-thumping adventure.
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