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"On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible--capturing a German U-Boat. Called Operation Nemo, it was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, one of the greatest achievements of the US Navy and a victory that shortened the duration of the war. Charles Lachman's white-knuckled war saga and thrilling cat-and-mouse game is told through the eyes of the men on both sides of Operation Nemo--German U-Boaters and American heroes like Lieutenant Albert David (""Mustang""), who led the boarding party that took control of U-505, and Chief Motor Machinist Zenon Lukosius (""Zeke""), whose quick thinking saved the day when a hole threatened to sink U-505. Three thousand American sailors participated in this extraordinary adventure, nine ordinary American men channeling extraordinary skill and bravery finished the job, and then, everyone involved breathed not a word of it until after the war was over. In Berlin, the German Kriegsmarine assumed that U-505 had been blown to bits by depth charges. They were unaware that the U-Boat and its secrets, to be used in cracking Nazi coded messages, were now in American hands. They were also unaware that 59 German sailors were imprisoned in a POW camp, until their release in 1946. Following Operation Nemo step-by-step, author Charles Lachman has crafted a deeply researched, fast-paced World War II narrative for the ages."

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Charles Lachman is the author of four previous books: Footsteps in the Snow, The Last Lincolns, A Secret Life, and the crime novel In the Name of the Law. He is the executive producer of the nationally syndicated news magazine, Inside Edition-the enormously popularly source for all things news, information, and politics (Inside Edition is the number one YouTube channel in the genre, beating out the likes of CNN among others). He has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, History, Lifetime, C-Span, Sirius/XM, and other local and national programs. Qarie Marshall is an Earphones Award-winning narrator. He has narrated more than thirty series for the Discovery Channel, TLC, and the BBC, as well as providing the in-flight programming for Virgin Atlantic Airlines and BBC radio plays. He has voiced over eighty video games for the PlayStation and Xbox and was a guest voice on Comedy Central's Drawn Together. He was made an associate artist of the Purple Rose Theatre in 2007.

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