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Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunion

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Peter F. Stevens' Fatal Dive

Fatal Dive: Solving the World War II Mystery of the USS Grunionby Peter F. Stevens reveals the incredible true story of the search for and discovery of theUSS Grunion. Discovered in 2006 after a decades-long, high-risk search by the Abele brothers—whose father commanded the submarine and met his untimely death aboard it—one question remained: what sank theUSS Grunion? Was it a round from a Japanese ship, a catastrophic mechanical failure, or something else—one of the sub’s own torpedoes? For almost half the war, submarine skippers’ complaints about the MK 14 torpedo’s dangerous flaws were ignored by naval brass, who sent the subs out with the defective weapon.Fatal Diveis the first book that documents the entire saga of the ship and its crew and provides compelling evidence that theGrunionwas a victim of “The Great Torpedo Scandal of 1941-43.”Fatal Divefinally lays to rest one of World War II’s greatest mysteries.

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Peter F. Stevens

Peter F. Stevens, New York Times bestselling author and news and features editor of Boston Irish Magazine, is a veteran journalist with a specialty in historical writing. His work has been syndicated by the New York Times and has been published in dozens of magazines and newspapers. Stevens has published fourteen books and is also a two-time winner of the International Regional Magazine Association’s Gold Medal for Feature Writing. His award-winning book The Voyage of the Catalpa: A Perilous Journey and Six Irish Rebels’ Escape to Freedom was also the chief historical resource for the PBS documentary “Irish Escape.” Publishers Weekly raved that in The Voyage of the Catalpa “…truth may routinely be stranger than fiction, but seldom is it as suspenseful as this story of the 1876 rescue of six Irish rebels from Britain's infamous prison colony in Fremantle, Australia, by the American whaling ship Catalpa.” Stevens lives in Boston, Massachusetts.

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