Sea of Sharks: A Sailor's World War II Survival Story

By Issam Abu-Mahfouz

Book Overview

Caught off Okinawa in the fiercest typhoon in history at the end of World War II. Elmer Renner, then a young officer aboard a US minesweeper, recounts the horror of his ship sinking. Renner and eight other sailors clung to a small raft for days, battling thirst, hunger, shark attacks and, eventually, madness. Renner and co-author Ken Birks describe the men's panic as distant ships seemingly ignore their desperate calls, the sea turning blood red when one of the men loses his life to a shark, and how another slips silently away into the unforgiving Pacific. This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 159114714X
• ISBN13: 9781591147145
• Release Date: December 2013
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.0" x 8.0"