Robert Kurson's 2004 account of two New Jersey divers who discovered a WWII German U-boat 60 miles off the American coast in 1991 — their obsessive quest to identify it — one of the most gripping narrative nonfiction books.
Creates the definitive amateur deep-sea discovery narrative — Shadow Divers interweaves the divers' dangerous technical diving obsession with WWII history to produce the most compelling unknown-submarine narrative in print.
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