Codename Nemo : the hunt for a Nazi U-boat and the elusive Enigma machine
(2024)
By:
Lachman, Charles
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
940.54293/LACHMAN,C
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Diversion Books, 2024
©2024
©2024
EDITION
First Diversion Books edition
DESCRIPTION
xxii, 328 pages, 11 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781635768718, 1635768713 :, 1635768713, 9781635768718
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
On June 4, 1944, the course of World War II was forever changed. That day, a US Navy task force achieved the impossible--capturing German U-boat U-505. 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