Shadow Divers: The True Adventure of Two Americans Who Risked Everything to Solve One of the Last Mysteries of WWII, by Robert Kurson (HC, 2004, $3)
In 1991 two deep wreck divers found a WWII German U-boat 230 feet below the surface and 60 miles off the coast of New Jersey. How did it get there? All the official records said there was no sunken U-boat there, but there it was. This is the story of the divers' 6 year attempt to solve the mystery, and to bring closure to the victim's families.
Blind Man's Bluff: The Untold Story of American Submarine Espionage, by Sherry Sontag (HC, 1998, $3)
Big Red: Three Months on Board a Trident Nuclear Submarine, by Douglas Waller (HC, 2001, $3)
Now wouldn't that be just the coolest thing to do, provided of course you didn't suffer from claustrophobia.
The Terrible Hours: The man behind the greatest submarine rescue in history, by Peter Maas (HC, 1999, $3)
"On the eve of WWII, America's newest submarine plunged helplessly to the North Atlantic bottom during a test dive. Miraculously, 33 crew members still survived. While their wives and girlfriends waited in nearly unbearable tension on shore, their ultimate fate would depend on one man... That man was a US Navy officer, Charles "Swede" Momsen."
I haven't read this book, but I have read an earlier book on the "Swede" by the same author. Regardless of which version you read, this is one of the most amazing demonstrations of courage you could ever imagine.
Look for these in the Military history section.
