by Alex Kershaw.

New York: Da Capo Press, 2008.

First edition, first printing.

First printing number code sequence 1 through 10 to the copyright page, $26 to the jacket's flap.

SIGNED to the title page by the documentary filmmaker and screenwriter, journalist, military historian, and author of THE LONGEST WINTER.

Illustrated with photos on glossy b&w plates.

A detailed account of the successful WWII navy submarine USS Tang and her crew, starting with when the sub was disastrously sunk in 1944 and the remaining survivors had to escape from their iron coffin under water only to be taken as POWs to a Japanese interrogation camp dubbed the 'Torture Farm', until their release in 1945.

Fine, fresh, tight and square in textured deep-blue over smooth blue boards with metallic-blue embossed titles to the spine, blue-and-white headband and tail-band; in a fine dust jacket; original printed $26.00 price to the front inner flap.

 NO remainder mark.

Octavo; 270 pages; notes; bibliography; index.

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