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Paperback So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II Book

ISBN: 1681774321

ISBN13: 9781681774329

So Close to Home: A True Story of an American Family's Fight for Survival During World War II

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On May 19, 1942, a U-boat in the Gulf of Mexico stalked its prey fifty miles from New Orleans. Captained by twenty nine-year-old Iron Cross and King's Cross recipient Erich Wurdemann, the submarine set its sights on the freighter Heredia with sixty-two souls on board. Most aboard were merchant seamen, but there were also a handful of civilians, including the Downs family: Ray and Ina, and their two children, eight-year-old Sonny and eleven-year-old...

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