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On June 15, 1942, as a large number of vacationers lounged in sunlight on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of engine oil tankers steaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the very next day, three ships lay in the bottom of the channel, subjects of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his staff on the German submarine U-701. In The Burning up Shoreline, acclaimed armed service reporter Ed Offley reveals a thrilling accounts of Degen's rampage over the American seacoast and of US Lieutenant Harry J. Kane's search to bring him down. Since the start of 1942, German U-boats acquired prowled the waters of the Atlantic, sinking merchant ships and threatening to sever the lifeline of supplies flowing from america to THE UK. However when Kane and his staff noticed the silhouette of U-701 offshore that summer season, the ensuing clash signaled a critical making point in the Challenge of the Atlantic - and the start of an unlikely friendship between the two rival commanders. A gripping story of heroism and sacrifice, TheBurning Shoreline represents how a little music group of mariners and aviators drove Hitler's wolf packages from America's home waters.

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