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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: So close to home
    sub title: a true story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II
  title info:
    title: True story of an American family's fight for survival during World War II
  name:
    name part: Tougias, Mike
    name part: 1955-
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: O'Leary, Alison
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: nyu
    date issued: 2016
    copyright date: 2016
    edition: First Pegasus Books cloth edition.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xi, 238 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
  abstract: "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 Lucille. Fast asleep in their berths, the Downs family had no idea that two torpedoes were heading their way. When the ship exploded, chaos ensued--and each family member had to find their own path to survival." --
  table of contents: A tired old workhorse -- Ina and the South American venture -- Admiral Dönitz and his Grey Wolves -- Harro Schacht and U-507 -- The Grey Wolves and the Mississippi -- Moving ever closer -- Denied a safe port -- An uneasy feeling -- Torpedoes in the night -- The raft -- A most hopeless night -- Dawn -- Desperation -- Running out of time -- The shrimp boat and a surprise -- Ina -- Lucille -- Triumphant return to Lorient -- Morgan City and the hospital -- The Laconia: a sinking and a rescue -- Spies, duty, and the turning of the battle tide -- Passages so far from home -- Sonny.
  note: Michael J. Tougias and Alison O'Leary.
  note: Maps on lining papers.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 223-228).
  subject:
    geographic code: nm-----
  subject:
    name:
      name part: Downs family
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
  subject:
    topic: World War, 1939-1945
    topic: Naval operations
    topic: Submarine
  subject:
    topic: Shipwreck survival
    geographic: Mexico, Gulf of
  subject:
    topic: Survival at sea
    geographic: Mexico, Gulf of
  classification: D744 .T58 2016
  classification: 940.545/1
  identifier: 9781681771304
  identifier: 1681771306
  record info:
    record content source: JAI
    record creation date: 160502
    record change date: 20160609134013.0
    record identifier: in00003791359
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng