On June 15, 1942, as thousands of vacationers lounged in thesun on Virginia Beach, a massive fireball erupted from a convoy of oil tankerssteaming into Chesapeake Bay. By the next day, three ships lay at the bottom ofthe channel, victims of Lieutenant-Commander Horst Degen and his crew on theGerman submarine U-701.In The Burning Shore, acclaimed militaryreporter Ed Offley presents a thrilling account of Degen’s rampage along theAmerican coas.
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