“For millions of people everywhere, World War II had moments, hours, days of horror and terror. For Captain Charles McVay and his crew, their five days in the ocean, where they were ripped apart by sharks, were gruesome and terrible almost beyond description. But after painstaking research and a brilliant use of oral history, Doug Stanton has told the tale. He writes carefully and judiciously, with a sense of timing and an eye for the right detail, to make this the most frightening book I’ve ever read.”
–Stephen E. Ambrose, author of Band Of Brothers