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In the tradition of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in history Advance Praise for Desperate Hours "A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956." ?Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore "Riveting. A vivid reconstruction of the chain of small events leading to a disaster and its impact on a rich cast of characters from a vanished era." ?Neil Hanson, author of The Custom of the Sea…mehr

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In the tradition of Walter Lord's A Night to Remember, a dramatic moment-by-moment account of the greatest peacetime sea rescue in history Advance Praise for Desperate Hours "A stupendous feat of reportage. Goldstein has virtually put us into lifeboats and sent us hurtling into the North Atlantic on the night of July 25, 1956." ?Ron Powers, cowriter, Flags of Our Fathers, and author of Dangerous Water and Tom and Huck Don't Live Here Anymore "Riveting. A vivid reconstruction of the chain of small events leading to a disaster and its impact on a rich cast of characters from a vanished era." ?Neil Hanson, author of The Custom of the Sea
Autorenporträt
RICHARD GOLDSTEIN is an editor and writer for the New York Times, where he has worked since 1980. He is the author of America at D-Day and Mine Eyes Have Seen: A First-Person History of the Events That Shaped America, which was an alternate selection of the Literary Guild. He lives in White Plains, New York.