{"product_id":"book-ac6i","title":"All Brave Sailors","description":"In the darkness before moonrise on the Atlantic Ocean off the African coast on August 21, 1940, the night erupted in a fusillade of bullets and shells. The victim was a stalwart English tramp steamer, \u003ci\u003eAnglo Saxon,\u003c\/i\u003e part of the lifeline that was keeping besieged England in supplies. The attacker was the \u003ci\u003eWidder\u003c\/i\u003e, a German surface raider disguised as a merchant ship from a neutral country. \u003cp\u003eAs it neared its prey, the German raider dropped its disguise, unmasked its hidden armament and destroyed the target ship with an overwhelming force. Only seven of the forty-one man crew of \u003ci\u003eAnglo Saxon\u003c\/i\u003e managed to escape in a small boat. Seventy days later two of them stumbled ashore in the Bahamas, half dead.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis riveting account of the sailors' ordeal reveals how first the badly wounded and then the less strong died and were thrown over the side of a fragile boat carrying meager supplies. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs the two survivors reached the Bahamas, the \u003ci\u003eWidder\u003c\/i\u003e arrived in occupied France, her murderous voyage over. Her captain, Hellmuth von Ruckteschell, who had sunk twenty-five ships, was eventually tried as a war criminal. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eAll Brave Sailors\u003c\/i\u003e -- a story of heroism, brutality, and survival -- tells the story of merchant marine ships fighting against great odds in the early days of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Simon \u0026 Schuster Audio","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49348291920176,"sku":"BDac6i","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/98951-ac6i-Square.jpg?v=1734219596","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-ac6i","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}