In a collision with a steamship; City of Rome; on the night of September 25; 1925; the U.S. Navy Submarine S-51 sank in 132 feet of water; taking 33 sailors to the ocean floor. This is the story of the men charged with doing the impossible—raising the thousand ton sub from the bottom of the sea. Added to this modern classic of true adventure are a foreword and afterword giving specifics of the accident and the aftermath; additional photographs; a publisher’s preface; and appendices.
#3334731 in Books 1997-05-29 1997-05-29Original language:EnglishPDF # 1 9.00 x .77 x 6.00l; 1.20 #File Name: 0435074172392 pages
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5 of 8 people found the following review helpful. The saddest trade of allBy Seth J. FrantzmanThis book exposes many parts of the female slave trade in Africa. Here we learn that the Islamic slave trade was made up primarily of women. The book helps to aswer this phenomenon by showing that not only were women used as Sex slaves in North Africa but that women from many traditional east african soceities performed much of the work; thus making them more productive. The questions sourounding the role of women in the slave trade is given a variety of looks. One slave girls narrative tells of how her mother is left to starve by the slave master who subsequently buries the daughter alive. This is the truth of slavery and especially the turth of slavery as it was propogated by Zanzibar in East Africa. Slaves were not 'protected' or treated as human beings; they were simply meat; frequently disgarded along the way when they got sick or seemed weak. This book finally exposes the truth about slavery fcusing on the enslavement of women and the role of women in slave soceities. Above all it shows that many of the African men; despairing of the arab slave caravans who took most of their women; turned to brigandage and joined roving bands of warlords; thus ensuring that Arfican pride would not be darkened by the cruel evils of slavery and its targeting of women by Sexual predators from the middle east and europe.Seth J. Frantzman
