Shadow Divers

Yesterday, I finished reading Shadow Divers by Robert Kurson. This book is a true story about two American ship wreck divers who discover a U-boat and who then have to identify it, though based on their research, there should never have been a U-boat there in the first place, never mind one which crashed. Though the book centers around the discovery and identification of the U-boat, it also provides a very large amount of background information about the most important characters in the story, including a bit about some of the crew members who died. This really added to the story because it made people understand the struggles that the Germans, and all men for that matter, face when going into war. Also, the book gave enough information about scuba diving so you can really understand the risks that the divers were taking to get some identifying object. In fact, at the end of the book when they have already determined which U-boat they are searching in, they are still willing to do crazy things, one of which is one of the original divers unstrapping his scuba tank to get into the electric motor room, where they do find the identification tag for U-869, the U-boat which their research indicated. Overall, this is a very well written book and a great story to have in print. I would recommend this book to almost everyone, but I am certain that history people will really enjoy it.