"Shadow Voyage is a highly unusual and thrilling page turner, a view from the German side of an event for which both the Royal Navy and Nazis claimed the propaganda high ground. A must read." -Tom Clancy
SHADOW VOYAGE
The Extraordinary Wartime Escape of the Legendary SS Bremen
by Peter Huchthausen
A fast-paced, little-known story of danger at sea on the eve of World War II
On the sweltering evening of August 30, 1939, the German luxury liner S.S. Bremen slipped her moorings on Manhattan’s west side, abandoned all caution (including foghorns, radar, and running lights), and sailed out of New York Harbor, commencing a dramatic escape run that would challenge the rules for unrestricted warfare at sea. Written by naval historian Peter Huchthausen, Shadow Voyage tells the epic adventure of the Bremen’s extraordinary flight to Germany, which became a life-and-death race with British warships and submarines intent on intercepting her. Revealing new details from naval archives, Huchthausen’s riveting narrative captures the great courage and magnanimity of the Royal Navy, the cunning and intricate planning of the Germans, and the tension and ambiguity that preceded the outbreak of World War II.
Captain Peter Huchthausen, U.S. Navy, Retired (Hiram, ME), has had a distinguished career, serving at sea and on land as a Soviet naval analyst and as a naval attaché in Yugoslavia, Romania, and the Soviet Union. His book America's Splendid Little
Wars, A Short History of U.S. Combat Operations from Saigon to Baghdad was
published by Viking Press in 2003, the paper back came out in 2004. His most recent book is Shadow Voyage, The
Extraordinary Wartime Escape of Legendary Liner SS Bremen published by
John Wiley and Sons in April 2005.
