{"product_id":"9781405990561","title":"Shadow Divers : The True Adventure of Two Remarkable Men Who Solved An Incredible Second World War Mystery by Kurson, Robert","description":"\u003ch3\u003eAuthor: Kurson, Robert\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003ch4\u003eMaritime history\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003ch5\u003ePublished on 13 August 2026 by Penguin Books Ltd in the United Kingdom.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePaperback | 400 pages\u003cbr\u003e128 x 197 x 27 | 278g\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/h5\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA true adventure in which two amateur scuba divers risk everything to solve a great historical mystery - and make history themselvesTHE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER'This book is a work of art' RYAN HOLIDAY'A pulse-quickening real-life thriller' New York Times 'A memorable story, beautifully told' The TimesFor John Chatterton and Richie Kohler, deep wreck diving was more than a sport.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBut in 1991, not even these courageous divers were prepared for what they found 230 feet below the surface, in the frigid waters of the Atlantic: a Second World War German U-boat, its ruined interior a macabre wasteland of twisted metal, tangled wires and human bones.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNo identifying marks were visible. No historian, expert or government had a clue as to which U-boat the men had found, and the official records all agreed that there simply could not be a sunken U-boat and crew there.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the next six years, an elite team of divers embarked on a quest of increasingly perilous diving and painstaking archival research to solve the mystery. Some of them would not live to see its end.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChatterton and Kohler, at first bitter rivals, would be drawn into a friendship that deepened to an almost mystical sense of brotherhood with each other and with the drowned U-boat sailors “ former enemies of their country.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBestselling author Robert Kurson's account of this quest is thrilling, vivid and emotionally complex. It's a story of persistence, ingenuity and a shared obsession.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Book Nook","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":58541480739197,"sku":"9781405990561","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0539\/6525\/8945\/files\/9781405990561.jpg?v=1786796058","url":"https:\/\/www.booknookshop.co.uk\/products\/9781405990561","provider":"The Book Nook","version":"1.0","type":"link"}