The Finest Hours, Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
The Finest Hours, Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman
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The Finest Hours
The True Story of the U.S. Coast Guards Most Daring Sea Rescue

Author: Michael J. Tougias and Casey Sherman

Narrator: Malcolm Hillgartner

Unabridged: 5 hr 56 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/21/2012


Synopsis

In the winter of 1952, New England was battered by the most brutal noreaster in years. As the weather wreaked havoc on land, the freezing Atlantic became a wind-whipped zone of peril, setting the stage for one of the most heroic rescue stories ever lived. On February 18, while the storm raged, two oil tankers, thePendletonand theFort Mercer,were in the same horrifying predicament. Built with dirty steel, and not prepared to withstand such ferocious seas, both tankers split in two, leaving the dozens of men on board utterly at the Atlantics mercy.The Finest Hoursis the gripping, true story of the valiant attempt to rescue the souls huddling inside the broken halves of the two ships. The spellbinding tale is overflowing with breathtaking scenes, as boats capsize, bows and sterns crash into one another, and men hurl themselves into the raging sea in a terrifying battle for survival. Not all of the eighty-four men caught at sea in the midst of that brutal storm survived, but considering the odds, its a miracleand a testament to their braverythat any at all came home to tell their tales.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jason FitzGerald on July 28, 2014

This feels like the type of typical "local lore" story that fills small book shops across the Vacationland of Cape Cod. The authors all mean well - - because they have extraordinary history to tell. This is no exception. The tale of near-simultaneous tanker accidents in the middle of a deadly Februa......more

Goodreads review by Scott on November 13, 2017

2.5*'s. If it wasn't for the fact I'm from the region where the story took place and know every single lighthouse, harbor, city, town, road and nearly every building mentioned in detail I'm not sure I would have liked this book at all. It's basically an audio documentary but I've read a lot in this......more

Goodreads review by Amber ☾♥ on April 30, 2018

First off, what an incredibly heart wrenching story. I vaguely remember learning something about this at some point in my life but being completely immersed in every vivid detail of each event made it way more real. Reading something like this, feeling the terror and death surrounding the characters......more

Goodreads review by Corey on January 23, 2018

I thought as an overall this book was pretty good but I definitely think that part 1 was better than part 2. In part 1 it had more action and was better. This is one of the few times that I thought the movie was better tan the book because I saw the movie and I got more out of it like how it would f......more

Goodreads review by Tricia on September 25, 2017

This book is a well-written, easy to read (and listen to) non fiction. The narrator for the audiobook does a really good job, and even though it is non-fiction, it is just as gripping and heart-pounding as a fiction book. I highly recommend this book to anyone with a passing interest in history, esp......more