CODENAME NEMO

The white-knuckled war saga of the US Navy task force who achieved the impossible on June 4, 1944, capturing Nazi submarine U-505, its crew, technology, encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine - the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812 and one that undoubtedly shortened the duration of the war.

On June 4, 1944 - two days before D-Day - a US Navy task force achieved a mission impossible, altering the course of World War II. Captain Daniel Gallery and his men captured German submarine U-505 with all its technology, Nazi encryption codes, and an Enigma cipher machine. It was the first seizure of an enemy ship in battle since the War of 1812, marking one of the great achievements of the US Navy, shortening the duration of the war and saving countless lives.

In CODENAME NEMO author Charles Lachman unveils the stories of the Navy task force, U-505, and their ultimate clash in gripping detail, through deep research offering the perspective of both the Germans and the Americans involved in the seizure. Not one sailor breathed a word of the top-secret seizure. Nothing leaked out. In Berlin, the German Kriegsmarine assumed that U-505 had been blown to bits, with all hands lost at sea. They were unaware that the U-boat and its secrets were now in American hands. The 59 German sailors captured on the high seas were imprisoned in a POW camp in Ruston, Louisiana. Their families in Germany did not know they had survived the war until after the POWs were released in 1946 and finally permitted to return to their homes.

A riveting war tale complete with action on the high seas, a multi-year adventure, compelling American heroes, and an intrepid maverick captain who came up with the audacious scheme and successfully carried it out at great physical and professional risk, CODENAME NEMO also explores the incredible story of World War II encryption, code breaking, and communication technology.

Charles Lachman is the author of four previous books: Footsteps in the Snow: One Shocking Crime, Two Shattered Families, and the Coldest Case in US History; The Last Lincolns: The Rise & Fall of a Great American Family; A Secret Life: The Lies and Scandals of President Grover Cleveland; and the crime novel, In the Name of the Law. He is the executive producer of the nationally syndicated news magazine, Inside Editionthe enormously popular source for all things news, information, and politics. He has been featured on CNN, MSNBC, History, Lifetime, C-Span, and Sirius/XM.