This story is about a day in August 1918 when the ocean off Rodanthe, North Carolina was ablaze; the day when 51 British merchant sailors desperately struggled to escape their tanker loaded with gasoline after it had been torpedoed by a German U-boat; the day when six courageous Coast Guardsmen, tossed by waves of fire in a small boat, entered the hellish and deadly inferno of explosions and toxic fumes and navigated a maze of black smoke, imperiling their lives to rescue strangers in distress. It was a day when life-saving history was made. "Bravo Zulu (well done!) to Kevin Duffus for a stirring tale of a famous Coast Guard rescue, while capturing the essence of brave men in a small boat overcoming nearly insurmountable odds at sea. The story of the Mirlo rescue is a fitting tribute to the brave and selfless men and woman of the Coast Guard.” —Admiral Robert Papp, (Ret.), 24th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard "Into the Burning Sea is a superb work! Here’s the full tale of the tanker Mirlo and German submarine U-117, which sank her off Hatteras Island—Duffus masterfully lays out the terrifying August 1918 torpedo attack and the Chicamacomico Coast Guard’s amazing rescue, beat by thrilling beat. Maritime history as thorough, taut and vivid as it gets!” —Bland Simpson, author of The Coasts of Carolina and Into the Sound Country “An absolutely riveting read! Brilliant storyteller, Kevin Duffus, details the day the Great War came to North Carolina. Powerful, compelling and praiseworthy!” —Bill Leslie, WRAL-TV Peabody Award winning journalist