copyright 1961; Historical Consultant: Captain William R. Anderson, U.S.N.; Illustrated by Frank Vaughn; Grosset & Dunlap publishers, New York; very good condition with unmarked pages; no dust jacket.
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Historical Setting: 1958
"Nautilus 90 North!" To the United States Navy these three words meant victory. For the first time in the history of naval exploration, a submarine—a nuclear-powered submarine—had reached the North Pole. To Steve Kranik and Ted Borden, young crewmen on the atomic submarine Nautilus, these three words meant: "We made it!"
To Ted and Steve, just being on a submarine was the most wonderful thing in the world. The two friends had long waited for the day when they could join the United States Navy—and now they were on the famous $100,000,000 Nautilus.
And the Nautilus was on her way, her identifying number painted over, her destination TOP SECRET—and all along her route, she was going to have to remain undetected...
The We Were There books -
are a series of historical novels written for children. The series consists of 36 titles, first released between 1955 and 1963 by Grosset & Dunlap. Each book in the series is a fictional retelling of an historical event, featuring one or more children as primary characters. The books were written by a number of different authors, each writing from one to seven of the books; the authors included Benjamin Appel, Jim Kjelgaard, Earl Schenck Miers, William O. Steele, and others. Each book's byline also lists a separate "historical consultant," who was ostensibly a specialist in the historic topic covered by that particular book. The historical consultants were typically college professors or, in the case of war-related stories, retired military officers; among the more noteworthy consultants for the series were the historians Bruce Catton, Walter Prescott Webb and A. B. Guthrie, Jr.. The books are illustrated with black-and-white line art, with color drawings on the dust jackets.