Mark Rascovich (1918-1976) was born in San Francisco, California. He lived in Europe from the time he was two years old until he was twenty-one. He attended schools in Germany, England, Sweden and Paris, and was graduated from the Sorbonne. His World War II service included three years as a reconnaissance pilot in the Alaskan and African theaters and concluded with transport duty on the North Atlantic. After the war, he was engaged in ocean towing, salvage work, marine research and writing. Mr. Rascovich traveled throughout Europe and the Americas, the Near East and Africa. He held pilot licenses for land and sea aircraft and for watercraft. His naval fiction novel, The Bedford Incident, was made into a film in 1965 starring Richard Widmark and Sidney Poitier.
Modern Era Naval Fiction |
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| The Bedford Incident | American destroyer on the track of a Soviet submarine | |