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Durante décadas, un submarino hundido en la bahía de Málaga guardó celosamente todos sus secretos. Hasta que un día a finales de los años noventa, el abogado Antonio Checa sigue el rastro de unas burbujas de gasóleo y localiza los restos del C 3,unsubmarino republicano que yacía en el fondo del mar desde los primeros meses de la Guerra Civil española. Un historiador americano, Willard Frank, descifra en los archivos alemanes la clave de una misión de la Marina nazi que había logradopermanecerenabsoluto secreto: la Operación Úrsula. La reconstrucción del momento político en el que se desenvolvió aquella misión y el papel que jugaba el C-3 en el mapa estratégico de nuestro conflicto civil, nos conducen a un relato apasionante repleto depersonajes extraordinarios.

Checa, a local lawyer, discovered some oily bubbles coming from the bottom of the sea and found out its source: the wreck of the C-3, a Spanish Republican submarine, was lying in the seabed near the Costa del Sol beaches since the beginning of theSpanish Civil War (1936). In the meantime, Willard Frank, an American historian acknowledged as the main expert in naval operations of such event, had been researching in archives world-wide following the track of a mission successfully kept intotalsecrecy by the Kriegsmarine, the German Nazi Navy, since 1936: the Operation Ursula. Witnesses, historians, veterans of the Spanish and German navies, support the research of Frank and Checa to reveal the truth of this submerged story: the firstcombatmission of Hitler’s Navy, a rehearsal in Spanish waters of the u-boots that would soon become famous in World War II. And, above all of them, with their untouched memories, the relatives of those 37 crewmembers who “disappeared” on December 12th1936and whose story was never talked again… till now.