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Fatal Voyage the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
de Kurzman, Dan
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Librería
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Antheneum, 1990 331 pp with 8 B&W plates. text is clean, tight and unmarked. Maps of voyage on endpapers.Black paper boards with silver-stamped titles are undamaged. Dust jacket has some edgewear. Now in protective mylar.. Hardcover. Near Fine/Very Good. Book Club Edition.
Sinopsis
Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than fifteen minutes and leaving nine hundred crewmen fighting for life in shark-infested waters. They expected a swift, routine rescue, unaware that the Navy high command didn't even realize that the Indianapolis was missing. Help would not arrive for another five days. Drawn from definitive interviews with key figures, Fatal Voyage recounts the horrific events endured as the number of water-treading survivors dwindled to just 316. Each gruesome day brought more madness and slow death, from explosion-related injuries, dehydration, and, most terrifying of all, shark attacks. But the pain did not end when the men finally returned home: The Indianapolis's commander, Captain Charles B. McVay III, was court-martialed for causing the clearly unavoidable disaster. With a new afterword chronicling the fifty-five-year campaign by Indianapolis survivors and their supporters to win public vindication for Captain McVay, this classic is restored, along with memories of the Indianapolis crew.From the Trade Paperback edition.
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Detalles
- Librería
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 001949
- Título
- Fatal Voyage the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
- Autor
- Kurzman, Dan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Very Good
- Editorial
- Antheneum
- Fecha de publicación
- 1990
- Catálogos del vendedor
- World War ll Southeast Asia;
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Catron Grant Books
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- Used to mean that the binding of a book has not been overly loosened by frequent use.
