FATAL VOYAGE The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
by Kurzman, Dan
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- Hardcover
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- Condition
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About This Item
New York: Atheneum, 1990 pp.xiii 331 plus 8 pages of photographs. Endpaper maps. Black cloth-backed grey boards with silver lettering on spine. Appears to be ex-lib but apart from numbers in bottom margin of title page there are no other stamps or markings. Very good in Near fine protected dustjacket. heavy book which will require extra overseas shipping.
Synopsis
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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- Seller
- C & J Read
(GB)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 019787
- Title
- FATAL VOYAGE The Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
- Author
- Kurzman, Dan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Publisher
- Atheneum
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1990
- Keywords
- War Naval
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall
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