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Fatal Voyage the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
by Kurzman, Dan
- Used
- near fine
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Near Fine/Very Good
- Seller
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Rio Rancho, New Mexico, United States
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About This Item
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.
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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Details
- Seller
- Catron Grant Books
(US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 001949
- Title
- Fatal Voyage the Sinking of the USS Indianapolis
- Author
- Kurzman, Dan
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Publisher
- Antheneum
- Date Published
- 1990
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War ll Southeast Asia;
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About the Seller
Catron Grant Books
Biblio member since 2012
Rio Rancho, New Mexico
About Catron Grant Books
Specializing in olderbooks on travel and exploration in Asia, and World War II Pacific and Southeast Asia.Online sales and antiquarian book shows in the American West.
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