Description: Hardcover Cloth 305 pages. Condition Very Good Dust Jacket Very Good. Presumed First edition 1958. Handsome black boards with red and silver embossing shows off this Clean, tight, square copy with no marks, highlights or bookplates. Book Well kept and carefully stored in unread condition. Slight shelf wear. An unclipped dust jacket smooth, clean and brilliant with slight shelf wear - a few tears, scrapes, wrinkles and chips. Not an ex-library, book club or remainder copy. Sailing across the Pacific, the battle-scarred heavy cruiser U.S.S. Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. Heading westward, she was sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 other spent four horrific days and five nights in the ocean with no water to drink, savaged by a pitiless sun and swarms of sharks. Incredibly, no one knew they were there until a Navy patrol plane accidentally discovered them. In the end, only 316 crewmen survived. How could this have happened -- and why? A harrowing account of military malfeasance and human tragedy, Abandon Ship! also scrutinizes the role of the U.S. Navy in the disaster, especially the court-martial of the ship's captain, Charles Butler McVay III.
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Signed By: NONE
Book Title: Abandon Ship! Death of the USS Indianapolis
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Book Series: NONE
Narrative Type: Nonfiction
Original Language: English
Publisher: Henry Holt and Company
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Intended Audience: Ages 9-12, Young Adults, Adults
Edition: First Edition
Vintage: Yes
Personalize: No
Publication Year: 2022
Type: HARDCOVER
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Illustrator: NONE
Author: AUTHOR, Richard F. Newcomb
Personalized: No
Features: 1st Edition, Dust Jacket, Illustrated
Genre: Biographies & True Stories, Crime & Thriller, Fairy Tale, Family, Parenting & Relations, History, Military, Romance
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Topic: American History, Civil War, Crime, First Love, Love, Military History, Modern History, Parenting, Thriller, True Crime, True Military Stories, True Stories, World History, World War II
