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Title:
Abandon Ship!
Genre:
History
Military
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Subgenre:
WWII
Series Order:
0
Binding:
Hardcover
Edition:
1st
Type of Book:
Non-Fiction
Number of Pages:
352
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:47:41
Synopsis:
She was a ship of destiny. 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. As she was continuing westward, her captain asked for a destroyer escort. He was told it wasn’t necessary.
But it was. She was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 others 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, nobody knew they were out there until a Navy patrol plane accidentally discovered them.
Miraculously, 316 crewmen still survived.
How could this have happened-and why?
This updated edition of Abandon Ship!, with a new introduction and afterword by Peter Maas, supplies the chilling answer.
Originally published in 1958, Abandon Ship! was the first book to describe, in vivid detail, the unspeakable ordeal the survivors of the Indianapolis endured. It was also the first book to scrutinize the role of the U.S. Navy in the Indianapolis saga, especially in the cruel aftermath of the rescue when Captain Charles Butler McVay III was court-martialed and convicted of ”hazarding” his ship.
The bitter controversy over the Navy’s handling of this case has raged for decades, with the survivors leading a campaign to set the record straight and exonerate Captain McVay. Peter Maas, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Terrible Hours, reveals facts previously unavailable to Richard Newcomb and chronicles the forty-year crusade to restore the captain’s good name, a
Indianapolis had just delivered a secret cargo that would trigger the end of World War II. As she was continuing westward, her captain asked for a destroyer escort. He was told it wasn’t necessary.
But it was. She was torpedoed and sunk by a Japanese submarine. In twelve minutes, some 300 men went down with her. More than 900 others 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, nobody knew they were out there until a Navy patrol plane accidentally discovered them.
Miraculously, 316 crewmen still survived.
How could this have happened-and why?
This updated edition of Abandon Ship!, with a new introduction and afterword by Peter Maas, supplies the chilling answer.
Originally published in 1958, Abandon Ship! was the first book to describe, in vivid detail, the unspeakable ordeal the survivors of the Indianapolis endured. It was also the first book to scrutinize the role of the U.S. Navy in the Indianapolis saga, especially in the cruel aftermath of the rescue when Captain Charles Butler McVay III was court-martialed and convicted of ”hazarding” his ship.
The bitter controversy over the Navy’s handling of this case has raged for decades, with the survivors leading a campaign to set the record straight and exonerate Captain McVay. Peter Maas, the author of the New York Times bestseller The Terrible Hours, reveals facts previously unavailable to Richard Newcomb and chronicles the forty-year crusade to restore the captain’s good name, a
Author:
Richard F. Newcomb
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Publisher:
HarperCollins
Barcode:
9780060184711
Publication Year:
2000
OCLC:
978-0060184711
Number of Copies:
1
Language:
English
Has Dustcover:
Yes
Automatic Estimated Value:
~$4.08
Automatic Estimated Date:
2025-07-18
Date Added:
2018-06-26 17:47:41
