Abandon Ship! Death of the USS Indianapolis
by Richard F. Newcomb
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very Good
- Seller
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San Antonio, Texas, United States
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About This Item
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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- Seller
- River House Books (US)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 657298
- Title
- Abandon Ship! Death of the USS Indianapolis
- Author
- Richard F. Newcomb
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover Cloth
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Henry Holt and Company
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1958
- Pages
- 305
- Weight
- 0.00 lbs
- Bookseller catalogs
- World War 2; First Editions;
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