Indianapolis: The True Story Of The Worst Sea Disaster In U.

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Nombre: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Figh
Marca: Simon & Schuster

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * GRIPPING...THIS YARN HAS IT ALL. USA TODAY * A WONDERFUL BOOK. The Christian Science Monitor * ENTHRALLING. Kirkus Reviews (starred review) * A MUST-READ. Booklist (starred review)

A human drama unlike any otherthe riveting and definitive full story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history.

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the Philippine Sea when she is sunk by two Japanese torpedoes. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, nearly nine hundred men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive.

For the first time Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own in a wonderful book...that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up...as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have (The Christian Science Monitor). It begins in 1932, when Indianapolis is christened and continues through World War II, when the ship embarks on her final world-changing mission: delivering the core of the atomic bomb to the Pacific for the strike on Hiroshima.

Simply outstanding...Indianapolis is a must-read...a tour de force of true human drama (Booklist, starred review) that goes beyond the mens rescue to chronicle the survivors fifty-year fight for justice on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. Enthralling...A gripping study of the greatest sea disaster in the history of the US Navy and its aftermath (Kirkus Reviews, starred review), Indianapolis stands as both groundbreaking naval history and spellbinding narrativeand brings the ship and her heroic crew back to full, vivid, unforgettable life. Vincent and Vladic have delivered an account that stands out through its crisp writing and superb research...Indianapolis is sure to hold its own for a long time (USA TODAY).

Amazon.com Review

An Amazon Best Book of July 2018: As anyone who's ever watched Jaws remembers, many of the Indianapolis's sailors were eaten by sharks in the four days before they were discovered adrift in the Pacific during World War II. While the horrifying shark scenes will spark many readers to pick up the book, the rest of the Indianapolis's story is equally as tense, from its top-secret mission to deliver materials for the first atomic bomb dropped on Japan, to the sailors' frantic attempts to get out a distress call after they were torpedoed at night, to the court-martial of the captaina court-martial that his crew fought against even after McVay's suicide. The clear, tight scenes brim with first-person details, and seasoned author Lynn Vincent and documentary filmmaker Sara Vladic include not only the expected tales of heroism under duress but the just-as-human stories of willpower bending and sanity breaking. This is history writing at its finest, shining a spotlight on a wartime tragedy that still echoes within the survivors and the Navy today. Adrian Liang, Amazon Book Review

Review

A wonderful book . . . Thanks to Indianapolis, we now have a complete and accessible story of this saga. It is a gripping and engaging tale that features grievous mistakes, extraordinary courage, unimaginable horror, and a cover-up. . . . Vincent and Vladic spent years talking to the dwindling band of survivors and giving voice to their stories. . . . This exhaustive and comprehensive assessment is as complete an account of this tragic tale as we are likely to have. It is compelling history.
Christian Science Monitor

Sharks, torpedoes, deadly secrets . . . In Indianapolis, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic expose what really happened that day in 1945 when a Japanese submarine torpedoed the Navy cruiser.
New York Times Book Review

Gripping . . . This yarn has it all

CARACTERÍSTICAS PRINCIPALES:

-Idioma: Inglés
-Envío: Desde EE. UU.
-Libro Impreso y Nuevo

MÁS DETALLES:

Tiempo de entrega: 10 días
Peso del paquete: 1 kg
Medidas: 5 cm x 22 cm x 27 cm cm
Material: Papel
Modelo: 9781501135958
Meses de garantía: 1
Garantía: Por defecto de fabricación
Condición: Nuevo
Color: Multicolor
Nombre de color: Multicolor
ASIN: 1501135953
País de producción: United States
Encuadernado: Pasta blanda
Editorial: Simon & Schuster
Titulo del libro: Indianapolis: The True Story of the Worst Sea Disaster in U.S. Naval History and the Fifty-Year Fight to Exonerate an Innocent Man (Libro en Inglés)
Autor: Vincent, Lynn
Fecha de publicación: 2019
Idioma: Inglés
Edición: 1
Número de páginas: 592
ISBN-13: 9781501135958
Edad mínima sugerida: 6
Genero musical: Literatura Universal
Contenido del paquete: 1 pieza
SKU: 9781501135958