Down to the Sea : An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II Paperback - 2008
by Henderson, Bruce
- Used
Description
Details
- Title Down to the Sea : An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in World War II
- Author Henderson, Bruce
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 400
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher HarperCollins Publishers, New York
- Date 2008-11-04
- Features Bibliography, Index, Price on Product - Canadian, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 4496798-75
- ISBN 9780061173172 / 0061173177
- Weight 1.2 lbs (0.54 kg)
- Dimensions 8.9 x 6 x 1.1 in (22.61 x 15.24 x 2.79 cm)
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Themes
- Chronological Period: 1930's
- Chronological Period: 1940's
- Library of Congress subjects United States - History, Naval - 20th century, World War, 1939-1945 - Naval operations,
- Dewey Decimal Code 940.54
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From the rear cover
This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. In December 1944, while supporting General MacArthur's invasion of the Philippines, Admiral William "Bull" Halsey neglected the Law of Storms, placing the mighty U.S. Third Fleet in harm's way. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, as well as many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from naval courts of inquiry, ships' logs, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson finds some of the story's truest heroes exhibiting selflessness, courage, and even defiance.