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Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man

Title

Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man / Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic.

Author

Vincent, Lynn

Publication

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2018]
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Additional Authors

Vladic, Sara

Description

578 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps; 25 cm

Summary

Just after midnight on July 30, 1945, days after delivering the components of the atomic bomb from California to the Pacific Islands in the most highly classified naval mission of the war, the USS Indianapolis is sailing alone in the center of the Philippine Sea when she is struck by two Japanese torpedoes. The ship is instantly transformed into a fiery cauldron and sinks within minutes. Some 300 men go down with the ship. Nearly 900 make it into the water alive. For the next five nights and four days, almost three hundred miles from the nearest land, the men battle injuries, sharks, dehydration, insanity, and eventually each other. Only 316 will survive. For the better part of a century, the story of USS Indianapolis has been understood as a sinking tale. The reality, however, is far more complicated. Following a decade of original research and interviews with 107 survivors and eyewitnesses, Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic tell the complete story of the ship, her crew, and their final mission to save one of their own. The survivors fight for fifty years on behalf of their skipper, Captain Charles McVay III, who is wrongly court-martialed for the sinking. The courtroom drama weaves through generations of American presidents, from Harry Truman to George W. Bush, and forever entwines the lives of three captains: McVay, whose life and career are never the same after the scandal; Mochitsura Hashimoto, the Japanese sub commander who sinks Indianapolis but later joins the battle to exonerate McVay; and William Toti, the captain of the modern-day submarine Indianapolis, who helps the survivors fight to vindicate their captain.

Series Statement

New York Times Bestsellers Nonfiction
New York Times Bestseller Nonfiction

Uniform Title

New York Times Bestsellers Nonfiction.

Alternative Title

True story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man
True story of the worst sea disaster in United States naval history and the 50-year fight to exonerate an innocent man

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-540) and index.

Contents

Prologue: The ship -- The kamikaze -- The mission -- The deep -- Trial and scandal -- An innocent man -- Final log entry: August 19, 2017.

Call Number

JFE 18-7385

ISBN

9781501135941
1501135945

LCCN

2018015537
40028339083

OCLC

1006799848

Author

Vincent, Lynn, author.

Title

Indianapolis : the true story of the worst sea disaster in U.S. naval history and the fifty-year fight to exonerate an innocent man / Lynn Vincent and Sara Vladic.

Publisher

New York, NY : Simon & Schuster, [2018]

Copyright Date

Edition

First Simon & Schuster hardcover edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

New York Times Bestsellers Nonfiction

New York Times Bestseller Nonfiction

New York Times Bestsellers Nonfiction.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 475-540) and index.

Chronological Term

1939-1945

Added Author

Vladic, Sara, author.

Other Standard Identifier

40028339083

Research Call Number

JFE 18-7385

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