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Left for dead : a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Delacorte Press, c2002.Description: xx, 201 p., [16] p. of plates : ill. (some col.), map ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 0385729596
  • 0385900333 (GLB)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 940.54/5973 21
LOC classification:
  • D774.I5 N35 2002
Contents:
Sailor -- Boy -- Background; the enemy -- Men -- Mission -- Sinking -- Ordeal -- Rescue -- Guilty -- Court-martial -- Price -- Boy's crusade -- Reckoning -- Exoneration.
Summary: Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 193-196) and index.

Sailor -- Boy -- Background; the enemy -- Men -- Mission -- Sinking -- Ordeal -- Rescue -- Guilty -- Court-martial -- Price -- Boy's crusade -- Reckoning -- Exoneration.

Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

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