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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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Status Barcode
YA YA Chamberlin Free Public Library Young Adult YA 940.54 NEL (Browse shelf(Opens below)) D774.I5 Available 34517000338080

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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