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    Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis
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    Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis
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    Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis

    Written by Dan Kurzman

    Narrated by Mark Bramhall

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    Shortly after midnight on July 30, 1945, the Navy cruiser USS Indianapolis was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the Philippine Sea. The ship had just left the island of Tinian, delivering components of the atomic bomb destined for Hiroshima. As the torpedoes hit, the Indianapolis erupted into a fiery coffin, sinking in less than fifteen minutes and leaving nine hundred crewmen fighting for life in shark-infested waters. They expected a swift, routine rescue, unaware that the Navy high command didn't even realize that the Indianapolis was missing. Help would not arrive for another five days.

    Drawn from definitive interviews with key figures, Fatal Voyage recounts the horrific events endured as the number of water-treading survivors dwindled to just 316. Each gruesome day brought more madness and slow death, from explosion-related injuries, dehydration, and, most terrifying of all, shark attacks. But the pain did not end when the men finally returned home: The Indianapolis's commander, Captain Charles B. McVay III, was court-martialed for causing the clearly unavoidable disaster.

    With a new afterword chronicling the fifty-five-year campaign by Indianapolis survivors and their supporters to win public vindication for Captain McVay, this classic is restored, along with memories of the Indianapolis crew.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherPenguin Random House Audio
    Release dateMay 31, 2016
    ISBN9781524709617
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    Fatal Voyage: The Sinking of the Uss Indianapolis
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    Dan Kurzman

    Dan Kurzman (1922–2010) was a journalist, military historian, and author. He worked as a journalist for numerous newspapers and news services in Europe and Israel, including a job as Jerusalem correspondent for NBC News. He was also a former foreign correspondent for The Washington Post. He wrote more than fifteen books, including Ben-Gurion: Prophet of Fire, which won the 1984 National Jewish Book Award. 

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