Down to the Sea

An epic story of naval disaster and heroism in World War 2

Author: Bruce Henderson

Condition: Used- fair

          Shows signs of wearing around the edges. Some staining on the edges of pages.

Paperback

Pages: 400

Publisher: Harper Perennial

Publication Date: November 4, 2008

ISBN-10 0061173177
ISBN-13 978-0061173172

Overview:

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.