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For The First Time, American Sailors Tell The Story Of The U.s. Navy In World War Ii As They Themselves Fought And Lived It In The Atlantic, The Pacific, And The Mediterranean. Here, In First-person Accounts From Interviews, Letters, And Diaries, Are The Sights And Sounds, The Feel Of The War As Only Those Who Were There Could Describe It: The Sailors Who Manned The Gun Turrets, The Engine Rooms, The Torpedo Tubes, As Well As The Laundries, The Libraries, And The Kitchens. For This Book, Historian Edwin Hoyt, Author Of Many Highly Acclaimed Works Of World War Ii, Contacted Hundreds Of Veteran Sailors. From Their Responses, He Has Forged A Powerful Chain Of Individual Stories, Linked Together By The Larger Drama Of The War As It Unfolded In Different Theaters. Hoyt Follows Raw Recruits Through Basic And Specialty Training And From There Into Combat And Exhaustion, Boredom And Sheer Terror, Losses And Lucky Escapes, Snafus And Successes. Hoyt Chronicles How The U.s. Navy, With Little Time For Training, Transformed Itself Into The Greatest Force At Sea, Even Though It Had Not Fought A War Since 1812, And Was Now Facing Navies That Had Better Ships, Better Planes, And Better Weapons. I

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Author

Hoyt, Edwin Palmer

Publisher

Paragon House Publishers

Published

1993

Language

EN

ISBN

9781557784834

Category

history

Subjects

History, Humanities

Rating

4.7 / 5 (6 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14