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Steaming as Before
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Steaming as Before
Engelsk Paperback

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Thrust into the position of captain by the necessity of war, Richard Bovbjerg, a young biologist, chronicles a fascinating look at the lives of men aboard a minesweeper, the YMS 353. Bovbjerg guides his crew from Miami, Florida through the South Pacific to the Philippines in the closing year of World War II. From their small wooden hulled boat, Bovbjerg and his crew experience the boredom of endless days at sea punctuated by kamikaze attacks, meetings with a Stone Age tribe in the South Pacific, shore leaves in pre-revolutionary Cuba, the creativity necessary to survive Navy bureaucracy, the terror of tropical typhoons among uncharted reefs, the endless terror of mines, and finally, miraculously, their survival without casualty. An intimate, gritty testimony to be shared by the captains and sailors of the Pacific minesweepers with their children and with all those interested in the daily realities of war, Steaming as Before provides a compelling account of war from life at the base in Miami to the liberation of Palau.
Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
274
ISBN-13:
9780761828501
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0761828508
Kategori:
Udg. Dato:
24 mar 2004
Længde:
21mm
Bredde:
166mm
Højde:
221mm
Forlag:
University Press of America
Oplagsdato:
24 mar 2004
Forfatter(e):
Kategori sammenhænge