TROUBLED WATER - Couverture souple

FREEMAN, GREGORY

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0230103391 ISBN 13 : 9780230103399

Editeur : Griffin, 2010

Synopsis

The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS Kitty Hawk--and the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history

In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war, rioted--or, as Troubled Water suggests, mutinied. Disturbingly, the lines were drawn racially, black against white. By the time order was restored, careers were in tatters. Although the incident became a turning point for race relations in the Navy, this story remained buried within U.S. Navy archives for decades.

With action pulled straight from a high-seas thriller, Gregory A. Freeman uses eyewitness accounts and a careful and unprecedented examination of the navy's records to refute the official story of the incident, make a convincing case for the U.S. navy's first mutiny, and shed new light on this seminal event in American history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gregory A. Freeman is an award-winning writer with more than 25 years of experience in journalism and historical nonfiction. He has won over two dozen awards for his writing, including the coveted Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists. His books include Troubled Water, The Forgotten 500, and the acclaimed Sailors to the End.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Griffin
• Date d'édition: 2010
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0230103391
• ISBN 13: 9780230103399
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 276
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