The Hero Ship
by Hank Searls
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Based on a naval battle in which he fought in World War II, bestselling novelist Hank Searls reveals the dramatic truth of high-ranking mutiny on a US carrier. “As real as the stab of a searchlight.”—Boston Herald Traveler”Outstanding.”—National ObserverTags
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- Canonical title
- The Hero Ship
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- Ben Casco; Christy Lee
- Epigraph
- "To stan' and be still to the Birken'ead drill is a damn' tough bullet to chew."
Kipling, of troops waiting in formation on the sinking transport Birkenhead while civilians were saved. - Dedication
- To Captain Walt Schwartz, U.S. Navy, who died happiest Warrior of all.
- First words
- Her hulk loomed darkly above the Jersey flats, visible from the turnpike for miles.
- Original language
- English
Classifications
- Genres
- Fiction and Literature, General Fiction, Historical Fiction
- DDC/MDS
- 813.5 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American fiction in English 1900-1999
- LCC
- PZ4 .S4388 .H — Language and Literature Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction and juvenile belles lettres Fiction in English
- BISAC
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- 11
- Popularity
- 2,006,841
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- (5.00)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 3
- ASINs
- 2
