Description: Further DetailsTitle: All the Gallant MenCondition: NewFormat: PaperbackEAN: 9780062645791Language: EnglishISBN: 9780062645791Author: Ken Gire, Donald StrattonType: Armed ForcesISBN-10: 006264579XItem Length: 152mmItem Height: 228mmSubtitle: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor [Large Print]Publisher: HarperCollinsRelease Date: 13/12/2016Description: The New York Times bestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl Harbor “An unforgettable story of unfathomable courage.” —Reader’s Digest In this, the first memoir by a USS Arizona sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. At 8:06 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS Arizona, barely fifteen minutes into Japan’s surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor’s flaming, oil-slick water boiled with enemy bullets; all around him the world tore itself apart. In this extraordinary never-before-told eyewitness account of the Pearl Harbor attack—the only memoir ever written by a survivor of the USS Arizona—ninety-four-year-old veteran Donald Stratton finally shares his unforgettable personal tale of bravery and survival on December 7, 1941, his harrowing recovery, and his inspiring determination to return to the fight. Don and four other sailors made it safely across the same line that morning, a small miracle on a day that claimed the lives of 1,177 of their Arizona shipmates—approximately half the American fatalaties at Pearl Harbor. Sent to military hospitals for a year, Don refused doctors’ advice to amputate his limbs and battled to relearn how to walk. The U.S. Navy gave him a medical discharge, believing he would never again be fit for service, but Don had unfinished business. In June 1944, he sailed back into the teeth of the Pacific War on a destroyer, destined for combat in the crucial battles of Leyte Gulf, Luzon, and Okinawa, thus earning the distinction of having been present for the opening shots and the final major battle of America’s Second World War. As the seventy-fifth anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack approaches, Don, a great-grandfather of five and one of five living survivors of the Arizona, offers an unprecedentedly intimate reflection on the tragedy that drew America into the greatest armed conflict in history. All the Gallant Men is a book for the ages, one of the most remarkable—and remarkably inspiring—memoirs of any kind to appear in recent years. *New York Post **Library JournalCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Width: 20mmItem Weight: 375gContributor: Ken Gire (With)Genre: BiographyTopic: Law & Politics, History, Military HistoryRelease Year: 2016 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: All the Gallant Men
Publication Name: All the Gallant Men
Title: All the Gallant Men
EAN: 9780062645791
Language: English
ISBN: 9780062645791
Author: Donald Stratton
Type: Armed Forces
ISBN-10: 006264579X
Item Length: 152mm
Item Height: 228mm
Subtitle: An American Sailor's Firsthand Account of Pearl Harbor [Large Pri
Publisher: HarperCollins
Release Year: 2016
Release Date: 13/12/2016
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Item Width: 20mm
Item Weight: 375g
Contributor: Ken Gire (With)
Genre: Biography
Topic: Military History
