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Left for dead : a young man's search for justice for the USS Indianapolis / Peter Nelson ; with a preface by Hunter Scott.

Nelson, Peter, 1953- (author.).

Summary:

Recalls the sinking of the U.S.S. Indianapolis at the end of World War II, the navy cover-up and unfair court martial of the ship's captain, and how a young boy helped the survivors set the record straight fifty-five years later.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780385900331
  • ISBN: 0385900333
  • ISBN: 9780385730914
  • ISBN: 0385730918
  • ISBN: 9780385729598
  • ISBN: 0385729596
  • ISBN: 9780440229452
  • ISBN: 0440229456
  • Physical Description: xx, 201 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
  • Publisher: New York, N.Y. : Delacorte Press, 2002.

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 193-196) and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
Sailor -- Boy -- Background; the enemy -- Men -- Mission -- Sinking -- Ordeal -- Rescue -- Guilty -- Court-martial -- Price -- Boy's crusade -- Reckoning -- Exoneration.
Target Audience Note:
1260 Lexile.
1260L Lexile
Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.3 11.0 59211.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 8.3 11 59211.
Accelerated Reader 8.3.
Reading Counts RC High School 9 14 Quiz: 32956 Guided reading level: Z.
Reading Counts! 9.0.

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Subject:
McVay, Charles Butler, III, 1898-1968 > Trials, litigation, etc. > Juvenile literature.
Scott, Hunter, 1985- > Juvenile literature.
Indianapolis (Cruiser) > Juvenile literature.
Trials (Naval offenses) > United States > Juvenile literature.
World War, 1939-1945 > Naval operations, American > Juvenile literature.
Genre:
Trial and arbitral proceedings.
Literature.

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