In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war.
"One of the most arresting naval autobiographies yet published."-Sir John Keegan
"An honest story of collective courage, evocative, well-written, and fixed before the colors fade."-Kirkus Reviews
"[Kernan] recounts a wonderful and exciting American story about a poor farm boy from Wyoming who enlisted in the Navy. . . .[He] has written eight other books. I will go back and read them all."-John Lehman, Air & Space
"Details . . . make the moment vivid; that is what it was like, on the Hornet in its last hours."-Samuel Hynes, New York Times Book Review
- ISBN10 0300123159
- ISBN13 9780300123159
- Publish Date 26 April 2007
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 208
- Language English