
PT 109
Robert Donovan(Author)
McGraw-Hill Inc.,US (Publisher)
Published on 16. October 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
256 pages
978-0-07-140868-4 (ISBN)
Description
"To me, it has always been one of the great war stories of all time." - Senator Edward M. Kennedy. In the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, in the waters of Blackett Strait in the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri sliced an American PT boat in two, leaving its crew for dead in a flaming sea. Over the next three days, the boat's skipper, a boyish lieutenant from Boston named John Fitzgerald Kennedy, repeatedly risked his life in an effort to summon help until he finally secured his crew's rescue. First published to wide critical acclaim in 1961, Robert Donovan's timeless classic tells the complete, harrowing story of PT 109 and her crew.This 40th anniversary edition includes a foreword from Daniel Schorr, a preface by the author recounting the circumstances of the book's creation, and an afterword by World War II naval historian Duane Hove portraying the broader context for PT boat operations in the South Pacific. Here for a new generation of readers is a compelling glimpse of the values of service and duty that characterized America during the war years, as fresh and timely now as when it was published forty years ago.
"In PT 109 we see a man assailed by hunger, heat, cold, discouragement and danger rising, without dramatics or posturing, to greatness." - "New York Times Book Review". "A tense, tough and intelligent story of wartime adventure and heroism." - "San Francisco Chronicle".
"In PT 109 we see a man assailed by hunger, heat, cold, discouragement and danger rising, without dramatics or posturing, to greatness." - "New York Times Book Review". "A tense, tough and intelligent story of wartime adventure and heroism." - "San Francisco Chronicle".
Reviews / Votes
"To me, PT109 has always been one of the great war stories of all time." - Senator Edward M. Kennedy; "In PT 109 we see a man assailed by hunger, heat, cold, discouragement and danger rising, without dramatics or posturing, to greatness." - New York Times Book Review; "This salutary book brings back the days when men heard an undeniable call to service in something bigger than themselves, and answered in kind." - Daniel SchorrMore details
Edition
New edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
McGraw-Hill Education - Europe
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
New edition
Illustrations
2 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 206 mm
Width: 130 mm
Thickness: 19 mm
Weight
289 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-07-140868-4 (9780071408684)
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Schweitzer Classification
Person
A newspaper reporter since 1933, Robert J. Donovan by 1961 was Chief of the Washington Bureau of the New York Herald Tribune. He was with President Truman throughout the famous "whistle-stop" campaign of 1948 and on his trip to Wake Island to confer with General MacArthur. He traveled with President Eisenhower during the 1952 and 1956 campaigns, and wrote the number-one bestselling Eisenhower: The Inside Story in 1956. Donovan contributed to such magazines as The New Yorker, The Saturday Evening Post, and Harper's. He covered Kennedy's campaign for the White House, including the four Kennedy-Nixon televised debates, and subsequently traveled with Kennedy on his overseas trips.
Content
Foreword to the 40th Anniversary Edition by Daniel Schorr Preface to the 40th Anniversary Edition by Robert J. Donovan PrefaceOneTwoThree FourFiveSixSeven EightNine TenEleven Afterword to the 40th Anniversary Edition by Duane Hove