num_pages: 251
description: Chronicles the harrowing ordeal of survivors of the sinking of U.S.S. Indianapolis, destroyed by a Japanese torpedo in the final days of World War II after delivering the atomic bomb to Tinian, a disaster that left many men in the water, subject to a terrifying series of shark attacks that cost more than eight hundred lives. Reprint.
language: English
title: Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S Indianapolis
titlecomplete: Ordeal by Sea: The Tragedy of the U.S.S Indianapolis
genres: History, World War II, Survival, War, Nonfiction, Military Fiction
ratings_count: 113
publisher: Signet