James Sullivan
Author
Publisher
Scribner
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Documents the true story of a U.S. Navy destroyer that inspired the writings of John Ford and Herman Wouk, drawing on the journals and other writings of five shipmates who witnessed the Anzio attacks and D-Day invasion.
The Plunkett's defining moment was at Anzio, where a dozen-odd German bombers bore down on the ship in an assault so savage, so prolonged, and so deadly that one Navy commander was hard-pressed to think of another destroyer that had...
Author
Series
Untersuchungen zur antiken Literatur und Geschichte volume Bd. 18
Publisher
W. de Gruyter
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English