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portada Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World war ii
Type
Physical Book
Publisher
Author
Language
English
Pages
376
Format
Hardcover
ISBN13
9780197752678

Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World war ii

Craig L. Symonds (Author) · Oxford Univ Pr · Hardcover

Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World war ii - Craig L. Symonds

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Synopsis "Annapolis Goes to War: The Naval Academy Class of 1940 and its Trial by Fire in World war ii"

America's preeminent naval historian offers a history of the Second World War based on the experiences of the young officers--fresh out of the United States Naval Academy--who served on its front lines. They arrived in Annapolis as teenagers the year Hitler re-occupied the Rhineland and graduated as young men the week the British Army evacuated Dunkirk. Annapolis Goes to War tells the story of their four transformative years at the Naval Academy, and then four more annealing years in the cauldron of war. More than a hundred of them were on duty in Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. Ten of them died that day-seven remain entombed in the USS Arizona still. Over the next four years, these former Midshipmen participated in virtually every significant engagement in both the Atlantic and the Pacific, from Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay, from North Africa to Normandy. They were at the front edge of the war in battleships, carriers, destroyers, submarines, and airplanes, and led Marine Corps units ashore. Some experienced the war as prisoners of the Japanese. Fifty-six of them died in the Second World War, the greatest wartime loss any service academy ever experienced. Taking readers into and through the lives of these young men in wartime, Craig Symonds offers a poignant and powerful story of adjustment, growth, pain, loss, and eventually triumph. Using their diaries, memoirs, and letters, he evokes unforgettably their trials and bonds, their loss of innocence and their discovery of the meaning of sacrifice. Annapolis Goes to War is essential reading for anyone seeking to understand the experience of fighting the bloodiest war in human history.

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