In Harm’s Way

[Daniel]

The book that I chose to read was In Harm’s Way by Doug Stanton. I would give this book 3.5 out of 5. The reason that I would give it 3.5 was I did not get into as I do with other books.
The book is about a ship, called the USS Indianapolis, which was torpedoed in the pacific by Japanese submarine in World War 2. They were coming home after they had just delivered a part for the Nuke that was dropped on Hiroshima. When they were torpedoed and there ship started to sink, 300 men died when the torpedoes hit. 900 men had to jump in the water to stop from going down with the ship. Only 321 people were able to be rescued 4 more died later in the hospital. 317 out of about 1200 were able to survive. The book is about how those 317 men were able to fight off hypothermia, sharks, physical exhaustion and mental. The book answers many questions like: why did the navy not realize they were missing? Why they did not come to the first call of help they sent out? And how did the 317 men manage to survive?
This books main theme is about having courage. Many of the accounts in the book talk about Men passing a gun around because they could not keep going. It talks about people fighting to keep going.
From this book I have learn what true courage is and how those people had it. I did like the book but I just did not want to keep reading it. It is well written and has a good story and explains what happened very well.