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008			150529s2015 nyuabf b 001 0deng
010			_a 2015021575
020			_a9780062346582 (hardcover)
020			_a006234658X (hardcover)
020			_a9780062346599 (pbk.)
020			_a0062346598 (pbk.)
020			_z9780062346605 (e-book)
020			_z9780062395252 (audio)
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050	0	0	_aD 774.P8 _bD69 2015
090			_aD 774.P8 D69 2015
100	1		_aDoyle, William, _d1957- _92612
245	1	0	_aPT 109 : _ban American epic of war, survival, and the destiny of John F. Kennedy / _cWilliam Doyle.
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York, NY : _bWilliam Morrow, _c2015.
300			_axvii, 330 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : _billustrations, maps ; _c17 cm
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _bn _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _bnc _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
505	0		_aSamurai in the mist -- Give me a fast ship -- Summit meeting on Fifth Avenue -- Into the labyrinth -- The front line -- The raid -- The Battle of Blackett Strait -- Lost at sea -- Land of the dead -- The hand of fate -- The rescue -- Life and death at the Warrior River -- The winged chariot -- Mission to Tokyo -- The greatest actor of our time -- The rising sun -- Appendices : A. JFK's lost 1946 narrative of the sinking of PT 109 ; B. 1952 letters between JFK and Kohei Hamami ; C. JFK's 1957 narrative index.
520			_aIn the early morning darkness of August 2, 1943, during a chaotic nighttime skirmish amid the Solomon Islands, the Japanese destroyer Amagiri barreled through thick fog and struck the U.S. Navy's motor torpedo boat PT 109, splitting the craft nearly in half and killing two American sailors instantly. The sea erupted in flames as the 109's skipper, John F. Kennedy, and the ten surviving crewmen under his command desperately clung to the sinking wreckage; 1,200 feet of ink-black, shark-infested water loomed beneath. 'All hands lost,' came the reports back to the Americans' base: no rescue was coming for the men of PT 109. Their desperate ordeal was just beginning -- so too was one of the most remarkable tales of World War II, one whose astonishing afterlife would culminate two decades later in the White House. Drawing on original interviews with the last living links to the events, previously untapped Japanese wartime archives, and a wealth of archival documents from the Kennedy Library, including a lost first-hand account by JFK himself, William Doyle has crafted a definitive account of the sinking of PT 109 and its shipwrecked crew's heroics. In the story's second act, Doyle explores in new detail how this extraordinary episode shaped Kennedy's character and fate, proving instrumental to achieving his presidential ambitions: 'Without PT 109, there never would have been a President John F. Kennedy,' declared JFK aide David Powers.
600	1	0	_aKennedy, John F. _q(John Fitzgerald), _d1917-1963. _92613
600	1	7	_aKennedy, John F. _q(John Fitzgerald), _d1917-1963. _2fast _92613
610	2	0	_aPT-109 (Torpedo boat) _92614
610	2	7	_aPT-109 (Torpedo boat) _2fast _92614
611	2	7	_aWorld War (1939-1945) _2fast _91234
648		7	_a1939 - 1945 _2fast _91893
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xCampaigns _zSolomon Islands. _92615
650		0	_aWorld War, 1939-1945 _xNaval operations, American. _92616
650		7	_aMilitary campaigns. _2fast _92617
650		7	_aMilitary operations, Naval _xAmerican. _2fast _92618
651		7	_aSolomon Islands. _2fast _92619
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