In this memoir of life aboard aircraft carriers during World War II, Alvin Kernan combines vivid recollections of his experience as a young enlisted sailor with a rich historical account of the Pacific war. One of the most arresting naval autobiographies yet published. -Sir John Keegan An honest story of collective courage, evocative, well-written, and fixed before the colors fade. -Kirkus Reviews [Kernan] recounts a wonderful and exciting American story about a poor farm boy from Wyoming who enlisted in the Navy. . . .[He] has written eight other books. I will go back and read them all. -John Lehman, Air & Space Details . . . make the moment vivid; that is what it was like, on the Hornet in its last hours. -Samuel Hynes, New York Times Book Review
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Yale University Press
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9780300123159
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Crossing the Line: a Bluejacket's Odyssey in World War Ii