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The Four Immortal Chaplains And The Sinking Of The Dorchester in world War II

Автор: Dan Kurzman

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Издател: Random House USA Inc

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The sinking of the "Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3,...

Информация за книгата

Автор

Dan Kurzman

Език

Английски език

Корици

Книга - С меки корици

Издадена

2005

страници

288

EAN

9780812966091

ISBN

0812966090

Enbook ID

11030827

Издател

Random House USA Inc

Теглоt

227

Размери

132 x 203 x 15

Пълно описание

The sinking of the "Dorchester in the icy waters off Greenland shortly after midnight on February 3, 1942, was one of the worst sea disasters of World War II. It was also the occasion of an astounding feat of heroism--and faith. As water gushed through a hole made by a German torpedo, four chaplains--members of different faiths but linked by bonds of friendship and devotion--moved quietly among the men onboard. Preaching bravery, the chaplains distributed life jackets, including their own. In the end, these four men went down with the ship, their arms linked in spiritual solidarity, their voices raised in prayer. In this spellbinding narrative, award-winning author and journalist Dan Kurzman tells the story of these heroes and the faith--in God and in country--that they shared. They were about as different as four American clergymen could be. George Lansing Fox (Methodist), wounded and decorated in World War I, loved his family and his Vermont congregation--yet he re-enlisted as soon as he heard about Pearl Harbor. Rabbi Alex Goode was an athlete, an intellectual, and an adoring new father--yet he too knew, the day Pearl Harbor was bombed, that he would serve. Clark Poling (Dutch Reformed), the son a famous radio evangelist, left for war begging his father to pray that he would never be a coward. Father John Washington (Catholic), a scrappy Irish street fighter, had dedicated himself to the church after a childhood brush with death. Chance brought the chaplains together at a Massachusetts training camp, but each was convinced that God had a reason for placing them together aboard the "Dorchester. Drawing on extensive interviews with the chaplains' families and the crews ofboth the "Dorchester and the German submarine that fired the fatal torpedo, Kurzman re-creates the intimate circumstances and great historic events that culminated in that terrible night. The final hours unfold with the electrifying clarity of nightmare--the chaplains taking

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