James L. Noles Jr.

A straight-up account of a little-remembered event; the death of the "Liscome Bay" during World War II. Noles does go to some effort to place the carrier's loss within the context of the military campaign to take Tarawa and Makin, but the main focus is on the effort to survive disaster in a ship's company that barely had time to develope a unit identity; all in all a good story well told.