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    Bruce Henderson - Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in WWII

    Bruce Henderson - Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in WWII

    Kepler's Bookstore

    January 9, 2008

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    This epic story opens at the hour the Greatest Generation went to war on December 7, 1941, and follows four U.S. Navy ships and their crews in the Pacific until their day of reckoning three years later with a far different enemy: a deadly typhoon. Drawing on extensive interviews with nearly every living survivor and rescuer, many families of lost sailors, transcripts and other records from two naval courts of inquiry, ships' logs and action reports, personal letters, and diaries, Bruce Henderson offers the most thorough and riveting account to date of one of the greatest naval dramas of World War II. Bruce Henderson is the author or coauthor of more than twenty nonfiction books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller And the Sea Will Tell, which was made into a highly rated network miniseries, and True North, about the discovery of the North Pole. He served as a U.S. Seventh Fleet weatherman aboard an aircraft carrier in the Vietnam War, during which his ship rode out a typhoon in the South China Sea. Henderson, who teaches writing at Stanford University, lives in Menlo Park.

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      Dates:
      January 9, 2008

      Times:
      7:30pm

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      Kepler's Books

      1010 El Camino Real Menlo Park, CA 94025

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      Free underground and nearby street parking.

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      • Event Name: Bruce Henderson - Down to the Sea: An Epic Story of Naval Disaster and Heroism in WWII
        "The Real Thing"
        Comment posted by: Robert H. Ellis (jr.) PhD from Cassadaga, NY, USA., Dec 16, 2007

        Folks, this book, Down to The Sea, is the real thing. I am one of the 13 children born to wives of the USS Hull sailors after the Hull capsized and sank. I was never told much about the incident and... Expand

        Folks, this book, Down to The Sea, is the real thing. I am one of the 13 children born to wives of the USS Hull sailors after the Hull capsized and sank. I was never told much about the incident and so have tried mightely to explore as much as I could including attending a reunion of the survivors. Finally, here is a book that captures what the survivors told me plus an excellent overview of the whole incident. I finally feel as if I truly know what happened to my Dad! Thank you Mr. Henderson. This author is an excellent writer (my daughter is an author so I have a little experience with quality.) I wish I could attend this event but I live in Western New York and get seriously snowed in. I am familiar with the author only through his writing this one book, but it was enough for me to say that regardless of his speaking style, you will not leave this presentation unimpressed! Collapse

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