The Caine mutiny : a novel of World War II
(1992, original release: 1951)
Fiction
Book
Call Numbers:
FICTION/WOUK,H
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Details
PUBLISHED
Boston : Back Bay Books, [1992]
DESCRIPTION
xii, 537 pages : map ; 21 cm
ISBN/ISSN
0385040539 :, 9780316955102, 0316955108, 9780316955102
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
During WWII, onboard a ship in the U.S. Pacific Fleet, an event occurs unlike any that the United States Navy has ever experianced. A ship's captain is removed from his command by his executive officer in an apparent outright act of mutiny. As the trial of the mutineers unfold, it icomes to light that Captain Queeg was mentally unstable, perhaps even insane. The Navy must then decide if the Caine Mutiny a criminal act or an act of courage to save a ship from destruction at the hands of her captain
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