Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway

by Elliot Carlson

Book Overview

In Stanley Johnston's Blunder: The Reporter Who Spilled the Secret Behind the U.S. Navy's Victory at Midway, Elliot Carlson tells the story of Stanley Johnston, a Chicago Tribune reporter who may have exposed a vitally important U.S. naval secret during World War II. In 1942 Johnston is embarked in the aircraft carrier USS Lexington during the Battle of the Coral Sea. In addition to recording the crew's doomed effort to save the ship, Johnston displays...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1591146798
• ISBN13: 9781591146797
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: US Naval Institute Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.4" x 9.4"