SALT IN OUR WOUNDS

by Jack Harvey ‧ RELEASE DATE: May 10, 1954

A bare, brief account of the terrifying experience endured by a handful of men who survived six weeks in an open boat after their oil tanker had been sunk by a Japanese submarine on a wartime crossing from Australia to Persia. The reader is not spared a single, brutal detail, from the deliberate machine- gunning of the tanker's crew as they were swimming towards the lifeboats, to the ultimate killing of the ship's white cat- crazed after three weeks in the open boat. Most of the men are seasoned seamen, several of which have been torpedoed as many as three times before. The morale of the crew is bad to start with- their physique weakened by a voluntary hunger strike in which they had engaged before the tanker was hit. It is grim reading, based on an authentic experience, and reminiscent of Walter Gibson's The Boat (Houghton, Mifflin- p.415- 1953).

Pub Date: May 10, 1954

ISBN: N/A

Page Count: -

Publisher: Dutton

Review Posted Online: N/A

Kirkus Reviews Issue: May 1, 1954

Categories: FICTION