Subtitled "Deciphering the Mysterious Fate of the USS Edsall," this narrative follows the entire history of the World War I era "4-pipe" destroyer, from her presence at the infamous Great Fire of Smyrna in 1922 to her mysterious final action and disappearance on March 1, 1942.

Now the USS Edsall's full story, including the action that sent her to the bottom of the Indian Ocean on that fateful day, can be told, thanks to the newly deciphered and re-examined Japanese records, previously unknown material from crewmembers' families, and U.S. Navy, Dutch, and Imperial Japanese Navy documents.

In this well illustrated volume, Donald Kehn sheds new light on a ship whose fate has been overlooked and all but relegated to obscurity in naval histories. The reader will discover how DD-219 fought heroically before slipping beneath the ocean's surface. The horrendous fate of the crewmen who survived the ordeal will also finally be revealed.

Those interested U.S. Naval history, or material about the Pacific Campaign during W.W.II, will want to read this informative and well written volume.