In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin.
He lives in Roswell, Georgia..
His books include The Forgotten 500: The Untold Story of The Men Who Risked All for the Greatest Rescue Mission of World War II , Lay This Body Down: The 1921 Murders of Eleven Plantation Slaves , and the acclaimed Sailors to the End: The Deadly Fire on the USS Forrestal and the Heroes Who Fought it .
He has won over two dozen awards for his writing, including the coveted Sigma Delta Chi Award for Excellence from the Society of Professional Journalists.
Freeman is an award-winning writer with more than 25 years experience in journalism and historical nonfiction.
About the Author: Gregory A. navy\'s first mutiny, and shed new light on this seminal event in American history.
Freeman uses eyewitness accounts and a careful and unprecedented examination of the navy\'s records to refute the official story of the incident, make a convincing case for the U.
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With action pulled straight from a high seas thriller, Gregory A.
Navy archives for decades.
Although the incident became a turning point for Race relations in the Navy, this story remained buried within U.
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By the time order was restored, careers were in tatters.
Disturbingly, the lines were drawn racially, black against white.
Its five thousand men, cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war, rioted--or, as Troubled Water suggests, mutinied.
In 1972, the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam, and the USS Kitty Hawk was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin
