The Eagle Mutiny by Richard Linnett (AUTHOR SIGNED), Roberto Loiederman - 2001

Annapolis, MD: Naval Institute Press, 2001 Naval Institute Press, Annapolis, MD. 2001. Hardcover. Stated First Printing. Inscribed by Linnett on the half title page. Book is tight, square, and unmarked. Book Condition: Near Fine; light wear to tail; one dogeared page. DJ: Near Fine; closed tear on front flap edge. Red cloth boards and spine with bright silver lettering on the spine. 295 pp 8vo. On 14 March 1970 two young crew members mutinied and at gunpoint took control of the SS Columbia Eagle to prevent it from delivering its load of munitions and napalm to US forces in Vietnam. The diversion of ship to Cambodia sets in motion a series of catastrophic events that prevents the mutineers from obtaining asylum and eventually leads to their deaths by the Khmer Rouge. A clean very presentable copy in a Brodart mylar jacket.