Troubled Water

<p><b>The gripping account of the riot aboard the USS <i>Kitty Hawk</i>--and the first mutiny in U.S. Naval history</b> <p/>In 1972 the United States was embroiled in an unpopular war in Vietnam and the USS <i>Kitty Hawk</i> was headed to her station in the Gulf of Tonkin. Its five thousand men cooped up for the longest at-sea tour of the war rioted--or as <i>Troubled Water </i>suggests mutinied. Disturbingly the lines were drawn racially black against white. By the time order was restored careers were in tatters. Although the incident became a turning point for race relations in the Navy this story remained buried within U.S. Navy archives for decades. <p/>With action pulled straight from a high-seas thriller Gregory A. 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.S. navy's first mutiny and shed new light on this seminal event in American history.</p>