pstrongThe emNew York Times embestselling memoir of survival and heroism at Pearl HarborstrongppstrongAn unforgettable story of unfathomable courage. --strongemstrongReader's DigeststrongemppstrongIn this, the first memoir by a USS emArizonaem sailor, Donald Stratton delivers an inspiring and unforgettable eyewitness account of the strongstrongPearl Harbor attack and his remarkable return to the fight. strongppAt 806 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Seaman First Class Donald Stratton was consumed by an inferno. A million pounds of explosives had detonated beneath his battle station aboard the USS emArizona, embarely fifteen minutes into Japan's surprise attack on American forces at Pearl Harbor. Near death and burned across two thirds of his body, Don, a nineteen-year-old Nebraskan who had been steeled by the Great Depression and Dust Bowl, summoned the will to haul himself hand over hand across a rope tethered to a neighboring vessel. Forty-five feet below, the harbor's flaming, oil-slick wa