22 Minutes: The USS Vincennes and the Tragedy of Savo Island: A Lifetime Survival Story

Ernie Coleman survived the worst open-sea defeat in US Navy history.

But he paid a price and buried the horrific memories for decades.

In the manner of Mitch Albom’s highly successful Tuesdays with Morrie, 22 Minutes is a searing account of a survivor coming to terms with an incident he had suppressed for sixty years and the writer who painstakingly put together the clues about what had happened.

Author Jeff Spevak was confronted with a dilemma: How do you tell the story of a man who can’t br...