Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific
R.V. Burgin, William Marvel
An unvarnished
and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the
Pacific Theater of World War II-whose story is featured in the upcoming
HBO(r) series The Pacific
This is an
eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal
fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young
Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a
traveling salesman. R.V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty, and with
his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a
green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a
rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies
killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy
snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to
ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.
An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.
and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the
Pacific Theater of World War II-whose story is featured in the upcoming
HBO(r) series The Pacific
This is an
eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal
fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young
Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a
traveling salesman. R.V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty, and with
his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a
green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a
rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies
killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy
snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to
ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.
An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.
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Rok:
2010
Wydawnictwo:
Penguin USA, Inc.
Język:
english
ISBN:
2BF5E9D0-0708-428B-A751-E30B9237C6F0
Plik:
MOBI , 517 KB
IPFS:
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english, 2010
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