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Battleground Pacific A Marine Rifleman’s Combat Odyssey in K/3/5 by Mace & Allen
Battleground Pacific A Marine Riflemans Combat Odyssey in K/3/5 by Sterling Mace & Nick Allen
Battleground Pacific
A Marine Riflemans Combat Odyssey in K/3/5
Sterling Mace & Nick Allen
Hard Cover w/dust jacket
Pages 333
Copyright 2012 May First Edition
Contents
Acknowledgmentsix
Map of Pavuvu Islandxi
Map of Peleliu Islandxii
Map of Okinawa Shimaxiii
Map of K Company's forward position on Okinawaxiv
Prologue1
1.Sailing the South Ozone Sea4
2.A Bunch of Cannibals26
3. Hellzapoppin'55
4. Run!72
5.A Blast Furnace in Your Soul88
6.And All the Monkeys Aren't in the Zoo 106
7.The Real Pacific War145
8.The Five Bitches165
9.A Constellation of Ghosts 187
10.True Confessions221
Insider Dust Jacket
A POWERFULLY
WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER
OF WORLD WAR II'S FABLED
1ST MARINE DIVISION
STERLING MACE'S unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack.
Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. However, this is ultimately a combat taleas violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels.
Battleground Pacific is one of the most important and engrossing memoirs about the Pacific theater in World War II.
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