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Pacific, The by Hugh Ambrose Hard Cover with dust jacket
Pacific, The by Hugh Ambrose
Hard Cover w/ dust jacket
489 pages
Copyright 2010
CONTENTS
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The Cast
Act 1 House of Cards Dec 1941-June 1942
Act 2 Even Up and Squared Off May 1942- Dec 1942
Act 3 The Pause that Refreshes Christmas 1942-Christmas 1943
Act 4 Haze Gray and Underway December 1943-June 1945
Act 5 Legacies
End Notes
DUST JACKET INTRODUCTION
Sidney C. Phillips, an easygoing Alabama teenager, enlisted along with a buddy. "Manila John" Basilone was the son of immigrants who found happiness in the rough-and-ready life of a marine. Eugene B. Sledge watched his best friend and his brother go off to warand finally rebelled against his parents to follow them. "Shifty" Shofner was the scion of a prominent family with a long record of military service. Ensign Vernon "Mike" Micheel left the family farm to complete flight school.
Between America's retreat from China in late 1941 and the moment that MacArthur's plane landed in Japan in August 1945, these five men fought many of the key battles of the war in the Pacific. Here, Hugh Ambrose focuses on their real-life experiences and those of their fellow servicemen, enhancing and expanding upon the story told in the HBO miniseries.
Covering nearly four years of combat with unprecedented access to military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photographs, and interviews, this volume offers a unique historical perspective on the war against Japan, from the debacle in Bataan to the miracle at Midway, the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, the black terraces of Iwo Jima, and the killing fields of Okinawaand ultimately the triumphant yet uneasy return home.
These are the true stories of the men who put their lives on the line for our country, who were dispatched to the other side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; men who suffered hardship and humiliation in POW camps; men who witnessed casualties among soldier and civilian alike; and men whose medals came at a shocking pricea price paid in full by all.
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