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From the bestselling author of A Higher Call and Spearhead, comes an unflinching firsthand chronicle of the heroic US Marines who fought on Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and in other pivotal battles during the Pacific War, a classic book now expanded with new stories from the flyboys overhead and the home front at war. Following fifteen Marines from Pearl Harbor, through their battles with the Japanese, to their return home after V-J Day, Adam Makos and Marcus Brotherton have compiled an oral history of the Pacific War in the words of the men who fought on the front lines. With vivid, unforgettable detail, these Marines reveal harrowing accounts of combat with an implacable enemy, the camaraderie they found, the friends they lost, and the aftermath of the war's impact on their lives. With unprecedented access to the veterans, rare photographs, and unpublished memoirs, Voices of the Pacific presents true stories of heroism as told by such World War II veterans as Sid Phillips, R.V. Burgin, and Chuck Tatum--whose exploits were featured in the classic HBO miniseries The Pacific--and their Marine buddies from the legendary 1st Marine Division.

Table of Contents:

• Machine generated contents note: 1. We're In It Now
• 2. Eyeball To Eyeball
• 3. Test Of Wills
• 4. Rest And Respite
• 5. Green Inferno
• 6. Misery
• 7. Hellhole
• 8. New Islands, New Blood
• 9. Here We Go Again
• 10. Black Smoke, White Sand
• 11. Days Of Heat And Fury
• 12. Assault Across The Bay
• 13. Into The Hills Of Hell
• 14. Back To The World
• 15. Island X
• 16. Last Island
• 17. Land Of Mud And Death
• 18. Wasteland
• 19. Last Mile
• 20. Coming Home

• 21. Lives We Lived
• 22. Last Words.

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Author/Creator:

Makos, Adam , author

Contributors:

Brotherton, Marcus , author

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Main Work:

Voices of the Pacific: untold stories from the Marine heroes of World War II [by Makos, A.]

Subjects:

World War, 1939-1945 — Campaigns — Pacific Area

World War, 1939-1945 — Personal narratives, American

United States Marine Corps — History — World War, 1939-1945

Marines — United States — Biography

General Notes:

Description based on: Print version record.
Includes index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Call Numbers:

D767.9 .M35 2021eb

ISBNs:

9780593185322 (electronic bk.)
0593185323 (electronic bk.)

OCLC Numbers:

1259368346

Other Control Numbers:

2708243 (source: EbpS)
[Unknown Type]: ybp302283446