The Barren Beaches of Hell Author:Boyd Cochrell A savage story of the United States Marines and their bloody conquest of the Jap-held Pacific Islands. Boyd Cochrell has recreated all the inhumanity and depravity of war. From Tarawa to Saipan to Tinian and on to Japan, hre are the indescribable atrocity and brutality of war, and the men who fought and died on the sandy Pacific beaches halfwa... more »y around the world from home.« less