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Hell in the Pacific: A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
Hell in the Pacific A Marine Rifleman's Journey From Guadalcanal to Peleliu
Author: Jim McEnery, Bill Sloan
In the tradition of E.B. Sledge’s With the Old Breed, this is a Marine rifleman's extraordinarily vivid, brutally candid memoir of what it was like on the front lines of World War II in the Pacific. — In what may be the last memoir to be published by a living veteran of the pivotal invasion of Guadalcanal, which occurred almost seventy ...  more »
ISBN-13: 9781501117190
ISBN-10: 150111719X
Publication Date: 7/2012
Pages: 323
Edition: 1st
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Publisher: Simon & Schuster
Book Type: Hardcover
Other Versions: Paperback, Audio CD
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If you are looking for a Marine's story of what it like to be in combat alongside your friends without having to undergo an analysis of higher tactics and strategy, then look no further than this book.

The author served in K/1/5 from the first day of Guadalcanal to the last Marine action on Peleliu, was never wounded and lived into his 90s.


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