| Islands of the Damned - A Marine at War in the Pacific
(2010)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Burgin, R. V.; Marines - Biography; United States. Marine Corps - Biography; United States. Marine Corps. Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 3rd; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific; World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, American |
| Publication Date |
3/2/2010 |
| Format |
Hardcover (9.1
x
6.3
mm)
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| Publisher |
NAL Hardcover |
| Language |
English |
| Extras |
Dust Jacket; Dust Jacket Cover |
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| Description |
An unvarnished and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the Pacific Theater of World War II-whose story is featured in the upcoming HBO(r) series The Pacific
This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R.V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty, and with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.
An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.
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| Personal Details |
| Store |
amazon.com |
| Purchase Price |
$16.47 |
| Acquire Date |
2/28/2010 |
| Condition |
As New |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
D769.372 5th.B87 2010 |
| Dewey |
940.54/5973092 |
| ISBN |
9780451229908 |
| Cover Price |
$24.95 |
| No. of Pages |
304 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
| Burgin served in the same squad as Eugene Sledge, writer of one of the great first person narratives of the war in the Pacific. This book is lighter, a much easier read. Sledge's book is a tough act to follow - he set the bar high. Burgin doesn't try to compete with him, he tells his story succinctly and simply, doesn't go into as much detail of the sights and sounds and smells but tells us what he did. |
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