| Goodbye Darkness - A Memoir of the Pacific War
(1980)
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| Front Cover |
Book Details |
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| Genre |
Non-Fiction |
| Subject |
Authors, American - 20th century - Biography; Manchester, William Raymond, 1922-2004; Soldiers - United States - Biography; United States. Marine Corps - Biography; World War, 1939-1945 - Campaigns - Pacific; World War, 1939-1945 - Personal narratives, American |
| Publication Date |
1980 |
| Format |
Hardcover |
| Publisher |
Little Brown & Company |
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| Personal Details |
| Store |
Gallagher Books |
| Purchase Price |
$8.00 |
| Acquire Date |
12/29/2010 |
| Rating |
0 |
| Links |
Library of Congress
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| Product Details |
| LoC Classification |
D767.M18 |
| Dewey |
940.54/83/73 |
| No. of Pages |
401 |
| First Edition |
No |
| Rare |
No |
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| Notes/Review |
Manchester visits Pacific battlefields 30+ years afterwards in an attempt to quiet his demons. Some places were his first visits, some were places he'd been before after the fighting was complete, and some were scenes of his own battles. He weaves together three stories - his modern travels, his travels as a marine, and the grand story of the Pacific war.
On the back cover of my edition, Shirer called it "the most moving memoir of combat in World War II that I have read". Since its publication, many more books of its type have been written. Like Shirer I have not read them all. It is a very good one, but off the top of my head I can name two I found superior (With the Old Breed by Sledge and The Road Past Mandalay by Masters).
As expected for a memoir it lacks end notes, but because the book covers history not experienced by Manchester, notes would be in order. At first I thought it also lacked a bibliography but he does have a decent list (which I suspect is incomplete) in the acknowledgements. |
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