Authors: William Manchester
ISBN-13: 9780316501118, ISBN-10: 0316501115
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Little, Brown & Company
Date Published: April 2002
Edition: Reprint
The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), "angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms." To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his "brothers"). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. "The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book." --William L. Shirer
Illustrations | xiii | |
Preamble: Blood That Never Dried | 3 | |
Prologue: The Wind-Grieved Ghost | 9 | |
Able: From the Argonne to Pearl Harbor | 15 | |
Baker: Arizona, I Remember You | 37 | |
Charlie: Ghastly Remnants of Its Last Gaunt Garrison | 55 | |
Dog: The Rim of Darkness | 77 | |
Easy: The Raggedy Ass Marines | 119 | |
Fox: The Canal | 159 | |
George: Les Braves Gens | 215 | |
How: We Are Living Very Fast | 255 | |
Item: I Will Lay Me Down for to Bleed a While ... | 305 | |
Jig: ... Then I'll Rise and Fight with You Again | 349 | |
Author's Note | 397 |