Authors: James A. Michener
ISBN-13: 9780449206515, ISBN-10: 0449206513
Format: Mass Market Paperback
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Date Published: September 1984
Edition: Reissue
Part travelogue, part history, part fictional adventure, James Michener's heavily researched books edify as they entertain. He began his career with the book that would become the musical South Pacific, but he ended it as one of the century's most popular -- and prolific -- novelists.
Young and innocent, they came to a place they had barely heard of, prepared for war. They were American fighter pilots, trained but frightened, facing an an enemy they couldn't understand, and waging a war they had to win....