![]() “A strong and honest account…Manchester’s combat writing…stands comparison with the best.” - New York Times Book Review Must reading for anybody interested in beginning to understand the scope of self sacrifice endured by the greatest generation and the human strife associated with our hard won liberty. ![]() "Detailed account of America's war effort in the Pacific in WWII. He offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences. In this intensely powerful memoir, America's preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas MacArthur ( American Caesar) and Winston Churchill ( The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life. ![]() In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "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. The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |