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A Special Valor - The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War (Paperback, 1st Bluejacket Books ed)
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A Special Valor - The U.S. Marines and the Pacific War (Paperback, 1st Bluejacket Books ed)
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If the US Marines gave birth to a legend in the `halls of
Montezuma’ in the mid-nineteenth century, when they captured
Mexico City under the leadership of General Winfield Scott, they
added glorious lustre to it with their heroism and victories
against the Japanese in World War II. For this vivid, foxhole view
of the Marines’ war, Richard Wheeler draws extensively on
frontline eyewitness accounts of Marines and combat journalists,
backing up their stories with official US action reports and
captured Japanese materials. First published in 1983, the book has
earned praise as a popular, one-volume history of all the battles
fought by the Marine Corps in the Pacific campaign. The book
describes in fascinating and exciting detail the heroic defence of
Wake Island against an overwhelming enemy assault force. It traces
the long bloody battle for Guadalcanal that brought the Marines
their first victory and gave America and its allies control of the
strategically important Soloman Islands. It follows the painful,
island-by-island counter-attack towards the Japanese homeland when
the Marines distinguished themselves at such places as
Bougainville, Saipan, Tarawa, Guam, Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Here are
the remarkable exploits of the Marines holding off Japanese assault
waves at Heartbreak Ridge, storming across coral reefs, and
struggling up the slopes of Mount Suribachi to raise the Stars and
Stripes. Some sixty-five photographs enhance the book, which is now
available in paperback for the first time. Richard Wheeler is a
Marine veteran of the Pacific campaign and the author of Iwo and
The Bloody Battle for Suribachi, among other books. He lives in
Pine Grove, PA.
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