The Last Men in the Last Battles of World War Ii: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima Via Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
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Title: The Last Men in the Last Battles of World War Ii: From Pearl Harbor to Hiroshima Via Guadalcanal, Peleliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa
Binding: Paperback
Number Of Pages: 386
Release Date: 2020-03-12
Details: Welcome to a meeting with The Last Men in the Last Battles of World War II. Travel with them as they scale enemy escarpments, attack heavily armed caves and fly in cockpits against Kamikazes, visit them on Pearl Harbor, Guadalcanal, Peliliu, Iwo Jima, and Okinawa, and learn why Admiral Nimitz said, "Among these men uncommon valor was a common virtue." This book presents selected stories about thousands of Army Infantry, Sailors, Pilots and Marines who fought a brutal enemy. Hear Chaplain Sydney Wood-Cahusac say of those who did not return "Immortality is not our gift to give, but we can recall them as individuals, as human beings, as friends and not just as number." The Keys, through personal interviews with eleven of these men, their sons, or best friends, have captured stories that present them as real persons with feelings about the war, the enemy and their buddies wounded and dying nearby. Read stories of how Sergeant Major Hank Clark led others to save New Zealand and how Mustang pilot Bill Stringer downed three enemy planes, though badly wounded while sleeping in his cockpit. Some Cam Home captures stories about the men's families, jobs, joys, and problems after returning home.
EAN: 9781480887916
Package Dimensions: height: 229 mm, length: 152 mm, width: 22 mm, weight: 562 g
Languages: en
