Strong Men Armed The United States Marines Against Japan

Name: Strong Men Armed
Author: Robert Leckie

Auteur: Robert Leckie

Taal: Engels

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Auteur: Robert Leckie

Engels
Paperback
9780306807855
21 augustus 1997
600 pagina's

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Robert Leckie

Robert Leckie (1920–2001) was the author of more than 30 works of military history as well as Marines!, a collection of short stories, and Lord, What a Family!, a memoir. Raised in Rutherford, New Jersey, he started writing professionally at age 16, covering sports for the Bergen Evening Record of Hackensack, New Jersey. Leckie enlisted in the United States Marine Corps on the day following the attack on Pearl Harbor, going on to serve as a machine gunner and as an intelligence scout and participating in all 1st Marine Division campaigns except Okinawa. He was awarded five battle stars, the Naval Commendation Medal with Combat V, and the Purple Heart. Helmet for My Pillow was his first book; it received the USMC Combat Correspondents Association Award upon publication.

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Strong Men Armed relates the U.S. Marines' unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction?and did. (All but three of the Marines' victories required the complete annihilation of the Japanese defending force.) As scout and machine-gunner for the First Marine Division, the author fought in all its engagements till his wounding at Peleliu. Here he uses firsthand experience and impeccable research to re-create the nightmarish battles. The result is both an exciting chronicle and a moving tribute to the thousands of men who died in reeking jungles and on palm-studded beaches, thousands of miles from home and fifty years before their time, of whom Admiral Chester W. Nimitz once said, "Uncommon valor was a common virtue."Strong Men Armed includes over a dozen maps, a chronology of the war in the Pacific, the Marine Medal of Honor Winners in World War II, and Marine Corps aces in World War II.

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Taal: en
Bindwijze: Paperback
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum: 21 augustus 1997
Aantal pagina's: 600
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Hoofdauteur: Robert Leckie
Hoofduitgeverij: Perseus Books Group

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Verpakking breedte: 140 mm
Verpakking hoogte: 32 mm
Verpakking lengte: 210 mm
Verpakkingsgewicht: 703 g

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