World War II memoirs : the Pacific theater / Elizabeth D. Samet, editor.

Contributor Samet, Elizabeth D. editor.

ImprintNew York : The Library of America, [2021]

Descriptionxx, 774 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps (some color) ; 21 cm.

Note:Color maps on endpapers.

Note:With the old breed at Peleliu and Okinawa / E.B. Sledge -- Flights of passage / Samuel Hynes -- Crossing the line / Alvin Kernan.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.

Note:"This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories. Remarkabel literary achievements that capture history with the immediacy of lived experience all three ... are classics of the modern literature of war."--Dust jacket.

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