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Author
Publisher
New American Library
Pub. Date
2010
Physical Desc
296 pages, [16] pages of plates : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R. V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty and, with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a rifle as a member...
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