Klik på en miniature for at gå til Google Books
Indlæser... World War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater (LOA #351): With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa / Flights of Passage / Crossing the Line (Library of America, 351) (udgave 2022)af E. B. Sledge (Forfatter), Samuel Hynes (Forfatter), Alvin Kernan (Forfatter), Elizabeth D. Samet (Redaktør)
Work InformationWorld War II Memoirs: The Pacific Theater af Elizabeth D. Samet (Editor)
Ingen Indlæser...
Bliv medlem af LibraryThing for at finde ud af, om du vil kunne lide denne bog. Der er ingen diskussionstråde på Snak om denne bog. ingen anmeldelser | tilføj en anmeldelse
Tilhører ForlagsserienLibrary of America (351)
"In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." 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. Remarkable literary achievements that capture history with the immediacy of lived experience, all three--presented here in an illustrated collector's edition--are classics of the modern literature of war. In With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981) Marine veteran E. B. Sledge bears unflinching witness to the horror, fear, and degradation of prolonged close-quarters combat. A mortarman serving in a front-line rifle company, Sledge survived thirty days of nightmarish fighting on the remote coral island of Peleliu, where heat, thirst, filth, and fear and hatred of the Japanese "eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." On Okinawa he faced an even greater test of endurance amid deep mud, driving rain, and incessant shelling, as men "fought and bled in an environment so degrading I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool." Written with precision and clarity, Sledge's memoir is a haunting testament to his struggle to hold on to decency and sanity, and a moving tribute to the esprit de corps of the U.S. Marines. Flights of Passage (1988) is Samuel Hynes' evocative and elegiac memoir of his "fairly ordinary flying war." A "true believer in the religion of flight," he writes with lyricism, candor, and humor about the joys and dangers of his stateside training as a dive-bomber pilot, the beauty and excitement he experienced flying in combat over the Ryukyu Islands, and his wartime education in the realities of friendship, sex, love, and sudden, random death. Alvin Kernan enlisted in the Navy in 1941 at age seventeen to escape life on a failing Wyoming ranch. Crossing the Line (1994, revised 2007) is a vividly written account of his remarkable service on three aircraft carriers, first as an aviation ordnanceman and then as an air gunner. A perceptive and thoughtful observer of the sailor's life at sea and on shore, Kernan witnessed the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and the launching of the Doolittle Raid, armed planes at Midway, survived the sinking of the Hornet, and flew on the final mission of the fighter ace Butch O'Hare. With thirty-two pages of photographs and endpaper maps"--Amazon. No library descriptions found. |
Current DiscussionsIngen
Google Books — Indlæser... GenrerMelvil Decimal System (DDC)940.54History and Geography Europe Europe 1918- Military History Of World War IILC-klassificeringVurderingGennemsnit:
Er det dig?Bliv LibraryThing-forfatter. |
I read _With the Old Breed_ within the past few years, and recently watched 'The Pacific' series, so I skipped the reread of that horror.
_Flights of Passage_ was new to me. The description of his training quickly reminded me of the early Evan Connell novel, _The Patriot_. So much of the war in the Pacific was training and preparation & then being posted to some out of the way locale to wait.
I could not read _Crossing the Line_ fast enough. Kernan captures a blueshirts war, and experienced the best and worst of it. I need to seek out an enlisted submariner's memoir for the same affect. ( )