The World War II Classic Account of Marine Combat in the Pacific.
This is the true, incredible story of the US Marines in World War II - the toughest fighting men the world has ever seen, in their finest hour. Robert Leckie, one of America's greatest military historians, was both an eyewitness and participant to some of the greatest battles in the Pacific. This is Leckie's vivid account of combat and survival in World War II.
In January 1942, in the aftermath of the infamous Japanese sneak attack on Pearl Harbor, he enlisted in the United States Marine Corps. From boot camp in Parris Island to the bloody war in the Pacific, Robert Leckie experienced it all. The booze, the brawling, the loving on sixty-two-hour liberty; the courageous fighting and dying in combat as the US Marines slugged it out, inch by inch, island by island across the Pacific to the shores of Japan.
Special to this edition: 'The Battle Of Tenaru' a never-before-published piece by Robert Leckie commemorating those who fell in one of Guadalcanal's bloodiest battles.
