Rex Alan Smith - Pacific War Stories In the Words of Those Who Survi - E555z

Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.

Pacific War StoriesIn the Words of Those Who Survived\nAuthor(s): Rex Alan Smith\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S., United States\nImprint: Abbeville Press Inc.,U.S.\nISBN-13: 9780789208170, 978-0789208170\nSynopsis\nIn this new book by the authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory of World War II in the Pacific, the history of the War in the Pacific comes vividly to life in the words of those who witnessed it first-hand. The editors create for the reader, as the veterans themselves recall it, what that war was like - how it looked, felt, smelled, and sounded. The stories collected here are a unique portrayal of the mundane, exotic, boring, terrifying, life-altering events that made up their wartime experiences in World War II in the Pacific, a war fought on countless far-flung islands over an area that constitutes about one-third of the globe. What the veterans saw and lived through has stayed with them their entire lives, and much of it comes to the surface .