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Can I read Islands of the Damned on EtoBox?
Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin; Bill Marvel is a history book available to read on EtoBox.
What is Islands of the Damned about?
**Watch author RV Burgin discuss *Islands of the Damned* and *The Pacific*.****See R.V. Burgin in the award winning documentary film Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific. Click here for more information.**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 of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of *hara kiri* victims, to the final howling *banzai* attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, *Islands of the Damned* brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.words : 67322
Who reads Islands of the Damned?
It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.
Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.
- Author
- R.V. Burgin; Bill Marvel
- Publisher
- NAL Hardcover
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781101196687
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Memoir, Fiction, History