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Battleground Pacific : a Marine rifleman's combat odyssey in K/3/5 / Sterling Mace and Nick Allen.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : St. Martin's Press, 2012.Edition: 1st edDescription: x, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:
  • 1250005051 (hardcover)
  • 1250009774 (e-book)
  • 9781250005052 (hardcover)
  • 9781250009777 (e-book)
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Contents:
Sailing the South Ozone Sea -- A bunch of cannibals -- Hellzapoppin -- Run! -- A blast furnace in your soul: Sept 17th-Sept 25th, 1944 -- And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo: the Battle of Ngesebus -- The real Pacific war -- The five bitches -- A constellation of ghosts -- True confessions: Okinawa, 1945 -- Hope, like death -- Whatever happened to Junior Hudson?.
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Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Adult Book Adult Book Main Library NonFiction 940.5459 M141 Available 33111005362153
Total holds: 0

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A POWERFULLY WROUGHT MEMOIR BY A MEMBER OF WWII'S FABLED 1ST MARINE DIVISION

Sterling Mace's unit was the legendary "K-3-5" (for Company K, 3rd Battalion, 5th Regiment of the 1st Marine Division) and his story takes readers through some of the most intense action of the Pacific War, from the seldom-seen perspective of a rifleman at the point of attack.

Battleground Pacific is filled with indelible moments that begin with his childhood growing up in Queens, New York, and his run-in with the law that eventually led to his enlistment. But this is ultimately a combat tale--as violent and harrowing as any that has come before. From fighting through the fiery hell that was Peleliu to the deadly battleground of Okinawa, Mace traces his path from the fear of combat to understanding that killing another human comes just as easily as staying alive. He learns that bravery often equates to stupidity, leading to the death of close friends, but also that life goes on, with death on its heels.



Battleground Pacific is one of the most important and entertaining memoirs about the Pacific theater in WWII.

Includes bibliographical references.

Sailing the South Ozone Sea -- A bunch of cannibals -- Hellzapoppin -- Run! -- A blast furnace in your soul: Sept 17th-Sept 25th, 1944 -- And all the monkeys aren't in the zoo: the Battle of Ngesebus -- The real Pacific war -- The five bitches -- A constellation of ghosts -- True confessions: Okinawa, 1945 -- Hope, like death -- Whatever happened to Junior Hudson?.

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