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Also by R.V. Burgin:

Islands of the Damned, March 2010
Hardcover

Also by Bill Marvel:

Islands of the Damned, March 2010
Hardcover

Islands of the Damned
R.V. Burgin, Bill Marvel

A Marine at War in the Pacific

NAL Hardcover
March 2010
On Sale: March 2, 2010
304 pages
ISBN: 0451229908
EAN: 9780451229908
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction Memoir

An unvarnished and moving memoir of a Marine veteran who fought his way across the Pacific Theater of World War II- whose story is featured in the upcoming HBO(r) series The Pacific

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.

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