Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by
William Mancheste
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- ISBN:
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0316501115
- Format:
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Paperback, 416 pages
- Publish Date:
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April, 2002
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In this intensely powerful memoir, America’s preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed biographies of General Douglas MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life and offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences. Long out of print, this masterful narrative is now available again for a whole new generation of readers. William L. Shirer hailed it as “the most moving memoir of combat in World War II that I have read.” The Los Angeles Times declared that it “belongs with the best war memoirs ever written … tumultuous, powerful, shocking, unabashedly emotional, tough, contentious, compassionate … Never have fighting men been better caught in their talk, action, fear, pride, misery, pain, anguish. Never have the savagery, madness, ferocity, violence, guts, crud, gristle, and gore of war been better put down on paper.”