PAPERBACK EDITION

A Memoir of the Pacific War

For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific. What the war looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like for one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.

About the Author
William Manchester is Adjunct Professor of History and Writer-in-Residence at Wesleyan University. His fourteen books, which have been translated into eighteen languages and Braille, which include The Death of a President, The Arms of Krupp, The Glory and the Dream, American Caesar, and Goodbye, Darkness.