Into the Rising Sun World War II's Pacific Veterans Reveal the Heart of Combat

by O'Donnell, Patrick K.

• ISBN13: 9781439192580
• ISBN10: 1439192588
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-02-23
• Publisher: Free Press

Summary

In the voices of the soldiers themselves, the thrilling story of the elite troops of WWII in the Pacific .

Author Biography

Patrick K. O'Donnell is a military historian and the author of six books: Beyond Valor, winner of the prestigious William E. Colby Award for Outstanding Military History; Into the Rising Sun; Operatives, Spies and Saboteurs; We Were One; The Brenner Assignment; and They Dared Return. He has provided historical consulting for HBO's award-wining miniseries Band of Brothers, and for documentaries produced by the BBC, the History Channel, and Fox News. He is an expert on World War II espionage, special operations, and counterinsurgency on the modern battlefield. O'Donnell is also the founder of the Drop Zone (www.thedropzone.org), an award-winning oral history Web site. He lives in Arlington, Virginia.

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 1
Overview: The Elite Infantry of the Pacific	p. 9
Operation Shoestring	p. 17
Starvation Island: Guadalcanal	p. 37
Up the Solomons: Strangling Rabaul	p. 63
Burma: Merrill's Marauders	p. 89
New Guinea	p. 119
Into the Marianas	p. 133
Leyte: The Return to the Philippines	p. 149
Luzon	p. 175
Clearing the Philippines: Corregidor, Luzon, and Negros	p. 193
Into the Jaws of Hell: Iwo Jima	p. 221
The Last Battle: Okinawa	p. 257
Home	p. 283
Appendix	p. 293
Notes	p. 295
Acknowledgments	p. 305
Index	p. 308
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