Smith the United States Marine Corps in Wwii Hardcover (6 results)

Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. Bilardello, Robin (jacket design) (illustrator). 1st Edition. New condition white boards, white spine, and gold spine lettering contained in a new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes List of Other Books by Buzz Bissinger; Author Dedication; Author's Note; Preface; Prologue; Epilogue; Notes on Sources; Bibliography; Acknowledgments; and About the Author. Illustrated with a section of black-and-white photographic plates, illustrated front and rear endpapers, and a double-page map frontispiece. "An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and 3 Nights in August. When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the peak of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Wich is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine Regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean, training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war -- the invasion of Okinawa -- their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: former All-Americas, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted to or would ultimately play in the NFL. When the trash talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: the two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "the Mosquito Bowl." Within a matter of months, fifteen of the sixty-five players in "the Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country -- and of the loss of that innocence. Buzz Bissinger, writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and that have made several of his books modern classics, takes us from the playing fields of America's campuses, where boys played at being marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed, at Okinawa." -- from the inner front and rear jacket flaps. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Buzz Bissinger was born n 1954. He is a Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. He lives in both southwestern Washington State and Philadelphia. He is married to Lisa Smith and has three children.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. The United States Marine Corps in World War II. Compiled and edited by S.E. Smith. New York: Random House, 1969. 965 pages. HC. Unclipped book club edition from when book club editions were the same size and relative binding of main stream copies and is in new way a smaller, cheap knockoff. VG book with VG DJ in mylar cover, this is a tight, clean copy. It has over 100 excerpts from memoirs, histories and contemporary accounts of the war in the Pacific. Includes pieces from Greg Boyington, Joe Foss, James P. Devereux, Samuel Griffith, Thomas Holcomb, Chester Nimitz, Holland Smith, and Ira Wolfert amongst others. A remarkable collection that has withstood the test of time.

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. [8], 376 pages. Illustrated endpapers. Illustrations. Maps. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Inscribed by the author (James Bradley). James Bradley (born 1954) is an American author, specializing in historical nonfiction chronicling the Pacific theater of World War II. His father, John Bradley, was long thought to be one of the six men who was in the photograph raising the American flag on Mt. Suribachi during the Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945. That photograph has gone on to be one of the most duplicated and reproduced photos ever taken. On June 23, 2016, the Marine Corps announced after an investigation, that John Bradley was not in Rosenthal's photograph of six Marines raising the second (and larger) flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, although he had been involved in the first raising of a smaller flag hours before. In February 1945, American Marines plunged into the surf at Iwo Jima-and into history. Through a hail of machine-gun and mortar fire that left the beaches strewn with comrades, they battled to the island's highest peak. And after climbing through a landscape of hell itself, they raised a flag. Now the son of one of the flagraisers has written a powerful account of six very different young men who came together in a moment that will live forever. To his family, John Bradley never spoke of the photograph or the war. But after his death at age seventy, his family discovered closed boxes of letters and photos. In Flags of Our Fathers, James Bradley draws on those documents to retrace the lives of his father and the men of Easy Company. Following these men's paths to Iwo Jima, James Bradley has written a classic story of the heroic battle for the Pacific's most crucial island-an island riddled with Japanese tunnels and 22,000 fanatic defenders who would fight to the last man. But perhaps the most interesting part of the story is what happened after the victory. The men in the photo-three were killed during the battle-were proclaimed heroes and flown home, to become reluctant symbols. For two of them, the adulation was shattering. Only James Bradley's father truly survived, displaying no copy of the famous photograph in his home, telling his son only: "The real heroes of Iwo Jima were the guys who didn't come back." Few books ever have captured the complexity and furor of war and its aftermath as well as Flags of Our Fathers. A penetrating, epic look at a generation at war, this is history told with keen insight, enormous honesty, and the passion of a son paying homage to his father. It is the story of the difference between truth and myth, the meaning of being a hero, and the essence of the human experience of war. In 2000, Bradley published Flags of Our Fathers, written with the author Ron Powers, which tells the story of five U.S. Marines and a United States Navy corpsman attached to the Marines Corps (his father, John Bradley who did not raise the second larger flag), raising the American flag during the Battle of Iwo Jima and the Seventh War Loan Drive after the battle. In that book, which spent 46 weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was made into a film directed by Clint Eastwood, Bradley took great care to locate and speak with family and friends who actually knew the men depicted. In doing this, he received praise for his realistic portrayals and bringing the men involved to life. The book and the film is an in-depth look at those involved and their war-time service. Of the six men who raised the second and larger replacement flag on Mount Suribachi on February 23, 1945, PhM2c. John Bradley, although he had been involved only in the first raising of a smaller flag hours before, was not involved in the second flag raising, Pfc. Ira Hayes, and Pfc. Rene Gagnon were the only survivors of the battle. Sgt. Michael Strank, Cpl. Harlon Block, and Pfc. Franklin Sousley were killed in action later on in the battle. The book and film tell the story in a before, during, and after format, and both were well.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good+. 290 pp. Original dark blue cloth covers w/ gilt title on spine. Light rubbing to spine ends. Previous owner's name stamp on front paste-down. DJ lightly soiled w/ light edge wear; mild chipping to corners and spine ends. Two short, closed tears at top edge of rear panel. Illust. w/ a glossy b/w frontispiece drawing of General Holland M. Smith, U.S.M.C. Contents nice.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good. 164 pages, plus list of casualties, maps, Near fine hardcover in dust jacket. SIGNED by the AUTHOR - ROBERT SHERROD and also SIGNED by General JULIAN C. SMITH - He took command of the 2nd Marine Division in May 1943 and led the Division during the assault on Tarawa. Signed by Author(s).

Hardcover. Condition: Very good. Dust Jacket Condition: Very good. First Printing [Stated]. x, 422 pages. Illustrations. Index. DJ has slight wear and soiling. Minor edge soiling. Signed by the author (Glenn) on half-title page. John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 - December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States. He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years, until January 1999. In 1998, while still a sitting senator, Glenn flew on Space Shuttle Discovery's STS-95 mission, making him, at age 77, the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and the Space Shuttle programs. Derived from a Kirkus review: Mr. Smith goes to NASA, then Washington, then NASA again. Decorated fighter pilot in two wars, first American to orbit the earth, US Senator, Presidential candidate, oldest man in space, it's a wonderful life Glenn recalls in this earnest, memoir written with Nick Taylor. He clearly intends his amazing journey to affirm the Capraesque virtues of hard work, religion, and patriotism he learned while growing up in Ohio. Only occasionally does he toss out hints of the flinty fighter-jock professionalism that, as surely as patriotism, pushed Glenn into space. Glenn still resents the possibility that his anti-philandering warning to fellow Mercury astronauts nixed his chances of becoming the first American in space. His accounts of his campaigns and political life, including a 24-year Senate career, flare into life, as when he depicts his friend Bobby Kennedy. The writing achieves liftoff in such instances as when Glenn proudly recalls wife Annie's humor, self-sacrifice, and fortitude in dealing with her stuttering, and when he recounts his epochal space flights. He remembers the frustrating delays that preceded his 1962 Friendship 7 mission, the beauty of sunsets seen from space, the peril posed by a defective heat shield, and the national euphoria on his return to earth. In discussing his Discovery shuttle flight 37 years later, he provides fascinating details on quantum advances achieved in space travel during the interim. Glenn's story of how he became a example of the heroic age of discovery is enduringly thrilling.