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About the Author
William Manchester was a hugely successful popular historian and biographer whose books include The Last Lion, Volumes 1 and 2, Goodbye Darkness, A World Lit Only by Fire, The Glory and the Dream, The Arms of Krupp, American Caesar, The Death of the President, and assorted works of journalism.
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Product details
Paperback: 416 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; 1st THUS edition (April 12, 2002)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316501115
ISBN-13: 978-0316501118
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 1.1 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces
Average Customer Review:
4.4 out of 5 stars
288 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#48,729 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
This book is as much hagiography as it is history, personal reminiscences aside. it tells a great story and gives you a "you are there" feel. but given the fact that literary license was used proceed with caution.That said worth the read but not to be taken as history.
As a student of 20th century history I’ve read many WWII memoirs from soldiers of Russia, Germany and Americans during the war in Europe. In all my readings it became rather evident that the most brutal and savage fighting took place on the Eastern Front with the struggle of the Wehrmacht and the Red Army. I had conducted limited reading but mostly of naval battles of the war in the Pacific during this time period. In 1978 the author who is one of my all-time favorite writers of historical events went back to the battlefields where as a young Marine Sgt fought. In this very detailed reminiscent tour of his youthful past we find a young man who transformed from a young college student to a full-fledged man who had experienced combat in what I consider more brutal and savage than the Eastern Front. This is not a normal memoir when the storyteller only tells of his experiences. Manchester not only tells us the story, he gives a complete history lesson as to why certain islands were attacked and others were not. He tells us of leadership mistakes and how his fellow Marines reacted and proceeded forward to get the job done. In doing this history the author gives us further background to the native population and how those people are living currently upon his return visit. Also Manchester goes into his personal life during his experiences as a Marine. His attitudes and beliefs are molded by his personal experiences with women, fellow Marines, officers and above all how he viewed the enemy. His descriptive accounts of actual combat rival anything I’ve read about the brutal Eastern Front. Also the author describes that not only the enemy, who were more fanatical than any Russian fighting in the brutal winter climate, his descriptions of the unlivable conditions of the various jungles make the brutal winters seem like a ski vacation in comparison. In all after his last fought battle on Sugar Loaf Manchester comes to the following conclusion which I must say that sooner or later most combat veterans realize. In the following quote Manchester concludes the essence of all veterans, “So my feelings about Sugar Loaf were mixed. As I look back, it was somewhere on the slopes of that hill, where I confronted the dark underside of the battle, that passion died between me and the Marine Corps. The silver cord had been loosed, the golden bowl broken at the fountain, the wheel broken at the cistern.†Manchester realized that his pride in the Marines and his country was not what it was all about. The real reason as any combat veteran knows that his loyalty rested with his comrades at arms his fellow Marines who would do anything for him and that he would do anything for them. True loyalty is in the brotherhood of the men who fight with you.
I bought this book as a gift. I have my own copy that i re-read every year during the week of the Marine Corps Birthday. William Manchester is one of my favorite authors. I re-read his biography of Douglas MacArthur, "American Caesar" from time-to-time as well. Manchester's "Goodbye Darkness" is a very touching autobiography of his life, but focusing on his time as combat Marine in WWII. I enjoy reading other autobiographies of Marines in WWII: Robert Leckie, and Eugene Sledge, for example. However, Manchester adds an intellectual, historical perspective of the war in the Pacific and the battles that he did not participate in.
Never have I read a book that so grippingly, and I assume accurately, conveys the horrors of combat (and that includes Sledge's masterful book on Pelilu). The late Manchester leaves behind him a canon of distinguished non-fiction, one of the gems of which is this memoir. One often wonders how veterans of brutal combat cope with their memories. In this book, the twice-wounded Manchester revisits -- several decades later -- the Pacific Islands where he and his Marines confronted the Japanese: Guadalcanal, Tarawa, Okinawa, etc. His tales of actual combat are gripping and vivid. Did he finally come to terms with his memories? Read it and find out.
This book is a powerful memoir of the gruelling war in the Pacific by a vigorous lively writer. The experiences, the heroism, and the suffering of the men who fought their way up the Pacific from the outskirts of Australia to the outskirts of Japan must never be forgotten, particularly in a contemporary American environment in which volunteer armed forces, a tiny segment of the American population, fight endlessly while the rest of the country drivers bigger and bigger SUVs and fantasizes about Making America Great again, under a Commander in Chief who could not be more removed from what Manchester writes about..
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