Special Valor The U.S. Marines And the Pacific War

If the U.S. Marines gave birth to a legend in the halls of Montezuma in the nineteenth century, they added glorious luster to it with their heroism and victories against the Japanese in World War II. For this vivid, foxhole view of the Marines' war in the Pacific, Richard Wheeler draws extensively on frontline eyewitness accounts and backs up the stories with official U.S. action reports and captured Japanese materials. Here are the remarkable exploits of the Marines holding off Japanese assault waves at Heartbreak Ridge, storming across coral reefs, and struggling up the slopes of Mount Suribachi to raise the Stars and Stripes.Wheeler, Richard is the author of 'Special Valor The U.S. Marines And the Pacific War', published 2006 under ISBN 9781591149378 and ISBN 1591149371.