Presents a history of the role of the Marines in the World War II Pacific campaign against Japan, narrating events from the perpectives of the men fighting the battles as well as their commanding officers.
From the Japanese soldiers' carefully calculated-and ultimately foiled-attempt to build a series of impregnable island forts on the ground to the tireless efforts of the Americans who struggled against a tenacious adversary and the temperature and terrain of the island itself, Robert Leckie captures the loneliness, the agony, and the heat of twenty-four-hour-a-day fighting on Guadalcanal. Combatants from both sides are brought to life: General Archer...
Traces the history of the Tower of London and describes some of the most famous and unusual exhibits and ceremonies that can be seen there by visitors today.
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