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04929aam a2200517 i 4500 001 FA528F70CD0111ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20220506010041 008 210809t20212021nyuabcfe b 001 0ceng d 020 $a 1598537040 020 $a 9781598537048 035 $a (OCoLC)1290490880 040 $a TOH $b eng $e rda $c TOH $d OJ4 $d WVU $d OCLCO $d ZGN $d BKL $d JQM $d AZM $d AFU $d OCLCF $d IMD $d USD $d EAU $d OCLCO $d NHM $d IBI $d IWA $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- $a n-us--- 050 04 $a D767.9 W67x 2021 245 00 $a World War II memoirs : $b the Pacific Theater / $c E. B. Sledge, Samuel Hynes, Alvin Kernan ; Elizabeth D. Samet, editor. 246 3 $a World War 2 memoirs 246 3 $a World War two memoirs 264 1 $a New York, NY : $b Library of America, $c 2021 300 $a xx, 774 pages, 40 unnumbered pages of plates : $b illustrations, maps (some color), portraits ; $c 21 cm 490 1 $a Library of America ; $v 351 500 $a Color maps on endpapers. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 735-762) and index. 505 00 $t Crossing the line / $r Alvin Kernan. $t Flights of passage / $r Samuel Hynes -- $t Crossing the line / $r Alvin Kernan. 520 $a "In one volume, three unforgettable memoirs that capture the brutality, fear, and heroism of the American land, air, and sea war in the Pacific. "Every generation is a secret society," former Marine pilot Samuel Hynes wrote. "The secret that my generation--the one that came of age during the Second World War--shared was simply the war itself." This volume brings together the powerful memoirs of three Americans who came of age fighting in the Pacific and who survived to tell their stories. Remarkable literary achievements that capture history with the immediacy of lived experience, all three--presented here in an illustrated collector's edition--are classics of the modern literature of war. In With the Old Breed at Peleliu and Okinawa (1981) Marine veteran E. B. Sledge bears unflinching witness to the horror, fear, and degradation of prolonged close-quarters combat. A mortarman serving in a front-line rifle company, Sledge survived thirty days of nightmarish fighting on the remote coral island of Peleliu, where heat, thirst, filth, and fear and hatred of the Japanese "eroded the veneer of civilization and made savages of us all." On Okinawa he faced an even greater test of endurance amid deep mud, driving rain, and incessant shelling, as men "fought and bled in an environment so degrading I believed we had been flung into hell's own cesspool." Written with precision and clarity, Sledge's memoir is a haunting testament to his struggle to hold on to decency and sanity, and a moving tribute to the esprit de corps of the U.S. Marines. Flights of Passage (1988) is Samuel Hynes' evocative and elegiac memoir of his "fairly ordinary flying war." A "true believer in the religion of flight," he writes with lyricism, candor, and humor about the joys and dangers of his stateside training as a dive-bomber pilot, the beauty and excitement he experienced flying in combat over the Ryukyu Islands, and his wartime education in the realities of friendship, sex, love, and sudden, random death. Alvin Kernan enlisted in the Navy in 1941 at age seventeen to escape life on a failing Wyoming ranch. Crossing the Line (1994, revised 2007) is a vividly written account of his remarkable service on three aircraft carriers, first as an aviation ordnanceman and then as an air gunner. A perceptive and thoughtful observer of the sailor's life at sea and on shore, Kernan witnessed the aftermath of the Pearl Harbor attack and the launching of the Doolittle Raid, armed planes at Midway, survived the sinking of the Hornet, and flew on the final mission of the fighter ace Butch O'Hare. With thirty-two pages of photographs and endpaper maps"--Amazon. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Campaigns $z Pacific Area $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $z Pacific Area. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $v Personal narratives, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Aerial operations, American. 650 0 $a World War, 1939-1945 $x Naval operations, American. 650 0 $a Peleliu, Battle of, Palau, 1944. 650 0 $a Sailors $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Fighter pilots $z United States $v Biography. 650 0 $a Soldiers $z United States $v Biography. 700 1 $a Sledge, E. B. $q (Eugene Bondurant), $d 1923-2001, $e author. 700 1 $a Hynes, Samuel, $d 1924-2019, $e author. 700 1 $a Kernan, Alvin B., $e author. 700 1 $a Samet, Elizabeth D., $e editor. 830 0 $a Library of America ; $v 351. 941 $a 4 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20231117030733.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20231010032425.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20230804010558.0 952 $l UNUX074 $d 20220520010530.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FA528F70CD0111ECB5E908A224ECA4DB 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search