Pacific War Stories - In the Words of Those Who Survived

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific--told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.

About the author

Rex Alan Smith and Gerald A. Meehl are the co-authors of Pacific Legacy: Image and Memory from World War II in the Pacific. Smith is a veteran of thirty-six months with the Army Engineers in the Pacific. He is also the author of Abbeville's One Last Look and The Carving of Mount Rushmore.

Gerald A. Meehl has traveled extensively in the South Pacific over the last thirty years and has photographed every major Pacific battlefield and site.

Summary

This is the most extensive collection published to date of first-person oral histories on so many diverse aspects of the war in the Pacific - told in gripping, eyewitness accounts by more than seventy veterans from all branches of service.

Product details

• Authors: Gerald A. Meehl, Miriam Rothschild, Rex Alan Smith, Smith Rex Alan
• Assisted by: Gerald A. Meehl (Editor), Rex Alan Smith (Editor)
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 21.10.2004
• EAN: 9780789208170
• ISBN: 978-0-7892-0817-0
• Weight: 910 g
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political administration; BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military, True war & combat stories, HISTORY / Military / General, c 1938 to c 1946 (World War Two period), Battles & campaigns, c 1939 to c 1945 (including WW2), True war and combat stories, Oceania, Battles and campaigns