The Pacific: Hell Was an Ociean Away [THE OFFICIAL COMPANION BOOK TO THE HBO MINISERIES] [FIRST EDITION, FIRST PRINTING]

Ambrose, Hugh

Verlag: NAL Caliber, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA), New York, 2010

Beschreibung

As new condition black boards with gold spine lettering contained in an as new condition non price-clipped color photographic dust jacket. Includes Author Dedication; Acknowledgments; Introduction; The Cast; and Endnotes. Illustrated with maps and two section of black-and-white photographic plates. "The Pacific is an HBO Miniseries presentation of a Playtone and DreamWorks Production Excecutive Produced by Tom Hanks, Steven Spielberg, and Gary Goetzman, the producing team behind the Emmy Award-winning and Golden Globe-winning 2001 HBO miniseries Band of Brothers. The epic ten-part miniseries tracks the intertwined journeys of three U.S. Marines - Robert Leckie (James Badge Dale), Eugene Sledge (Joe Mazzello), and John Basilone (Jon Seda) - across the vast canvas of the Pacific during World War II. The Pacific follows these men and thei fellow marines from their first battle with the Japanese on Guadalcanal, through the rain forests of Cape Gloucester and the strongholds of Peleliu, across the bloody sands of Iwo Jima and through the horror of Okinawa, and finally to their triumphant but uneasy return home after V-J Day." -- excerpt from the rear outer jacket. "Historian Hugh Ambrose deepens the experience of the HBO miniseries The Pacific -- revealing the intertwined odysseys of four U.S. Marines and a U.S. Navy carrier pilot and producing a powerful blend of first-person immediacy and historical perspective. Sidney C. Phillips, an easygoing Alabama teenager, enlisted along with a buddy, "Manila John" Basilone was the son of immigrants who found happiness in the rough-and-ready life of a marine. Eugene B. Sledge watched his best friend and his brother go off to war -- and finally rebelled against his parents to follow them. "Shifty" Shofner was the scion of a prominent family with a long record of military service. Ensign Vernon "Mike" Micheel left the family farm to complete flight school. Between America's retreat from China in late 1941 and the moment that MacArthur's plane landed in Japan in August 1945, these five men fought many of the key battles of the war in the Pacific. Here, Hugh Ambrose focuses on their real-life experiences and those of their fellow servicemen, enhancing and expanding upon the story told in the HBO miniseries. Covering nearly four years of combat with unprecedented access to military records, letters, journals, memoirs, photographs, and interviews, this volume offers a unique historical perspective on the war against Japan, from the debacle in Battaan to the miracle at Midway, the relentless vortex of Guadalcanal, the black terraces of Iwo Jima, and the killing fileds of Okinawa -- and ultimately the triumphant yet uneasy return home. These are the true stories of the men who put their lives on the line for our country, who were dispatched to the others side of the world to fight an enemy who preferred suicide to surrender; men who suffered hardship and humiliation in POW camps; men who witnessed casualties among soldier and civilian alike; and men whose medals came at a shocking price -- a price paid in full by all." --from the inner front jacket flap. Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 007233

Bibliografische Details

Titel: The Pacific: Hell Was an Ociean Away [THE ...

Verlag: NAL Caliber, an imprint of New American Library, a division of Penguin Group (USA), New York

Erscheinungsdatum: 2010

Einband: Hardcover

Zustand: As New

Zustand des Schutzumschlags: As New

Auflage: 1st Edition