Goodbye Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War, Hardcover/William Manchester

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The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), ``angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.`` To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his ``brothers``). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific. ``The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book.`` --William L. Shirer