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1 online resource (1 audio file (6hr., 30 min.)) : digital. |
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digital digital recording rda |
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data file rda |
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Digital content provided by hoopla. |
| Cast |
Read by Sean Runnette. |
| Summary |
This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R. V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty and, with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die and enemies killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War. |
| System Details |
Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| Subject |
Burgin, R. V.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.
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World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.
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United States. Marine Corps. Marine Regiment, 5th. Battalion, 3rd.
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United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.
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Marines -- United States -- Biography.
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| Added Author |
Marvel, Bill.
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Runnette, Sean.
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hoopla digital.
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| ISBN |
9781400194643 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
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1400194644 (sound recording : hoopla Audio Book) |
| Music No. |
MWT10755145 |
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