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100 1 Bissinger, Buzz,|d1954-|eauthor.
245 14 The mosquito bowl :|ba game of life and death in World war
II|h[Hoopla electronic resource] /|cBuzz Bissinger.
250 Unabridged.
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511 0 Read by George Newbern.
520 An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in
the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the
author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football
was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared
up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the
aspirations of college football stars: the United States
Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when
the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the
middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the
bloodiest battle of the war-the invasion of Okinawa -their
ranks included one of the greatest pools of football
talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from
Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men
who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the
NFL. When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over
who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it
was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a
football game as close to the real thing as you could get
in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and
bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito
Bowl." Within a matter of months, fifteen of the 64 the
players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa,
by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die
in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of
these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived
and those who did not. It is the story of the families and
the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far
more innocent time in both college athletics and the life
of the country, and of the loss of that innocence. Writing
with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and
have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz
Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America's
campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final
time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of
dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that
followed at Okinawa.
538 Mode of access: World Wide Web.
610 10 United States.|bMarine Corps.|bMarine Regiment, 4th.
610 10 United States.|bMarine Corps.|bMarine Regiment, 29th.
650 0 World War, 1939-1945|zSolomon Islands|xHistory.
650 0 Football players|zUnited States|vBiography.
650 0 Football|xHistory|y20th century.
700 1 Newbern, George,|d1964-|enarrator.
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