THE PACIFIC - Official book of the HBO TV Miniseries by HUGH AMBROSE (Hardcover)

Description: HELL WAS AN OCEAN AWAY FROM AMERICA THIS IS THE OFFICIAL COMPANION BOOK TO THE HBO TV MINISERIES THE PACIFIC. The author is Hugh Ambrose, son of the famous war historian Stephen E. Ambrose, and himself a noted historian. Ambrose Snr wrote Band of Brothers about an American airborne company that fought its way across occupied Europe in World War 2 and which was also adapted for a highly successful TV miniseries. The miniseries about the Pacific war came from same producers. A line under the title of this book states "hell was an ocean away" - and that brief description is a fair commentary on what American soldiers, sailors, marines and airmen had to go through in the Pacific fighting after the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor on the morning of December 7, 1941. With unprecedented access to official records, letters, diaries, memoirs and personal interviews, Hugh Ambrose tells the epic story of the fighting that turned tropical islands nobody had heard of into places of hell, agony and death. Like his father, he tells the story of those struggles through the memories of the men who actually fought them. THIS IS A DEEPLY MOVING BOOK ABOUT A GENERATION that has been called quite rightly America's Greatest. The edition we offer is a First Printing and it is in fine condition with clean, crisp and unmarked pages, a firm and square hardcover binding that has no cover corner bumps and an intact dust-jacket that is not price-clipped and that we have protected with a removable Brodart plastic cover to keep it pristine. There is no sign of previous ownership such as an inscription or a bookplate. The volume has two portfolios of black-and-white photographs and line maps and the author has provided a comprehensive list of end-notes about his sources and authorities. The Pacific tracks the intertwined journeys of three American Marines in the long and complex war from the earliest battles to their return home after the defeat of Japan in 1945. Publisher: NAL Caliber ISBN: 978-0-451-23023-2 Non-Fiction - History ++ All books sold by Mackie Books are packaged in bubble-wrap to guard against damage from accidental bumping during shipping. This book will be mailed in a box. + Click here to see other listings by Mackie Books on eBay, including American and international classics. Our inventory includes numerous collectible leather-bound books from The Franklin Library, the Easton Press, The Heritage Club and other quality publishers. + We ship internationally through eBay's Global Shipping Program. + We like to get books to you in the condition described above. This means careful packaging - our specialty. + We use recycled material for packaging whenever possible - and we ask our friends to do this too! + We believe that a house without books is just a house, not a home.

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