Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
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William Manchester. (2006). Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing.

William Manchester. 2006. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Blackstone Publishing.

William Manchester, Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

William Manchester. Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War. Unabridged Blackstone Publishing, 2006.

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     William Manchester (1922–2004) was an award-winning American author, biographer, historian, and a professor emeritus of history at Wesleyan University. He was awarded the National Humanities Medal and the Abraham Lincoln Literary Award. Among his many New York Times bestselling books are two which made the #1 spot on the list: The Death of a President and The Last Lion: Alone.

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The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after World War II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of himself as a battle-weary youth "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.

In this intensely powerful memoir, America's preeminent biographer-historian, who has written so brilliantly about World War II in his acclaimed lives of General Douglas MacArthur (American Caesar) and Winston Churchill (The Last Lion), looks back at his own early life. He offers an unrivaled firsthand account of World War II in the Pacific: of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.

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   • content: The author's gift for words features a dry, dark sense of humor that brings a smile a minute. He recounts his memories, both tragic and droll, of being a Marine sergeant in the Pacific during WWII. Narrator Barrett Whitener takes the role of straight man. Although he occasionally imitates characters--the Japanese pilot shouting "Tora! Tora! Tora!" into his microphone, for example--he never becomes silly or intrusive. He knows how to keep the writer in the limelight, letting the fun come from Manchester's style and content. Whitener's quiet manner sometimes morphs to a whisper in a delivery perfect for a warrior's memories. Although this is an entertaining memoir, it also serves as an excellent history of the Pacific Campaign. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2007, Portland, Maine

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