Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
by William Manchester
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Author: William ManchesterEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2002-04-12
ISBN: 0316501115
Number of pages: 416
Publisher: Back Bay Books
Book Reviews of Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
Book Review: Part Travel Brochure, Part National Geographic
Summary: 1 Stars
This was a very disappointing "memoir". I had just finished With the Old Breed by E.B. Sledge and was so moved that I started searching for other Pacific memoirs. If you are looking for a combat memoir, this is not it. Combat only comprises about 5% of the book's content. If you are looking for a memoir, this is not it. If, however, you are looking for beautiful, current descriptions of the islands in the Pacific, this is it. If you are looking for chapter after chapter reading about the lifestyle of the local natives, this is it. Extremely boring, extremely misleading, extremely non-combat, extremely not worth the money.
Summary of Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War
For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable 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.Back Bay takes pride in making William Manchester's intense, stirring, and impassioned memoir available to a new generation of readers.
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