THE MARINES' WAR
An Account of the Struggle for the Pacific from Both American and Japanese Sources
Fletcher Pratt
VG/Fair. Ratty dust jacket in mylar. (NY: William Sloan Associates, 1948).
First Printing.
Maps, index, 456 pages.
"This is a history written for the general reader, and at the most favorable possible moment. The events are still fresh in the minds of the men who made them, and to whom Mr Pratt has talked. The records have been accumulated and analyzed. the documents were his to study, both Japanese and American. The Marine Corps and the Navy opened their records to him without censorship or directives of any kind.
~~~ Because there is here an incisive and thoughtful account of the Japanese strategy and tactics as well as the American, the reader comes to understand the war as a true conflict of opposing forces, methods, and ideas. The steady, progressive steps by which the American victory was fashioned, the gradual accumulations of mistakes and misunderstandings which cost the Japanese campaign after campaign, are set down with astonishing clarity. And the author never forgets that wars are waged by human beings, that decisions take place in human minds. full of fresh and hiterto unknown material, this is a book that will be read with excitement and the delight of revelation."
An important, early history of the Marines in WWII, in scarce jacket. Originally published in 1948 at $5.00, now long-since OUT OF PRINT.
$45.00
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