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Goodbye Darkness

by William Manchester

ISBN: 9781841581255
Imprint: Military and Adventure
Publication Date: Mar 2006
Format: Paperback
Price: £12.99
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Amidst the horror there is humour and even in the blackest moments of despair, Manchester never loses hope or sight of his humanity. Combining reminiscence of his own experiences with his thoughts on returning to the island battlefields, his account of the Pacific conflict gives a sobering perspective to this terrible jungle war.

'One of the few truly great memoirs of the Second World War . . . a superb account of the Americans' Pacific island battle against the Japanese threat will become a classic . . . a marvellous book, searingly readable, graphic, thoughtful, rich with atmposphere and feeling, haunted by awful nostalgia and longing, brutally honest, angry and sad, utterly free of false heroics.'
- Sunday Express

'Manchester has done for that greatest of conflicts what Siegfried Sassoon did for the First World War . . . It is a gripping, haunting book.'
- William L. Shirer

'One of the most powerful and disturbing books to come out of World War II.'
- Irwin Shaw

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