Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
Shots Fired in Anger a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
Publisher:
The National Rifle Association of America
Published:
1981
Language:
English
Alibris ID:
18062466728
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Fair with no dust jacket. 535 pages; B&W photographs and illustrations. Moderate foxing to the exterior edges of textblock. Pen markings on a few pages. Moderate rubbing and smudges to the covers. Slightly cocked spine. Good condition otherwise. No other noteworthy defects.; -We offer free returns for any reason and respond promptly to all inquiries. Your order will be packaged with care and ship on the same or next business day. Buy with confidence.
Shots Fired in Anger; a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
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Hideo Leith and Melissa Leith. Good in Good jacket. xx, [2], 535, [3] pages. Endpaper maps. Publisher's Note. Apology. Introduction to the Second Edition. Illustrations. Minor soiling to DJ and edges. John B. George served in the Pacific and the China-Burma-India theaters and held the rank of lieutenant colonel when demobilized. George served with the 132nd Infantry Regiment/23rd Infantry Division "Americal! " on Guadalcanal and the famed Merrill's Marauders (5307th Composite Unit) in Burma. At Princeton he majored in politics, graduated with highest honors, and won the Atwater Prize in politics. Col. George spent four years at Oxford and then went to British East Africa to study for four years. He settled in Washington, D.C. as executive director of the Institute of African-American Relations. He joined the State Department? s Foreign Affairs Institute as a consultant, lecturer, and writer. Col. George also wrote articles on hunting and nonfiction adventure for magazines including The Saturday Evening Post. This is the story of the Guadalcanal campaign as only a rifleman can tell it. In Shots Fired in Anger, Lieutenant Colonel John B. George recounts his brutal experiences in frontline jungle warfare and examines the weapons, tactics, equipment, and combat mentalities that won and lost the fight. He is shocked to see that the troops have not been taught to shoot or to march, and they are commanded by men obsessed with obsolete tactics. On Guadalcanal, George leads from the front with an eye for detail, analyzing what works and what doesn't from the suicidal Japanese Banzai charge to the reliable and effective M1 Garand. The author interviews his fellow soldiers, questions prisoners, disassembles captured and borrowed weapons, and uses these strategies and implements of war on the battlefield. Few other writers have ever been able to rival George's combination of field experience and excellent storytelling. Shots Fired in Anger is one of the most important firsthand accounts to arise from WWII.
Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
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Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
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Very Good in Good dust jacket. 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" tall; 535 pp; Previous owners name, nice tight book in dust jacket with a lot of edge wear and chipping at the spine ends.
Shots Fired in Anger: a Rifleman's View of the War in the Pacific, 1942-1945, Including the Campaign on Guadalcanal and Fighting With Merrill's Marauders in the Jungles of Burma
Shots fired in anger: a rifleman's view of the war in the Pacific, 1942-1945, including the campaign on Guadalcanal and fighting with Merrill's Marauders in the jungles of Burma
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Very good in poor dust jacket. DJ has tears along the edges and shows soiling. DJ complete. Covers VG, small stain on front lower edge otherwise bright. Text excellent. Binding very tight. xx, 535 p., [30] p. of plates: ill., maps; 23 cm. Includes: Illustrations, Maps, Plates. Maps on linings papers.