Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central Pacific - Couverture rigide

McCloud, Steven

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1648430171 ISBN 13 : 9781648430176

Editeur : Texas A & M University Press, 2022

Synopsis

Black Dragon recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company--2-F-23, or "Fox" Company--and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has reanimated the grueling, day-by-day slog through the Pacific theater through the eyes of the US Marines who endured it.

This is the story of American teenagers who left home, many for the first time, trained together, and formed a team that held strong until, at last, those who survived tried to leave it all behind as they dispersed, returned home, and sought to build their lives. Decades later, Fox Company re-formed through correspondence and reunions and also welcomed McCloud into their midst by telling him their stories. McCloud took notes, chased down company reports and other documents to fill in the gaps, and carefully reconstructed their journey.

As one member of Fox Company recalled after returning to Iwo Jima half a century later, "I think the pilgrimage to Iwo has helped me conquer my black dragons--those bloody and stinking nightmares that made nightly uninvited visits for fifty-six years. My dreams were in color, predominantly bloody red. Those remaining are in black and white and shades of gray, not so violent and stinking. These I can live with."

Readers who reveled in Stephen Ambrose's masterful oral history of E Company in the European theater will find similar heroism and heartbreak in the pages of Black Dragon.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

STEVEN D. McCLOUD is the 2-F-23 unit historian and founder of Trident Leadership, a Chattanooga, Tennessee-based leadership/team consultancy for corporate and government clients. He conducts professional military education and continues to lead tours of Iwo Jima, Saipan, Normandy, and other World War II battlegrounds. He lives in Chattanooga.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Texas A & M University Press
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1648430171
• ISBN 13: 9781648430176
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 576
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible