Goodbye, Darkness

This emotional and honest memoir from a renowned biographer-historian recounts his experiences as a young soldier during World War II. The nightmares began for William Manchester twenty-three years after the war ended. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), “angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.” To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the