Strong Men Armed

The bestselling classic written by the veteran whose WWII exploits are featured in the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg HBO miniseries The Pacific . Strong Men Armed  relates the U.S. Marines’ unprecedented, relentless drive across the Pacific during World War II, from Guadalcanal to Okinawa, detailing their struggle to dislodge from heavily fortified islands an entrenched enemy who had vowed to fight to extinction—and did. (All but three of the Marines’ victories required the complete annihilati