{"product_id":"9781101196687","title":"Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific","description":"\u003cb\u003eWatch author RV Burgin discuss \u003ci\u003eIslands of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Pacific\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eSee R.V. Burgin in the award winning documentary film Peleliu 1944: Horror in the Pacific. Click here for more information.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e This is an eyewitness-and eye-opening-account of some of the most savage and brutal fighting in the war against Japan, told from the perspective of a young Texan who volunteered for the Marine Corps to escape a life as a traveling salesman. R.V. Burgin enlisted at the age of twenty, and with his sharp intelligence and earnest work ethic, climbed the ranks from a green private to a seasoned sergeant. Along the way, he shouldered a rifle as a member of a mortar squad. He saw friends die-and enemies killed. He saw scenes he wanted to forget but never did-from enemy snipers who tied themselves to branches in the highest trees, to ambushes along narrow jungle trails, to the abandoned corpses of \u003ci\u003ehara kiri\u003c\/i\u003e victims, to the final howling \u003ci\u003ebanzai\u003c\/i\u003e attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, \u003ci\u003eIslands of the Damned\u003c\/i\u003e brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Penguin Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47300784685296,"sku":"9781101196687","price":14.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781101196687_p0.jpg?v=1763686344","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781101196687","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}