Dispatches From The Pacific

Download or read book War Is Not Just for Heroes written by Linda M. Canup Keaton-Lima and published by Univ of South Carolina Press. This book was released on 2024-03-07 with total page 287 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Firsthand accounts of war in the Pacific theater from a premier chronicler of the real world of World War II combat. War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of US Marine Corps. Written by one marine, Claude R. "Red" Canup, a combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II, these dispatches and private letters provide insight into the grind of war and ordinary men and women who carried out their duty. Thoughtfully edited and contextualized by a preface and prologue by his daughter, War Is Not Just for Heroes combines documentary and biography to provide the human dimensions of those in combat and those who reported out.