*USED* World War II by Ruby Gwin

Condition: Hardcover/Good

The Pacific story captures the complexity and the furor of islands riddled with Japanese well dug in a landscape of hellish remembrance for our soldiers. The Pacific campaign...jungle fight put terror in the heart...young soldiers never forgot. Story recounts in the major campaigns and battles that relates the outcome of one another on Leyte, Luzon in the Philippines. How advanced-base hospitals on the Pacific islands formed a critical link in the chain of evacuation from battle sites in World War II. The European story tells of warriors that in face of constant danger fought with a fighting spirit that overcame the best Hitler's soldiers could throw against them. Some of World War II's untold campaigns were fought and won by the Seventh Army's fight from Sicily to Austria led first by flamboyant Gen. Patton to the steady Gen. Patch. On both war-fronts, soldiers fought where the advantages had been manifold, but the different branches of the arm services worked together smoothly and maintained a command that worked to the finish as true patriots on the behalf of mov pa ae--Love of One's Country.