301 pages, 8 plates, map endpapers, cloth. 4th impression, dust jacket frayed otherwise very good. The author, who was the son of Ring Lardner, served as a correspondent with the Army in the Pacific during the early part of WWII. From the publisher: When the Japanese blitz struck Pearl Harbor, John Lardner deserted that extraordinary piece of New York sidewalk known as Jacobs Beach - the bailiwick of the prize-fight impresario - to report the biggest fight in American history. This book is his stirring account of our one, after the armed forces came up off the mat and began to lash back at the enemy in the southwest Pacific. 'If some one close to the reader is in the Pacific, this book has more than the excellent writing to commend it. Mr. Lardner has put into it what every American soldier came up against when he god down under ' - Meyer Berger, New York Times Book Review.

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