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Title details for Islands of the Damned by R. V. Burgin - Available

Islands of the Damned

A Marine at War in the Pacific

by R. V. Burgin
William Marvel
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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 hara kiri victims, to the final howling banzai attacks as the Japanese embraced their inevitable defeat.


An unforgettable narrative of a young Marine in combat, Islands of the Damned brings to life the hell that was the Pacific War.

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  • Release date

    March 2, 2010

  • Formats

    • OverDrive Listen audiobook

      • ISBN: 9781400194643
      • File size: 187466 KB
      • Duration: 06:30:33

  • Languages

    • English

  • Reviews

    • AudioFile Magazine
      U.S. Marine R.V. Burgin arrived in the Pacific Theater during WWII just after the six-month conquest of Guadalcanal. In this memoir he remembers his life before, during, and after his service in the Corps. His gripping stories of two amphibious invasions--New Britain and Peleliu--will pull listeners into the action as only a first-person account can do. Narrator Sean Runnette uses a voice and rhythm just right for the job. The timing of his phrases fits the prose so aptly that one can easily imagine him to be the Marine recounting the traumatic events still stored in his memory. Although detailed troop movements can overwhelm and spoil a combat story, Burgin's economy with unit names and geography leaves plenty of room for engrossing biographical thoroughness. J.A.H. (c) AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine

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