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    <body><![CDATA[Goodbye, Darkness is a memoir of a Marine's journey through the Pacific, once during World War II and again in the late 1970's as a journalist and historian.<br/><br/>It is a wonderfully-written book which shows the madness of war, the ineptitude of mid-level military leadership, and the bond that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5128663">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is really two books combined into one--half of it is made up of the author's personal war experiences on Guadalcanal and Okinawa, and the other half is set decades later when he returned to the Pacific to both revisit those islands, as well as tour other battlefields and islands. It's a me...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/78012079">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I rate this book at five stars only because I can't rate it at ten. Manchester tells the story of the Marines in the Pacific in World War II, his own story of being a Marine in World War II, and a story of War that is true of every war that has been or ever will be. As always with Manchester, it is ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/75980243">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[another brilliant book by a Marine combat vet who can write...after his service in the Pacific, William Manchester rose to Senior Editor of the New York Times, and in this book he re-traces his steps across the Pacific in 1944-1945. A memoir like no others as Manchester uses his writing skills to be...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41094901">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[The nightmares began for William Manchester 23 years after WW II. In his dreams he lived with the recurring image of a battle-weary youth (himself), &quot;angrily demanding to know what had happened to the three decades since he had laid down his arms.&quot;  <p>To find out, Manchester visited those places in the Pacific where as a young Marine he fought the Japanese, and in this book examines his experiences in the line with his fellow soldiers (his &quot;brothers&quot;). He gives us an honest and unabashedly emotional account of his part in the war in the Pacific.  <p>&quot;The most moving memoir of combat on WW II that I have ever read. A testimony to the fortitude of man...a gripping, haunting, book.&quot; --William L. Shirer</p></p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[This book is many things, a personal memoir, a war journal, a travelogue, a mini-history of the Pacific War in WWII and a lovefest for General MacArthur. The author starts out in fear, explains the root of fear in his life through his background, sets aside his fear by telling the facts of the war a...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/27686189">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.    <p>Back Bay takes pride in making William Manchester's intense, stirring, and impassioned memoir available to a new generation of readers.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[A memoir written 30 years ago about a war that ended 64 years ago. Manchester describes his personal involvement in the terrible conflict that raged on lonely Pacific Islands where thousands died in a war that eventually destroyed the Japanese military machine.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA['With the Old Breed' by EB Sledge and 'Goodbye, Darkness' by William Manchester, should be required reading before anyone is allowed to discuss the horror of the US using nuclear weapons in World War II.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Hit particularly hard for me, as my grandfather and stepfather are both veterans of the Pacific campaign of World War II. Easy to read, gripping, but not for the squeamish. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Powerful! Manchester's description of the first man he killed is vivid and powerful.  Details come at you so fast that you can't grab them all with one read. The Duke was booed at an Iwo Jima hospital!?, It's typical Manchester. I love his books, but he's not writing any more. ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A poignant revisit to the war.  Particularly interesting to me since my father fought on the same beaches as a USMC Corporal.  ]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Manchester returns to the battlefields he fought on as an 18 year old Marine. Rich, sad, &amp; educational.]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Not my favorite book by Manchester.  Some of the descriptions of the conditions faced by Marines in the Pacific were brilliant, but the structure of the book was confusing and he is purposely misleading as to his participation in many battles.  This left a bad taste in my mouth, as did the fact that...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/21403501">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Good detailed memoir of a young Marine officer in the Pacific War.]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences.    <p>Back Bay takes pride in making William Manchester's intense, stirring, and impassioned memoir available to a new generation of readers.</p>]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[Wonderful read]]></body>
    
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    <![CDATA[For the first time in trade paperback, the book in which one of the most celebrated biographer/historians of our time looks back at his own early life and gives us a remarkable account of World War II in the Pacific, of what it looked like, sounded like, smelled like, and, most of all, what it felt like to one who underwent all but the ultimate of its experiences. Back Bay takes pride in making William Manchesters intense, stirring, and impassioned memoir available to a new generation of readers. A book that will enthrall readers interested in the experiences and exploits of Americas greatest generation. As noted in a recent front-page New York Times article, William Manchester is today widely regarded as Americas preeminent biographer/historian. In the two decades since its initial publication, Goodbye, Darkness has achieved the status of a modern classic.]]>
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    <body><![CDATA[I learned PTO history; and of a peculiar poignance on the part of the author in respect of the places over which his US Marines and &quot;the Japs&quot; fought, and of his pride in a job well done. A poignance coupled with a resentment at the teeming Jap tourists and their tacky consumerist ways. ;)]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I read this because it is about being a marine. Since my dad served in WWII as a marine in the South Pacific I was curious to see a side of him he is unlikely to share. Manchester is a good story teller and it is amazing to me that anyone who has lived through the hell of war, as he did, would come ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/18463843">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Goodbye Darkness is probably one of the best memoirs of WW2 I've read. it is not a history of the war, but a chronicle of one man's part in it. Manchester speaks for many of the veterans when he describes his experiences as a Marine in the Pacific Theater. It's a soul-searing account of how the war ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/9419685">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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