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The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II  Cover Image Book Book

The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II / Buzz Bissinger.

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  • ISBN: 9780062879929
  • ISBN: 0062879928
  • Physical Description: xv, 461 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, map ; 24 cm
  • Edition: First edition.
  • Publisher: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing, [2022]

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 417-455).
Prologue -- McLaughry -- Everybody's watching -- Schreiner -- Butkovich -- Land of the free -- The army way -- The letter -- Murphy -- Odette -- Football is war -- Separate and unequal -- Remember the McKean -- Sunday sheet -- Bauman -- Forget me not -- Committed to the deep -- The patrol -- Pen pal -- Not a damn thing -- Temptation -- Millimeter -- March of the crabs -- The Mosquito Bowl -- Bound for hell -- Buckner -- April fool -- Abandon ship -- The tortoise -- The little girl -- Return to sender -- A thousand ants -- At all costs -- Crazy for revenge -- Carry on -- Last stand -- Regret to inform -- Why? -- Three stars -- Counting the days -- Cessation of hostilities -- Silence -- Epilogue.
Subject: World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan > Okinawa Island.
Football > United States > History.
Football players > United States > Biography.
United States. Marine Corps > Biography.
HISTORY / Wars & Conflicts / World War II.
SPORTS & RECREATION / Football.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Sports.
Genre: Biographies.

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East Grand Forks Campbell Library MH 796.332 BISSINGER 2022 (Text) 523802 Military History Available -


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