The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
de Buzz Bissinger
- Usado
- near fine
- Tapa dura
- Firmado
- First
- Estado
- Near Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0062879928
- ISBN 13
- 9780062879929
- Librería
-
Carrollton, Texas, United States
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New York: Harper, 2022. SIGNED. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with number line ending in 1. Signed by Buzz Bissinger on the publisher's bound-in page. page. The book is tight with solid hinges, good tips and cream boards. Light creases to the spine ends. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Black and white photos. Illustrated endpapers. The dust jacket is unclipped ($32.50) and Fine. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 461 pages. 6¼ x 9¼" tall.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. This is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.
When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as "The Mosquito Bowl."
Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in "The Mosquito Bowl" would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.
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- Librería
- Armadillo Alley Books (US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 4165
- Título
- The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
- Autor
- Buzz Bissinger
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Near Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- Fine
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- First Edition / First Printing
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- ISBN 10
- 0062879928
- ISBN 13
- 9780062879929
- Editorial
- Harper
- Lugar de publicación
- New York
- Fecha de publicación
- 2022
- Páginas
- 461
- Tamaño
- 6.25 x 9.25
- Palabras clave
- signed, World War II, sports, Okinawa, football, history, combat
- Catálogos del vendedor
- First Editions; Signed Books;
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