Islands of the Damned A Marine at war in the Pacific By RV Burgin Audiobook
A United States Marine & American author. as a young man, he served in the Pacific Theater during World War II.
Burgin was the author of the memoir Islands of the Damned: A Marine at War in the Pacific (with William Marvel).[1][2] Burgin is portrayed in the HBO miniseries The Pacific by Martin McCann.[3][4] Burgin himself appears in documentary footage during the miniseries.[5]
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A Helmet for my pillow by Robert Leckie
A Helmet for my pillow by Robert Leckie.
Helmet for My Pillow is the personal narrative written by World War II United States Marine Corps veteran, author, and military historian Robert Leckie. First published in 1957, the story begins with Leckie's enlisting in the United States Marines shortly after the 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor.
According to his wife Vera, Leckie was inspired to write the book in 1951 after seeing South Pacific on Broadway and walking out halfway through it. He said, "I have to tell the story of how it really was. I have to let people know the war wasn't a musical.
The HBO mini-series The Pacific (2010) was adapted in large part from Helmet for My Pillow, along with Eugene Sledge's With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa, and the personal story of Medal of Honor recipient Gunnery Sergeant John Basilone.[2][3]
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The Scarlet Plague by Jack London Audiobook
The Scarlet Plague by Jack London Audiobook. The Scarlet Plague is a post-apocalyptic fiction novel by American writer Jack London, originally published in London Magazine in 1912.
Plot summary
The story takes place in 2073, sixty years after an uncontrollable epidemic, the Red Death, has depopulated the planet. James Smith is one of the survivors of the era before the scarlet plague hit and is still left alive in the San Francisco area, and he travels with his grandsons Edwin, Hoo-Hoo, and Hare-Lip. His grandsons are young and live as primeval hunter-gatherers in a heavily depopulated world. Their intellect is limited, as are their language abilities. Edwin asks Smith, whom they call "Granser", to tell them of the disease alternately referred to as scarlet plague, scarlet death, or red death.
Smith recounts the story of his life before the plague, when he was an English professor in the then future year of 2013.
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Midworld by Alan Dean Foster: Full Unabridged Audiobook
Midworld by Alan Dean Foster: Full Unabridged Audiobook
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Call of the Wild by Jack London Full Audiobook
Call of the Wild by Jack London Full Audiobook
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Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Audiobook
Starship Troopers by Robert Heinlein Audiobook
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Mid-Flinx Audiobook by Alan Dean Foster
Mid-Flinx Audiobook by Alan Dean Foster
Part 2 of Midworld
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