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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. 1st ed., 1st printing ; xxii, 296 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm ISBN 9780786867837, 9780786886685, 0786867833, 0786886684 OCLC 47045079 LCCN 2001039077 LC D736 .D74 2001 Dewey 940.530922 ; white and tan cloth in photographic dust jacket ; From the sinking decks of a navy cruiser to the cockpit of a doomed B-25 bomber, Ronald J. Drez takes us to the front lines of World War II. Through Drez's gripping narrative style, we meet twelve men, all ordinary soldiers, and learn what the war was like through their eyes, experiencing their own 'twenty-five yards of war.' The men in these pages represent all branches of the military who were sent on impossible missions, where they witnessed triumphs and tragedies. As a result of Drez's ten years of research and over 1,400 interviews, Twenty-Five Yards of War is a tribute to all of the soldiers who fought in World War II-those who walked away with amazing stories to tell, and those who did not make it home. ; Drawing on the recollections of twelve men, an oral history of the Second World War provides a soldier's view of combat in both the European and Pacific theaters, from the D-Day invasion at Normandy to being bombed by Japanese pilots over Midway ; Contents: The Halsey Doolittle raid, April 18, 1942 : Sgt. Robert C. Bourgeois -- The Battle of Midway, June 4, 1942 : Ensigns George Gay and Albert Earnest -- Tonolei Harbor and Kahili, October 16-17, 1943 : Lt. Jack Bolt, USMC -- Betio, Tarawa Atoll, November 21, 1943 : Pvt. James Russell, U.S.M.C. -- The invasion of Normandy, June 6, 1944 : Pvt. Kenneth Russell, 1st Sgt. Leonard Lomell -- The Battle of the Philippine Sea, June 19-20, 1944 : Lt. (j.g.) Arthur Abramson, U.S.N. -- The Battle of the Bulge, Lanzerath, Belgium, December 16, 1944 : 1st Lt. Lyle Bouck -- Namkwan Harbor, China, January 23, 1945 : Dr. Eugene B. Fluckey U.S.N. -- Death Valley, Iwo Jima, February 25, 1945 : PFC Jay Rebstock, U.S.M.C. -- The sinking of USS Indianapolis, July 30, 1945 : Seaman 2/c Harold Eck ; FINE/FINE. Book.