From the battlefield
Subtitle: dispatches of a World War II marine
By: Dan Levin.
Publisher: Naval Institute Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Annapolis, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 133
Subjects: Levin, Dan.; United States. Marine Corps -- Biography.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Pacific Area.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Personal narratives, American.; War correspondents -- United States -- Biography.
Description: As a war memoir this short book combines a high order of combat journalism with poetry composed in pauses in the midst of battle, notebook writings too personal to have become dispatches, and a compelling narrative that binds these threads together. It differs from many war memoirs in its reflective look at the imperatives of war, its struggle for meaning, and its final affirmative conclusions.