GI Jive 
Subtitle: An Army Bandsman in World War II
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Published: November 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780813190099
Subjects: American history: Second World War; Asian / Middle Eastern history: Second World War; Biography: general; European history: First World War; Military History - World War II; History; Biography / Autobiography; Music; Europe; Philippines; USA; Composers & Musicians - Jazz; Genres & Styles - Jazz; Military; Military - World War II
First sentence: I awakened to the sound of a file rasping a razor's edge on a trench knife blade; a soldier was hunched under a dim circle of light cast by the red lamp on my ship's troop deck.