On Valor's Side
Edition: [1st ed.]
Publisher: Doubleday
Published: 1963
Place of publication: Garden City, N.Y
Language: eng
Number of pages: 364
Subjects: United States. Marine Corps. Division, 1st.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Regimental histories -- United States -- Marine Corps -- Division, 1st.; World War, 1939-1945 -- Campaigns -- Solomon Islands -- Guadalcanal Island.
Table of contents: title: An autobiographical account of an enlisted man's experiences in the First Marine Division from 1941 through January 1943.; title: Contents; title: Foreword; title: BOOK ONE In the Beginning Was the Left Foot i; title: ONE Sowing of the Dragon Seed 3; title: TWO The Sprouting of the Seed 18; title: THREE Miserable Dragons 38; title: FOUR Dragons, Booted and Spurred 58; title: FIVE Smoke and Fire of Dragons 79; title: SIX Into the Tents of the Nomads 100; title: SEVEN The Striking of the Tents 120; title: EIGHT In the Bogs of Verona 136; title: NINE Unfolding the Unknown 157; title: BOOK TWO Blood on the Rising Sun 177; title: TEN The Docks of Wellington 179; title: ELEVEN The Coo of the Cockatoo 209; title: TWELVE Death and Vulgarity 235; title: THIRTEEN Blood for Eleanor 265; title: FOURTEEN The Cloak of Mold 291; title: FIFTEEN The Living and the Dead 312; title: SIXTEEN The Gooney Bird Stare 335; title: SEVENTEEN Ragged Dragons 353; title: An Acknowledgment 363