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William Manchester

USA · WWII Pacific — memoir and biography

About

Marine veteran wounded on Okinawa. Also Churchill's biographer. Goodbye, Darkness is one of the great Pacific War memoirs.

Books in Database (2)

Goodbye, Darkness cover
Goodbye, Darkness 1980 · 401 pages

William Manchester's memoir of his time as a Marine in the Pacific, interwoven with a pilgrimage to the battlefields decades later.

Memoir
The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm cover
The Last Lion: Defender of the Realm 2012 · 1182 pages

The concluding volume of Manchester's monumental Churchill biography, covering 1940 to his death.

Events Covered

1942 Guadalcanal Campaign 1945 Battle of Okinawa 1940 Battle of Britain & The Blitz