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But Not In Shame

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I had found this book in a library years ago and read it. Recently I decided I wanted a copy for my personal collection and found it through Amazon. It's an absolutely excellent book. What's more, the copy I received is in almost unbelievable condition, almost new. The book itself should be read by anyone wanting a different perspective on the beginnings of WWII, and should be read by anyone who prides themselves as a military historian or scholar.

It is to John Toland's tremendous credit that so much information about the Second World War has been collected for countless generations.

But Not In Shame represents Toland's incalculable hours of research, traveling throughout the former Pacific Theater not long after so many bitter battles had ended.

Unlike many early WWII scholars, Toland's writing style is surprisingly contemporary, comparable to current historical writers.

But Not In Shame is a volume of detailed anecdotes and play-by-play accounting of the America's desperate dawn days of WWII.

Much of Toland's writing centers around the Japanese invasion of the Philippines and the climax of Midway with great stories of the men and women at Pearl Harbor, Wake, Guam and the atrocities of the march from Bataan as well.

An excellent book that will provide readers with perhaps one of the best understandings of the events surrounding the Filipino-American retreat to Bataan and Corregidor and their subsequent fall.

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