{"product_id":"black-dragon-steven-mccloud-9781648430176","title":"Black Dragon: The Experience of a Marine Rifle Company in the Central Pacific","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eBlack Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e recounts the experience of a single Marine rifle company--2-F-23, or \"Fox\" Company--and its drive through the central Pacific in World War II. Author Steven D. McCloud, through painstaking research of battlefield reports and extensive interviews with surviving members of Fox Company, has reanimated the grueling, day-by-day slog through the Pacific theater through the eyes of the US Marines who endured it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis is the story of American teenagers who left home, many for the first time, trained together, and formed a team that held strong until, at last, those who survived tried to leave it all behind as they dispersed, returned home, and sought to build their lives. Decades later, Fox Company re-formed through correspondence and reunions and also welcomed McCloud into their midst by telling him their stories. McCloud took notes, chased down company reports and other documents to fill in the gaps, and carefully reconstructed their journey.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAs one member of Fox Company recalled after returning to Iwo Jima half a century later, \"I think the pilgrimage to Iwo has helped me conquer my black dragons--those bloody and stinking nightmares that made nightly uninvited visits for fifty-six years. My dreams were in color, predominantly bloody red. Those remaining are in black and white and shades of gray, not so violent and stinking. These I can live with.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eReaders who reveled in Stephen Ambrose's masterful oral history of E Company in the European theater will find similar heroism and heartbreak in the pages of \u003ci\u003eBlack Dragon\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steven McCloud\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1648430171\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781648430176\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Texas A\u0026amp;M University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/24\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 576\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 3.00lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.90h x 2.80w x 1.80d","brand":"Steven McCloud","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43990723854591,"sku":"9781648430176","price":55.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_a143c58d-a31a-4111-bd02-e54fdb352650.jpg?v=1683306304","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/black-dragon-steven-mccloud-9781648430176","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}