Cover Image

The mosquito bowl : a game of life and death in World War II / Buzz Bissinger.

"When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity. As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps. Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bissinger, Buzz, 1954- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing, [2022]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal.
World War, 1939-1945 > Campaigns > Japan > Okinawa Island.
Football > United States > History.
Football players > United States > Biography.
United States. > Marine Corps > Biography.
United States. > Marine Corps.
Football.
Football players.
Military campaigns.
Japan > Okinawa Island.
Solomon Islands > Guadalcanal.
United States.
Biographies.
History.
Table of Contents:
  • Prologue
  • McLaughry
  • Everybody's watching
  • Schreiner
  • Butkovich
  • Land of the free
  • The army way
  • The letter
  • Murphy
  • Odette
  • Football is war
  • Separate and unequal
  • Remember the McKean
  • Sunday sheet
  • Bauman
  • Forget me not
  • Committed to the deep
  • The patrol
  • Pen pal
  • Not a damn thing
  • Temptation
  • Millimeter
  • March of the crabs
  • The Mosquito Bowl
  • Bound for hell
  • Buckner
  • April fool
  • Abandon ship
  • The tortoise
  • The little girl
  • Return to sender
  • A thousand ants
  • At all costs
  • Crazy for revenge
  • Carry on
  • Last stand
  • Regret to inform
  • Why?
  • Three stars
  • Counting the days
  • Cessation of hostilities
  • Silence
  • Epilogue.

Similar Items