ISBN: 9780062879929
Editorial: Harper
Autor: Bissinger, Buzz
Año de edición: 2022
N° Paginas: 480
Tipo de pasta: Pasta dura
Descripción: Amazon.com ReviewAn Amazon Best Book of September 2022:Bissinger’s latest hearkens back to an entirely different era in college football than the one we know today. But America was different back then, too. He first draws out the characters and backgrounds of key college football stars—the sport was at the height of its popularity—who would go on to fight in World War II. Then he takes them to the Pacific theater, and to Christmas Eve of 1944 when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments fielded star-studded teams in a game dubbed the Mosquito Bowl. Finally, he moves to the bloody battle of Okinawa. War is often used as a metaphor for sports, but rarely do the two actually intersect—Bissinger goes far beyond metaphor, deftly revealing the humans engaged in these pursuits, making us care for them. Along the way, he also reveals the glory and the blemishes of the era in a book that builds steam as it goes, setting these young men, nearly just boys, at the unscrolling edge of history. —Chris Schluep, Amazon EditorInstant New York Times Bestseller“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John GrishamAn extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.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 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war – the invasion of Okinawa—their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.When the trash-talking between the 4th and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal. The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as “The Mosquito Bowl.”Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in “The Mosquito Bowl” would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not. It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America’s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.Review“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham“Stephen Crane famously discovered ‘the rage of conflict’ while watching a college football game. For Buzz Bissinger, football is no metaphor; it is the way into one of the bloodiest battles of World War II. Deeply researched, told with extraordinary empathy and verve, The Mosquito Bowl will break your heart.” — Nathaniel Philbrick, National Book Award winning author of In the Heart o
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