Goodbye, Darkness: A Memoir of the Pacific War by Manchester, William Raymond - 1980

New York: Little, Brown & Company, 1980. Book Club (BCE/BOMC). Hardcover. Very Good/Fair. Type: Hardback Hardcover BCE BOok in Very Good Condition with a Fair Dust Jacket protected in archival sleeve. b/w in-text illustrations, maps, chronology on endpapers. Manchester's personal account of his experiences in the Pacific in World War II, which included Tarawa, Guadacanal, and Iwo Jima. He brings home the misery and horror of combat and what it is like to fight and be wounded and die in torment in modern battle. Bound in blue quarter cloth with dark blue outlined title panel on spine, gilt titled within. light tan boards, quite clean and unmarked, a scuff to lower edge near blue cloth; binding is tight, solid, square, with end bands, sharp corners. Internals spotless, unmarked, no creases. 401 pages. 6.5 x 9.5 inches. 1980, Little, Brown & Company, New York.