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Sid Phillips knew he was a long way from his home in Mobile, Alabama, when he plunged into the jungles of Guadalcanal in August 1942. A mortarman with the same company of the 1st Marine Division as Helmet for My Pillow author Robert Leckie, Sid was a seventeen-year-old kid when he entered combat. By the time he returned home some two years later, the island fighting on Guadalcanal and Cape Gloucester had turned him into a man and an Old Timer by Marine standards. In this true story, Sid recalls his encounters with icons like Chesty Puller, General Vandergrift, Eleanor Roosevelt, and his boyhood friend Eugene Sledge, author of With the Old Breed. He remembers fighting in the battle of the Tenaru (Alligator Creek), the struggle for Henderson Field, bombardments by Japanese battleships, the brutality of the tropics, and the haunting notion of being surrounded and expendable. This is the story of how Sid stood shoulder to shoulder with his Marine brothers to discover the strength and faith necessary to survive the dark, early days of World War II in the Pacific.

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"For anyone who cares abou the human dimension of war---its cost and its heroism---Sid Phillips' book is a must-[listen].-- ""Ken Burns"" ""For anyone who cares about the human dimension of war-- its cost and its heroism-- Sid Phillip's book is a must read."" -- ""Ken Burns, Emmy Award-winning filmmaker"" ""Like his life-long friend, Eugene Sledge, Sid Phillips speaks to us in these enchanting memoirs in his natural voice, engaging and modest, full of insight and intelligence, but ever alert to the lighter side of even the most dismal human circumstances. And like any great story teller, he leaves you wishing to hear a great deal more."" -- ""Richard B. Frank, author of Guadalcanal: The Definitive Account of the Landmark Battle"" ""We have an extraordinary opportunity now to recognize perhaps the key player, if there is one, if there's only one key player, he might be at the very top of the pyramid, ...a native of Mobile, Alabama, a man who appears over and over in our series: ...Dr. Sid Phillips."" -- ""Tom Hanks, executive producer of The Pacific"""

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Dr. Sid Phillips enlisted in the United States Marine Corps the day after Pearl Harbor because the Marines promised to put him eyeball to eyeball with the Japanese. Two years later, he came home a hero. Together, Sid and his brothers in the legendary 1st Marine Division won the first epic victory of the war, saved Australia, and stopped the Japanese juggernaut in the Pacific. Today, Sid is a figurehead for the World War II generation, having become internationally known after his role in Ken Burns's documentary The War and the Tom Hanks/Steven Spielberg/Gary Goetzman miniseries The Pacific. Dan John Miller is an American actor and musician. In the Oscar-winning Walk the Line, he starred as Johnny Cash's guitarist and best friend, Luther Perkins, and has also appeared in George Clooney's Leatherheads and My One and Only, with Renee Zellweger. An award-winning audiobook narrator, Dan has garnered multiple Audie Award nominations, winning for The Wrecking Crew by Kent Hartman; has twice been named a Best Voice by AudioFile magazine; and has received several AudioFile Golden Earphones Awards and a Listen-Up Award from Publishers Weekly. He has narrated books by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Philip Roth as well as by Pat Conroy, Andre Dubus III, John Green, Nora Roberts, and Dean Koontz. Dan lives in the Detroit, Michigan, area with his wife, Tracee Mae, and their daughter, Frances Rose.

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