War is Not Just for Heroes: World War II Dispatches and Letters of U.S. Marine Corps Combat Correspondent Claude R....
- ISBN-10
- 1611170672
- ISBN-13
- 9781611170672
- Category
- War correspondents
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Author
- Claude Richard Canup
Description
War Is Not Just for Heroes rescues the incredible true stories of one writer's life as a marine combat correspondent in the Pacific during World War II as shared through his dispatches, letters, diary entries, personal notes, and tapes.
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