As we remember America´s involvement in World War II, we recognize that the ranks of our surviving veterans of that war are rapidly thinning. Yet, the successes of movies like "Saving Private Ryan" and books like Stephen E. Ambrose´s "Citizen Soldiers," James Bradley´s and Ron Powers´"Flags of Our Fathers" and Tom Brokaw´s "Greatest Generation" series suggest that even as the number of survivors of the war decreases daily, interest in and an appreciation for their contributions and sacrifices have only increased in the public´s eye. "Pogiebait´s War" is an unstinting and eye-opening look at the tedium, terror, anger, pride and occasional humor that marked the life of the average U.S. Marine and his buddies in the Pacific Theater. The product of three years of extensive research, it combines archival source materials with first-person interviews and is extensively illustrated, including many never-before-published photographs. "Pogiebait´s War" depicts why veterans of America´s last "good war" could justly say, like Pogiebait McCall, that they "lived a lifetime in four years."
