More than 50 years after his victory in the Pacific, the World War II United States Marine is vividly alive again in Gyrene. The scope and details record, analyze, and interpret the personal and cultural history of the enlisted men of America's celebrated fighting force which swept through the South and Central Pacific.Gyrene examines the pleasant and the unpleasant, serious and not so, the ordinary and the exceptional. This citizen-soldier is presented as having human frailties but is simultaneously different and special in the eyes of himself and others-capable of, and willing against the...