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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II

By Buzz Bissinger
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$32.50
By Buzz Bissinger
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author of Friday Night Lights tells the epic true story of a football game played by U.S. Marines just months before they would face one of the bloodiest battles of WWII. The bravado of youth and the brutality of war are on display in this fascinating and powerful narrative.

Instant New York Times Bestseller · Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation

“Buzz Bissinger’s Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.” — John Grisham

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of Friday Night Lights...

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