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The Mosquito Bowl: A Game of Life and Death in World War II
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Sixty-five young Marines in WWII’s Pacific Theater, many of them top-level college and professional football players, feeling the tension and tedium in the waiting time before the Battle of Okinawa, play a brutal to-the-finish football game dubbed the “Mosquito Bowl.” Who they were, where they came from, those who survived the conflict and those who did not is an epic, poignant, unique tale of football, war, and the bravado of youth.
“Buzz Bissinger'sFriday NightLightsisan American classic. WithThe Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book toois 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 ofFriday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.
When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.As the nation...