Word: pratt
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Shock of Battle. According to Fletcher Pratt, Peleliu was the Marines' hardest battle. None of them was easy, though he calls the assault on Tinian "perfection." Pratt, one of the best of the civilian war analysts, wrote The Marines' War at the Marine Corps' request, but on three conditions, all granted: that he have full access to official Marine files and captured Japanese records; permission to interview eyewitnesses; complete freedom of opinion. The result is a fine service history written with clarity and intelligence, one that many Marines will welcome as an authoritative corrective to their...
...Author Pratt has told the Marines' story so simply and graphically that civilian readers will share the feel of battle, and so soundly that the book could serve as a text on amphibious warfare...
...Pratt has made good use of captured Japanese documents. The Marines' War is, to a lesser extent, also the Japanese defenders' war. If ever Japan's military schools re-open for business, their instructors will find here a succinct catalogue of Japanese army and navy mistakes. Says Pratt: "One is struck by the fact that the Japanese leaders, naval and military', were always waiting for somebody else to do something. ... In actual contacts, of course, much of the Japanese failure can be traced to the mystical belief that a man with Bushido and a knife...
Colt drove over to the Pratt home in Fredericksburg, piled the packages in the back of his station wagon and brought them back to the red brick museum in Richmond. When he recalls how casually he treated these treasures, he shudders...
When he unwrapped Mrs. Pratt's gifts, he found...