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Jordan, Jonathan W
The Wall Street journal. Eastern edition, 10/2015Newspaper Article
The careers of novelists such as James Michener ("Tales of the South Pacific"), Norman Mailer ("The Naked and the Dead") and James Jones ("The Thin Red Line") were born in the Pacific's scarlet tides, while chroniclers such as John Toland ("The Rising Sun") and Samuel Eliot Morison, the U.S. Navy's unofficial historian, left their marks narrating the big picture of America's struggle against the empire of Japan. Mr. Toll writes of one Japanese soldier's shock at the first sight of comrades he helped evacuate from Bougainville Island: "Hardly human beings, they were just skin and bones dressed in military uniform, thin as bamboo sticks.
