John Hersey

Find out how war smells, looks, and feels to fighting men, and how courage grows from their desperate will to live. These are five true stories of World War II. 1. Survival 2. The Battle of the River 3. Nine Men on a Four-Man Raft 4. Borie's Last Battle 5. Front Seats at Sea War A famous war correspondent takes readers aboard John F. Kennedy's doomed PT-109, into the horror of Guadalcanal, and on onto a death raft in the Southwest Pacific....