Bill Sloan, Author . Bantam $24.95 (432p) ISBN 978-0-553-80302-0
"Uncommon courage was a common virtue": this was said of Marines on another island, Iwo Jima. Texas journalist Sloan's excellent research, interviewing and journalistic prose will have readers of this moving book saying it of Wake Island,
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Bill Sloan, Author Prometheus Books $28.98 (255p) ISBN 978-1-57392-902-8
This overview comes from a tabloid insider: Sloan (JFK: Breaking the Silence) has been an editor for the National Enquirer and for the tabloid publisher Globe Communications. He thus displays empathy for the publications and their staff, capable...
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Bill Sloan, Author Taylor Publishing Company (TX) $19.95 (231p) ISBN 978-0-87833-833-7
As the 30th anniversary of JFK's assassination approaches, the books continue to multiply. This one isn't a necessary one, but there are a few good stories here, well told in a crisp journalistic manner (the author is a Dallas reporter). Sloan...
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Bill Sloan, Author Simon & Schuster $26 (400p) ISBN 978-0-7432-6009-1
The battle of Peleliu, though certainly not the bloodiest of the Pacific war, was a ghastly ordeal. The rugged hills of the tiny coral island were honeycombed with caves and bunkers whose determined Japanese defenders had to be pried from every nook
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Bill Sloan. Simon & Schuster, $28 (416p) ISBN 978-1-4391-9964-0
Sloan (The Ultimate Battle: Okinawa 1945) adds to his reputation as a chronicler of the mid-century American military experience with this account of the service men and women who fought the battles of Bataan and Corregidor in the half-year after...
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