The Mosquito Bowl
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Instant New York Times Bestseller * Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation
"Buzz Bissinger's Friday Night Lights is an American classic. With The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too is…
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Twenty years ago, I read Buzz Bissinger's high school football classic Friday Night Lights, and I've read everything he's published ever since.
At first, it appeared The Mosquito Bowl, the name refers to a game played between two Marine units on Guadalcanal at the end of 1944, would be another sports rouser with WWII as the backdrop.
I quickly realized I had it backward. It's the story of young men at war: the families and dreams they left behind and the suffering they endured before, for far too many, death came for them, suddenly, painfully, senselessly.
Ultimately, it's…
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