I'm Staying with My Boys: The Heroic Life of Sgt. John Basilone, USMC by Jim Proser, Jerry Cutter

Pre-Loved Hardcover

I'm Staying With My Boys is a firsthandlook inside the life of one of the greatest heroes of the Greatest Generation. Sgt. John Bsilone held off three thousand Japanese troops at Guadalcanal after his 15 member unit was reduced to three men. At Iwo Jima he single-handedly destroyed an enemy blockhouse, allowing his unit to capture an airfield. Minutes later he was killed by an enemy artillery round. He was the only Marine in Wolr War II to have received the Medal of Honor, the Navy Cross and a Purple Heart, and is arguably the most famous Marine of all time.

I'm Staying With My Boys is the only familty-authorized biography of Basilone, and it features photographs never efore published. distinctive among military biographies, the story is told in the first person, allowing readers to experience his transformation, forged in the horrors of battle, from aimless youth to the war hero known as "Manila Joe."