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Instant New York Times Bestseller \u00b7 Winner of the General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award from the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation<\/p>\n

\u201cBuzz Bissinger\u2019s\u00a0Friday Night\u00a0Lights\u00a0is\u00a0an American classic. With\u00a0The Mosquito Bowl, he is back with a true story even more colorful and profound. This book too\u00a0is destined to become a classic. I devoured it.\u201d \u2014\u00a0John Grisham<\/p>\n

An extraordinary, untold story of the Second World War in the vein of Unbroken and The Boys in the Boat, from the author of\u00a0Friday Night Lights and Three Nights in August.<\/p>\n

When the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, college football was at the height of its popularity.\u00a0\u00a0As the nation geared up for total war, one branch of the service dominated the aspirations of college football stars: the United States Marine Corps.\u00a0Which is why, on Christmas Eve of 1944, when the 4th and 29th Marine regiments found themselves in the middle of the Pacific Ocean training for what would be the bloodiest battle of the war \u2013 the invasion of Okinawa\u2014their ranks included one of the greatest pools of football talent ever assembled: Former All Americans, captains from Wisconsin and Brown and Notre Dame, and nearly twenty men who were either drafted or would ultimately play in the NFL.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

When the trash-talking between the 4th\u00a0and 29th over who had the better football team reached a fever pitch, it was decided: The two regiments would play each other in a football game as close to the real thing as you could get in the dirt and coral of Guadalcanal.\u00a0\u00a0The bruising and bloody game that followed became known as \u201cThe Mosquito Bowl.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

Within a matter of months, 15 of the 65 players in \u201cThe Mosquito Bowl\u201d\u00a0would be killed at Okinawa, by far the largest number of American athletes ever to die in a single battle. The Mosquito Bowl is the story of these brave and beautiful young men, those who survived and those who did not.\u00a0\u00a0It is the story of the families and the landscape that shaped them. It is a story of a far more innocent time in both college athletics and the life of the country, and of the loss of that innocence.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

Writing with the style and rigor that won him a Pulitzer Prize and have made several of his books modern classics, Buzz Bissinger takes us from the playing fields of America\u2019s campuses where boys played at being Marines, to the final time they were allowed to still be boys on that field of dirt and coral, to the darkest and deadliest days that followed at Okinawa.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Publisher \u200f : \u200e Harper; First Edition (September 13, 2022)
Language \u200f : \u200e English
Hardcover \u200f : \u200e 480 pages
ISBN-10 \u200f : \u200e 0062879928
ISBN-13 \u200f : \u200e 978-0062879929
Item Weight \u200f : \u200e 1.4 pounds
Dimensions \u200f : \u200e 6 x 1.34 x 9 inches <\/p>\n

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