“Because Manchester referred to himself as a sergeant in the book, in command of a “line” unit, readers would have no way of knowing that he was a corporal, and did not serve with a line company or assault platoon, but served as a map keeper and runner at battalion headquarters. The book is part fiction, part memoir”

First Marshall, now this. Didn’t makes you wonder what else we think we know about WWII was lies…

The trouble with using Manchester as a reference is that he was a serial liar. The book is a serial lie as near the end he admits that it was not really autobiographical even though on reading it one was led to believe it was a personal memoir.

In addition if one can get a copy of Manchester’s first edition on MacArthur (American Caesar), one reads a melodramatic rendition of Arthur MacArthur’s attacking the confederate positions uphill, fighting not only the fire raining down, but the nearly impenetrable kudzu vines that covered the hill side. The only problem with that scenario is that kudzu was not introduced into the USA until decades later. Later editions were corrected.