A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island: Free Audiobook and Listening Guide
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island by Robert James Cressman: the LibriVox audiobook summary, 8 original MP3 tracks, 2:36:43 running time and a link to listen.
A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island, credited to Robert James Cressman, is available as a LibriVox volunteer audiobook. This guide identifies the recording, its source summary and its audio tracks.
About the work
The LibriVox catalogue summary, preserved with the recording, reads:
LibriVox recording of A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island by Robert James Cressman. Read in English by Aaron Bennett. It is Monday, 8 December 1941. On Wake Island, a tiny sprung paper-clip in the Pacific between Hawaii and Guam, Marines of the 1st Defense Battalion are starting another day of the backbreaking war preparations that have gone on for weeks. Out in the triangular lagoon formed by the islets of Peale, Wake, and Wilkes, the huge silver Pan American Airways Philippine Clipper flying boat roars off the water bound for Guam. The trans-Pacific flight will not be completed. - Summary by Robert Cressman
Recording facts
- Recording title: A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island
- Author credits: Robert James Cressman
- Language: English
- Original MP3 tracks: 8
- Listed recording duration: 2:36:43
Catalogue topics
- wwii
- battle in the pacific
- usmc
- wake island
Track guide
- 01 - Chapter 1, Part 1 - A Magnificent Fight: Marines in the Battle for Wake Island — 28:11
- 02 - Chapter 1, Part 2 - Sidebars — 6:57
- 03 - Chapter 2 - ‘Humbled-by Sizeable Casualties’ — 18:12
- 04 - Chapter 3 - ‘Still No Help’ — 28:35
- 05 - Chapter 4 - ‘All Hands Have Behaved Splendidly’ — 19:00
- 06 - Chapter 5, Part 1 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ — 16:51
- 07 - Chapter 5, Part 2 - ‘This Is As Far As We Go’ — 20:58
- 08 - Chapter 6 - ‘A Difficult Thing To Do’ — 17:59
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