Sergeant Murphy is about a young Marine who joined the Corps in 1939 to become a career man. Then came the war, and the book follows Sergeant John C. Murphy of the 1st Marine Division in the battles of Tulagi, Edson's Ridge on Guadalcanal, Cape Gloucester, Peleliu and finally Okinawa. Murphy was in the thick of the action in all of the battles, and he was wounded several times.
Having read accounts of the battles from war records to reminiscences...