Castner's Cutthroats (Saga of the Alaska Scouts)

Castner's Cutthroats (Saga of the Alaska Scouts) by Rearden, Jim. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9780935632934.

365 pages - 9.25X6.25 inches - "Few people know of the Aleutian compaign of World War II. The battle on Attu, one of the American-owned Aleutian Islands seized by the Japanese, was the second most costly American battle in the Pacific during that world war. It ranked only after Iwo Jima. The book not only chronicles that battle, but captures the reader with tales of the Alaska Scouts, commonly referred to as Castners Cutthroats. This is a novel of those men who made up this combat intelligence platoon - men like Talky Lloyd, Johnny Blackwolf, Bad-Shot Bill Jacobson, and Shorty the Bear Peerless....."