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Aleutian Echoes (Lanternlight Library)

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When america entered World War II in 1941, Charles Bradley enlisted in the army. An avid skier and mountaineer with a degree in geology, he quickly found himself some of the first members of the new 10th Mountain Division, the only unit of the U.S. Army established to train men in mountain combat. Soon, Bradley used to be training candidates for a potential ground assault on Japan and in a new theater for mountain warfare: the magnificent but potentially life-threatening Aleutian Islands.

Bradley’s military career kept him from the front lines of the war, but he and his companions had their own battles with loneliness and fatigue, with Aleutian weather and terrain, and with the military brass. The Axis powers were real enough, but the immediate enemy used to be the environment. It used to be Bradley’s job, now on assignment with the North Pacific Combat School, to lend a hand teach his trainees the skills of survival and mobility under conditions that included rugged terrain, glaciers, fierce winds, heavy rains and snow storms, and the specter of avalanches.

Each story of war of words with that rugged environment is balanced by one of discovery and awe. The Aleutians might be dangerous, but they were also an unspoiled realm for adventure and fascination. Soldier Bradley also grew as an artist; his interest in the natural history and geography of the islands is reflected in his paintings of what he saw near his posts, first at Unalaska and later at Adak. Additionally it is reflected in his honest, insightful prose.  Bradley is a author with his own voice, his own clear way of conveying how recruits struggle or how ravens play.

Aleutian Echoes is one man’s carefully observed, occasionally wry memoir of natural wonders and unnatural challenges.

 

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