{"product_id":"9780826223173-no-average-day","title":"No Average Day: The 24 Hours of October 24, 1944 (American Military Experience","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThe 24 Hours of October 24, 1944\u003cbr\u003eIn its telling of the events of October 24, 1944, \u003cem\u003eNo Average Day\u003c\/em\u003e proceeds hour by hour and incident by incident. The book eschews the conventional discourse of the war’s origins, its great battles, and the maneuvering of generals, admirals, and politicians. Instead, it directs its attention to ordinary individuals.\u003cbr\u003eOctober 24, 1944, is not a day of national remembrance. Yet, more Americans serving in World War II perished on that day than on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor, or on June 6, 1944, when the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, or on any other single day of the war. In its telling of the events of October 24, \u003ci\u003eNo Average Day \u003c\/i\u003eproceeds hour by hour and incident by incident. The book begins with Army Private First-Class Paul Miller’s pre-dawn demise in the Sendai #6B Japanese prisoner of war camp. It concludes with the death of Navy Seaman Second Class Wanza E. Matthews, moments before midnight, after the Japanese submarine \u003ci\u003eI-56 \u003c\/i\u003eattacked his ship off New Guinea. The sinking of the hellship \u003ci\u003eArisan Maru\u003c\/i\u003e—a lesser-known tragedy of the war—bookends and weaves through the two-dozen selected other incidents.  \u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eNo Average Day \u003c\/i\u003eeschews the conventional discourse of the war’s origins, its great battles, and the maneuvering of generals, admirals, and politicians. Instead, it directs its attention to ordinary individuals—clerks, radio operators, cooks, sailors, machinist mates, riflemen, and pilots and their air crews. These are men, perhaps a reader’s brother, father, or neighbor, who chose to serve their country and soon found themselves in a terrifying and otherworldly place. There, described in relatable terms, the men hunch their shoulders against the cold, wipe grit from their foreheads, or pen a letter home minutes before drawing their last breath. \u003ci\u003eNo Average Day \u003c\/i\u003ereveals the vastness of the war as it reaches past the beaches in France and jungles in the South Pacific, to the villages, placid bays, and forested mountainsides across the globe where the war also raged.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55418555826550,"sku":"9780826223173","price":28.89,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_31061340.jpg?v=1742861447","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780826223173-no-average-day","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}