Customer Review: I don't anyone will understand Tarawa or any of the WWII battles unless they were there. This book takes the reader right there and makes it very real. For another book about the Pacific Island wars, I highly recommend WALKING THROUGH FIRE: AN IWO JIMA SURVIVOR'S REMEMBRANCE which was written... more info
Customer Review: Very visual account of that battle in the Pacific. Another first-person account is WALKING THROUGH FIRE: AN IWO JIMA SURVIVOR'S REMEMBRANCE, about a Navy Radioman who was on that island and survived to tell about it. Walking Through Fire, An Iwo Jima Survivor's Remembrance
Customer Review: The 2943 invasion of Tarawa was a horror story. The freakish tides, the islands fortifications and a number of other factors made the Marines first major attack on the Gilbert Islands a blood bath. It is not a happy tale but it is told well and contains lessons that soldier and civilians alike... more info
Customer Review: Born in 1940, I lived a serene childhood during the War. Our hardships were rationing and blackouts. My like-age cousin in Southwestern Germany dodged bombs and tanks, lost her father somewhere on the Eastern Front and our great uncle when their town was overrun. Like her, I knew we were at war. Our... more info
Customer Review: An excellent book about the pivotal point in the US crusade across the pacific. An easy read with excellent pictures makes this great for the weekend historian. It was a book you should have. Great pictures that I have not seen before. However Amazon's service is something to be desired. The... more info
Customer Review: December 29th, 1980, I arrived at the same Marine Corps boot camp which welcomed EB Sledge nearly 40 years before. With the Old Breed (WTOB) makes it perfectly clear why the stress and hardship of the Marine Corps boot camp experience is necessary. Thankfully, my generation was spared the subsequent... more info
Customer Review: Eric Hammel, is an astute student of military history. He is the author of some thirty books about World War 2 in the Pacific theater. He also compiled a very useful chronology about the air war over Europe and North Africa titled "Air War Europa 1942-1945." Here he pens a terse and telling... more info
Customer Review: What Mr Sloan has done is detail out in a very readable style, the gruesome and bloody month long fight in 1944 to take the island of Peleliu. The book is intense and packed with details about the daily grind for the Marines on this massive chunk of rock that really had no need to be taken. He... more info
Customer Review: I just reread this book, about ten years after my first reading. It definitely lives up to its subtitle. Most impressive is the placing of the battle in its full context militarily and socially. Can't recommend too highly for a readable but detailed history.
Customer Review: Though there have been dozens of books written on Guadalcanal, Iwo Jima and Tarawa, the campaigns for Bougainville, New Georgia and Cape Gloucester have been poorly documented. Noted military historian Eric Hammel offers up this striking 'pictorial tribute' to the Marines in action. It's a... more info
