Customer Review: This excellent book puts closure to Eugene Sledge's horrific experiences at Peliliu and Okinawa as his unit is sent to China right after the war. Filled with interesting observations of daily life and misery there, Sledge puts a very human side to the story of war blending his own misery and those... more info
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: Simply put one of the best memoirs of war I've ever read. If you want the naked truth from his point of view (a view I agree with). It's shows his level of dedication to the people in the countries involved and too his own troops. He tears himself apart in this book his feelings are on every page.... more info
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: This is an excellent follow on to "An Army at Dawn". These books should be required reading in all high school history classes.
Atkinson gives you a view of the war's events from several different perspectives quoting official documents all the way to letters home. All in all a very... 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: 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
