Hello all. I'm a want to be student of the Pacific Theater and have been concentrating on some of the well known island battles. I've recently read...
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Okinawa by Robert Leckie
Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin
The Ghost Mountain Boys by James Campbell
One Square Mile of Hell (Tarawa) by John Wukovits
Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
The Pacifc 1941 - 1942 by Ian Toll
In Harms Way by Dean Stanton
And I think that's it. I've thoroughly enjoyed them all. The standard setter is With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge. It also made reading Islands of the Damned by Burgin more interesting because he was Sledge's Sgt and you got 2 different views of the same battles and conditions.
One Square Mile of Hell was simply amazing. You could almost hear the shells and screams as you read it.
The Ghost Mountain Boys is a book that you will remember. Even the hardest of the hard Marine showed respect to these Army National Guard men out of Michigan.
But you can see the type of books I like. Can someone recommend any others? I need a good book on Iwo Jima and one on Guadalcanal, that preferably read like With the Old Breed and not a tactical analysis from a historian's point of view. Flags of our Fathers is out. I hate to say it, but the movie really disapponted me.
Regards,
Joel
With the Old Breed by Eugene Sledge
Okinawa by Robert Leckie
Helmet For My Pillow by Robert Leckie
Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin
The Ghost Mountain Boys by James Campbell
One Square Mile of Hell (Tarawa) by John Wukovits
Pacific Alamo by John Wukovits
The Pacifc 1941 - 1942 by Ian Toll
In Harms Way by Dean Stanton
And I think that's it. I've thoroughly enjoyed them all. The standard setter is With the Old Breed, by Eugene Sledge. It also made reading Islands of the Damned by Burgin more interesting because he was Sledge's Sgt and you got 2 different views of the same battles and conditions.
One Square Mile of Hell was simply amazing. You could almost hear the shells and screams as you read it.
The Ghost Mountain Boys is a book that you will remember. Even the hardest of the hard Marine showed respect to these Army National Guard men out of Michigan.
But you can see the type of books I like. Can someone recommend any others? I need a good book on Iwo Jima and one on Guadalcanal, that preferably read like With the Old Breed and not a tactical analysis from a historian's point of view. Flags of our Fathers is out. I hate to say it, but the movie really disapponted me.
Regards,
Joel
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