![]() ![]() Those notes form the backbone of what Navy Times said "has been called the best World War II memoir of an enlisted man." The rich tones of narrator George Wilson enhance the drama of this frank and astonishing chronicle. Against military policy, Sledge scribbled notes and jammed them into his copy of the New Testament. Casualties were extreme on both sides, and by the time the Americans had broken through at Okinawa, more than 62,000 Japanese soldiers were dead. Amidst oppressive heat and over land obliterated by artillery shells, the combat raged ferociously. On Peleliu and Okinawa the action was extremely fierce. Sledge's experience shows in this fascinating account of two of the most harrowing and pivotal island battles of the Pacific theater. Written in a vivid and objective voice, the. Sledge served with the First Marine Division during WWII, and his first-hand narrative is unsurpassed in its sincerity. He then vividly describes his participation in two seminal conflicts of the Pacific campaign: Peleliu and Okinawa. ![]() of war that I have ever read" by distinguished historian John Keegan. This modern classic of military history has been called "one of the most important personal accounts. ![]()
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