[katana]

Probably the best enlisted man's war memoir ever written, and from the perspective of a United States Marine Corps Rifleman, E.B. Sledge: With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa. HIGHLY recommend. The HBO series Pacific tried to do it justice and came close, IMHO, to succeeding.

[RJS1950]

Another memoir that is coequal with Sledge’s book is Islands of the Damned by R.V. Burgin who was Sledge’s squad leader. It is also a first hand account from a combat Marine’s point of view. It relates Burgin’s trek through New Britain, Peleliu, and Okinawa and provides further elaboration and insights of many of the incidents in Sledge’s book.